Revolution Diabolique

Story/Plot: In Revolution: Diabolique, you take on the role of a person capable of summoning demons during the time of the French Revolution. Sounds promising? Unfortunately, it isn't. The first thing is the world building. If demons exist, and can be summoned, then this would have an impact on the world building...which doesn't happen here. For that matter, your exploration of the demon world is rather short as well; this literally begs for more than was given. As it is, the game seems to show you as the only one...which is fair enough, I guess since it would make writing easier. It doesn't help the romance options and other characters are flat; a lot of people play it for the romance stuff. Unfortunately, that is rather threadbare here. However, this game also suffers what I call the Choice of Games formula. Play enough of them, and they start to get a same feeling. Now, good writing can obscure that, but that isn't the case here. This actually counts as a big strike f...

"I don't care what happens to these people." - This is a quote from Dorothy Heydt, in reference to the failure of a work to give one a compelling reason to give a damn. This game, quite frankly, lacks a compelling reason to give a damn. Even ignoring the fact that much of the stats screen uses French words, (with the author just assuming, for some unknown and unknowable reason, that the reader will either be able to grasp their meaning via an innate knowledge of French, or via context) even ignoring the fact that the book hedges so closely to historical events that it gives itself no time to breathe, and even ignoring the fact that this stolidly mediocre game has a price tag well in excess of better games by choice of games - even ignoring all these glaring flaws, the author commits the deadly sin of failing to make the reader care much about the characters, or what happens to them. I suppose if one innately loves France, for whatever reason, one might care what happens to the French m...

Well If you want a "game" then this is probably one of the closest to that I've read in quiet a while. Its all choices, and in the beginning almost all of the choices are blind (ie you have no idea what they are going to do how they relate to the game at hand) As you progress through the game, you start getting updates about whats currently going on Politically (while I am assuming your choices probably affect that, Im not certian. I supported the monarchy at every chance, but they were one of the first wiped out.) And while the political story is playing out, with or without you assistance and input, you are constantly having to choose how you want to study to improve what aspects of your skill with demons. And the rub there is that it of course costs money,... which you do not have an infinetly supply of, nor did I find anyway to earn more. Also I only ever met one of the possible RO's and her gender was preset. While you can choose your background with her (how you knew her, ...

Congratulations Chris Conley you had the French Revolution and demons and you still managed to make a bad game. Do not buy! There are like a dozen quagmires in the story that lead to unending loops, spend 8$ on anything else.

A lot happens in the time-frame of this game, but none of it happens to you it seems. I did a whole play-through where anything of note happened "off-screen" and was summarised in what felt like a history textbook fashion. My play-through consisted of a boring series of meaningless events that were mostly just stat checks. The ending came and it felt like I had done absolutely nothing the entire time. The rival also feels super unnecessary and mainly serves as a plot point that ends up going nowhere. The romances were also incredibly lacklustre. Overall the game was really boring, repetitive and felt like it went nowhere, especially if you know the least bit of French history. I like to give COG games a chance but this was really disappointing.

dont buy this, the "story" it offers is very poor and not entertaining. dont get fooled by the word count, on average words in a playthrough you'll only experience one tenth of the word count give or take. the only reason i have this many hours in it is cuz afk. its a waste of your money.

There isn't enough depth to fully develop the fantasy side of this story or the historical side, both struggle to provide compelling reasons to maintain the reader's interest. The characters are similarly two-dimensional. It feels almost as if the author of this story got bored with their own creation and after the first chapter just gave up on it.

[b]Révolution Diabolique[/b] By Chris Conley [b]”No one at the table seems particularly enthusiastic about your plan. But lacking any serious proposals from others, it is eventually agreed upon, and the meeting moves on.[/b] [b]It’s a disaster.”[/b] I saw a derivation of the above quote so… many… times. Some titles like wearing their stat systems out on their sleeves, while some wear sleeves and ruffles and powder makeup. Révolution Diabolique is the latter. I think Marie-Antoinette once famously said, “Let them read code”. But probably in French, not English. [b]General Story:[/b] Welcome to revolutionary-era France, where you choose what sort of character you are and how you’ll affect the fledgling world of democracy. Oh, and you summon demons. While there isn’t much dialogue in the game, the majority of it takes place in sort of episodic side stories. Intermissions are actually periods where you learn a little bit about the alt-history revolution, and make d...

Good start, but where is Napoleon? The story focuses only on the player, not Napoleon. Too short of a game, and NO NAPOLEON.