Runt of the Litter

If your expecting to personaly lead a thrall revolution or live the life of an empire gryphon keeper like I thought, dont. The game ends when you choose either of those and all you get is a few pages describing what happens to everyone afterwards. The game wasnt bad persay it was just dissapointing that it ends before what I thought would be the best part.

A few minor problems, such as a bit of failure to keep the continuity of pronouns. I had a female griffon, and, while for the most part it followed without problem, more than a few times I'd find a line such as "You scratch his beak the way she likes." But, barring that, there's very little to complain about. The choices are interesting, the story is wonderful, and the writing is lovely. There was a bug that prevented progression, but has since been patched out, and I've encountered no other such problems. I've had a great deal of fun with this. Recommended.

I rarely leave reviews, but I feel its important to acknowledge the quality of "Runt of the Litter". The, last few choice of games publications have felt rushed and/or uninspired/poorly written. I'm glad to see a return to form with this work. In regards to crashes/bugs I encountered none in my playthrough. Further, my only complaint as previously mentioned is the continuity of pronouns. With a female griffin being referred to as male occasionally.

I wish I could write a "Neutral" review of this game, but Steam sees this in a binary, so this is what I have to say; If you're looking to get into choose your own adventure games, this is not the entry point. If you are into choose your own adventure games, and don't mind some difficulty and odd writing, this might be for you. It's fairly decent in terms of a choose your own adventure for the most part, on par with the rest, but it suffers from a couple big flaws; 1. Some choices might instant kill you anti-climatically, and if you're not a fan of that, this game might piss you off. I died on my first playthrough, and I felt all my hard work had been wasted. 2. The author refers to any character that doesn't have an pre-mentioned gender as zhe/zheir. While I applaud being progressive about non-binary gender identity, it feels forced and irritating at some points, especially considering they/them/their works just fine, and it seems the author goes out of the way to not assign gender ...

Haven't finished the game, so keep this in mind. pros: relatively ok story the logic of the story is easy to follow, so you know what's going on without any confusion on any given page choices matters cos: it's not clear what might increase a stats, and what each stats actually do. personally it's less polished, by that I mean there's not enough words on one page to fully paint a picture of the world. it's very possible to die as story progress, so it might be a little difficult for some people, which breaks the immersion. for conclusion, I can't say I can recommending it to anyone, perhaps pick this up if you are a choiceofgame veteran, but personally I'm very frustrated with this game and decide not to finish after dying, for reference, I'm played my fair share of choice of games, but this is the second game ever where I feel actually frustration,

This is not a good game, an ok one maybe. You have no real background, you are just a Thrall that just all. If you have a love intrest all other character that are your "friends" you will only see them three times. And in the end, if you satisfy the council, than you are allowed to make the "big" choice, which leads immidietly to the epilogue, no war, no rebellion against the council, that was it and the narrator tells you how it looks now and then it's over. There is simply no weight behind the choices, there is one really short surprise, which confused me more than intrigued me, because it was poorly explained and then it was over. You don't shape your destiny, you are just simply allowed to do it, or you fail. That's how I felt when I played the game

In terms of personality everyone's Griffin is exactly the same from the game's beginning to its abrupt climatic ending which comes at a time that feels like the stories halfway point. Minor spoiler. During the course of the game I became the hero of the universe which I really shouldn't be considered much of a spoiler. But the mission I went on to achieve my champion of the universe title is so insanely simple that I don't know why some other random NPC hadn't already done it. It kind of felt like getting a parade for brushing my teeth. But as I already said in the first sentence. It's a very anti climatic game.

Quick breakdown is: Super interesting world and gryphons, but not really any choices that seem to matter. The stats that build up don't seem to do anything, not like Choice of Robots or others like that. It was short and anticlimactic, and could have done with more expansion. On to my main problem. I was enjoying this game (because gryphons), but I got really thrown off when they started using "ze" and "zir" instead of actual pronouns. Why is there tumblrisms in this game? I would have really preferred to stick to real genders unless there was a game/alternate reality reason as to why there is a third gender instead of it just being thrown in. It was a bit immersion breaking, and I found myself quickly skimming each of those sections because it was just so strange to see in a real game. I really question why that was decided on.

Before you read on, I want to warn you that this revieuw is quite rambly. When I got an email from chioce of games notifying me that there was a new game, I immidiatly bought it. I always love these games and this one was definitely not an exeption. I even thing this one was one of the better ones I've played. First of, I think the society you find yourself in in this game is very interesing. From the start you have a clear picture of what is going on. The society is comepletely centered around the gryphons. This gives every action surrounding them feel important. Your own gryphon is very adorable and greatly written. It felt like it was a real creature. I also loved all the characters in the game. The realtionships you form with them feel natural and not forced at all. They all have their own opnions that they stand by and will defend. They all have very unique names, but they all have a certain feel to them making the society even more believable. What I found very interesting...

I guess I'm going to write a review about this game. First off, the marketing arrowed me in the heart like a professional Robin Hood. They posted a link and blurb on IFDB.tads.org: "Steal and raise a baby war gryphon!" That was all I needed to read. I couldn't hit "BUY" fast enough. I was that Fry meme, incarnate. SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY. But unlike CoG's "SLAMMED!", which sucked me into the story to the point where I *lived through it, mannnn!* (and you should really buy SLAMMED! immediately), I just couldn't get my head into this game (and I really wanted to, see para. 2). I had a really hard time keeping track of who was who and what everybody's different griffin looked like (which is, I think, kind of important when visualizing the story). tl;dr The writing just didn't generate strong enough mental pictures for me and I couldn't stay engaged. Then I died before (I think) any real adventure started. So I hung it up, meaning to try another day and...I just haven't. So it is wit...