VERSUS: The Lost Ones

I found this game to be interesting up to the point where they bagan to charge additaonal cash for opening more powers or content in the game play. SO the base price you pay for this interactive story is NOT all you have to pay for for the entire experiance. SOME warning would be nice, before purchasing what I thought was a compleate game. Thought I should post this so some people could know.

Absolutely the weakest interactive novel from this studio that I've played. It is more focused on gender issues than plot, and it shows. The Mysterious Alien Being is shown as transgender for no reason at all, with all the pronouns (Hir, Ze etc.) when NOTHING indicates its gender or lack thereof (based off a single short encounter)! We get to know that the main protagonist had "freedom to experience their sexuality without restricting gender roles", that's very profound I think, but boring to mention. I'm to play a game, not entertain in gender studies, thank you. The number of remarks about gender is staggering and off-putting. That's too heavy handed. Plot... revolves around biggest cliches in SciFi ever. Defend your world from aliens, ok. Standard, but sensible. Go to a planet that holds a mysterious mortal combat tournament between Good and Evil where contestants are from all the galaxy. Now, this is cliche, contrived and childish. There was an old He-Man episode with a similar p...

This new series... i dont know what to make of it really. It feels far to abstract and pulp sci-fi for my liking. The terms he uses, the world building he has done... it just dosnt work for me. I loved the hero rise series 'a lot', but this new project by Zach is just... well its disappointing. Story wise its no inspiring at all, and the romance's are simply handed to you, you dont earn them. Far to many muti page narrative dumps, with few choices in between. The whole thing feels padded... with little progress being made. It dosnt feel like anything special happens because my character is one thing or another... at least nothing substantial. The mechanics for this project are more complex then hero rise, but I don't feel thats a good thing in this case. The stats are presented more as a puzzle for achievement's then as a representation of character development. The fact this project was designed specificity to run in series has greatly detracted from the quality as it doesn't feel ...

A lot of text dumps with made up words followed by a choice that usually doesn't lead anywhere. Pretty disappointing. Also I should mention that in the middle of the game it pulls a Dragon Age: Inquisition and asks you to purchase DLC to gain an upper hand.

Wouldn't recommend at all. The first hour or so is spent on nothing but throwing made up names at you and very abstract poorly explained sci-fi things. The story can't move forward because they constantly try and fail to explain things like some kind of a Communist society where everyone is forced to think and feel the same and everything being made of mirrors as a metaphor...because. It doesn't explain what species the main character is supposed to be, what kind of a planet they are on or anything of that sorts. It's simply weird and not very coherent. Almost as if this all was randomly generated. They use made up pronouns like ''ze'' and it comes off incredibly forced. As if they have some sort of a mandatory tumblr propaganda quota to fulfill. Weird pronouns - check. All soldiers are female - check. Men are medics - check. Socialist themes - check. It's another one of these.

This novel was a fantastic read for anyone who enjoys alot of backstory ,which will keep you hooked for hours. I would like to see the rest of the books to come out as there are so many questions i am dieing to find an answer to.

It reads like average fan-fiction. The author gives Shakespeare a run for his money at making up words.

So, the beginning of this was a pretty rough read -- in fact, I would go as far as to say my impressions leading up to the second half were just plain bad. As others have pointed out, the worldbuilding seemed hamfisted and awkward, the delivery of the made-up words like "blerg" and "furking" was anything but seamless (sadly, this problem never improved) and there were tons and tons of exposition drops about stuff that, to be quite frank, I simply didn't care about. With those complaints being noted, however, I did find myself enjoying this a lot more during the second half. The characters began to grow on me, the writer doing a pretty good job fleshing them out in the end, and I actually enjoyed the political intrigue (despite the narrative hammering in exactly what sort of effects your decisions will have). The writing also seemed to improve as the story went on, though I may have just gotten used to it. I only wish the worldbuilding could have been more interesting; to improve...

There's alot about this game I didn't like. The game's premise included stealing powers and invading thoughts, but in practice that felt lackluster. There were very few powers to absorb and they didn't feel like I'd gained anything when I did it. In fact it led to 'memorywalking' which led me on a story within a story, rather than the one I bought. A story within a story I had a hard time caring for because it was told as a dream rather than your action. In a dream I wasn't a person crafting or even participating in a story. I felt like someone viewing someone else's story. In fact even the story outside of the dream felt that way, being tugged along by other characters. Your character didn't feel like he gained anything from his power to absorb, he starts with the power to shoot lazers of all things. He is an alien, and that made it harder for me to like him, especially when him and everyone else because his writing involved so many new words and lingo and ideals that I didn't really ...

This was a fantastic game. So many different choices across the way, with an interesting political goal calculation mechanic I've never seen elsewhere. Everytime I made a choice, I immediately wanted to see what it would be like if I had done it the other way around. I especially enjoyed all the power options in the game, and way they would work together. The only think I'm upset about is that it ended-come on! I need more closure than that! Actually I want more content. Yes it gave me a lot of great content, but the story is so addictive I desperately need more. Can't wait for the next book/episode/game whatever you want to call it. Definitely buy this game! Side note, I never got the Worning bird DLC, even though they offered it here, and in game, because I felt it unnecessary. It's more fun in my opinion to figure it out on your own, without the game telling you in advance which choice is best for your stats. Still I might get it for a later playthrough, I'm not sure.