Along the Edge

Along The Edge is a choice-based visual novel where you follow Daphne Delatour, a young woman who inherits her grandmother's home and has to deal with the complicated legacy and supernatural rumors surrounding her family. As you play the game, you make choices that shape the way Daphne's story plays out. You can choose how Daphne reacts to events, which characters she focuses on, and what order she does things, and those choices shape the way the story plays out. The choices about attitude are grouped into sun/moon (based on whether or not she is polite or calm with other people) and globe/star (based on how open she is to the supernatural). Which of the categories you feed into the most will change how Daphne feels about what happens to her and the ultimate end of the route she'll take. It was interesting to see the ways the different possible storylines played out, and to see the more subtle ways that smaller choices would impact the story. Sometimes those innocuous choices would c...

The art is correct and sometimes even quite beautiful, but that's the only point of interest of this game... The story is horrible with no really developed character. Nothing seems natural in the way the characters behave. The game's village seem to be cut of the world it is supposed to be in : some people die and there is no consequence, etc. The writing is really bad, the music is correct but it is often a loop during the entire chapter, the choices are useless as you can chose useless things but not the main character's important actions, sometimes. It is really frustrating. There is beautiful pictures. That's all.