Pale Cachexia

I had this game in my steam library for a while but I'm glad I've found a perfect time to play it. Despite a great choice of visual novels I often struggle to find a suitable one for my current mood, [I] Pale Cachexia [/i] was ideal in this regard. From the first seconds when I started it, music, visuals, story tugged at my heartstrings. Despite being very atmospheric in a slightly dark way it was healing for my mental state. I was playing it slowly, savoring each moment like taking a bit bitter medicine. I lloved that experience immensely! It's one of those stories I'd definitely like to come back later. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2806078125 As for the story. I don't want to mention any details about the plot. The whole immersion seems to be kinda intimate, personal. I kept writing down my thoughts, my memories, associations connected to illness, death, allusions to myths, philosophy and fairy-tales but...you know, when I start sinking in similar contemp...

I've been playing games for 28 years and have never had a real emotional response to a game's story before. This game changed that and is the first time I've legitimately been brought to tears. This especially surprised me because I've never really enjoyed Visual Novels, or even reading for that matter, all that much before. But here, I found myself so immersed in the story and world that I played through the game entirely in one sitting. This VN works so well for a variety of reasons. For one, the writing is what I'd consider essentially flawless, at least as far as my knowledge goes. I find that VNs often have serious issues with pacing, but this was the exact perfect length for me, with new things happening exactly when I was hoping for more. I imagine the linearity of the story helps make this happen so effectively (there's no choices here, which is by far my personal preference in game stories), but there's something to be said for this level of craftsmanship regardless. The ...

This VN deserves another playthrough from me. Due to life circumstances, I played it in brief and sporadic chunks. It's best read in a few long stretches closer to one another, or even a single sitting if you can manage it. Pale Cachexia radiates a distinctive sense of atmosphere and feeling tones that cannot be found in many other visual novels or video games. Various labels can be used to classify it, but in a true artistic fashion, conglomerations of language only serve to skew its underlying core that presents itself differently to each individual. It's strengths manifest in its well written dialog, gorgeous drawings, and haunting soundtrack. Beyond all of these visual illusions are its greatest strength: focus in story and presentation. As time progresses and we become exposed to more and more fictional mediums, we feel as if the same ideas get repeated many times over in slightly different permutations. An over-saturated market. We become desensitized. A common approa...

Pale Cachexia is a beautifully drawn and scored gothic VN oozing with atmosphere, with a short, well-paced story and a small, but well-defined cast of characters, which is (in my opinion) let down somewhat by its writing. To start with the positives, the art of this story is utterly gorgeous. Though there are only three characters with sprites, they all have a lot of expressions and poses, which ensures that the visuals never feel static. The main character, in particular, looks lovely. Her design is especially appealing, and I love the shiny, satin-y colouring on her red shirt. The artist did a great job bringing her to life. The backgrounds, too, are utterly gorgeous. There's a lot of them, and they're drawn at a large resolution, which lets the story zoom in on specific elements of these backgrounds without any noticeable loss in the quality of the art. The VN is directed very cleverly, which makes full use of background assets, and often characters will stand in different zoomed ...

I loved this game! I'll remember it fondly as one of my favorites! The beautiful art, music, and story with well-written characters and great writing. A touching, sentimental story that was sad but ended up with a surprising ending. It kept me entertained. I enjoyed all the mysteries. Great job! Every game from this developer is amazing. I wait for visual novels like this all the time. Really made my day! Thanks to the developers for always making amazing games like this. :D

A beautifully illustrated and hauntingly scored gothic novel. Short and bittersweet; perhaps missing an ending coda that ties with the achievement name.

There's so many things that Pale Cachexia does well. It's not perfect, but it's beautiful anyway. Story offers you no choices to make, but sometimes having them would ruin something that doesn't require any of your input. You're here as a ghost, lucky enough to watch events unveil on their own. It's accompanied by dozen of gloomy piano melodies and sounds that fill the picture that would be incomplete without them. I haven't seen anyone to sing praise to text bubbles yet, but I find those to be done incredibly fitting with everything else, as well as menu buttons being hidden while you're reading, unless you'll choose to summon them. It makes novel look clearer and adds to immersion. Art is pleasant, but it's noticeable but it was done by three different people. At one point Esther's head was glued to rest of her sprite, reminding me of Professor Dowell's Head by Alexander Belyaev: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2913529635 Attempts at horror were noticeably weak...

[i]Cachexia, a wasting syndrome that leads to loss of skeletal muscle and fat, is estimated to occur in up to 80% of people with advanced cancer, depending on different factors.[/i] Without any doubt this is probably best novel I read, so far... and yet it is heavy riding, dark and grim story done in gothic artstyle. Pale Cachexia is a novel about Esther a young girl affected by Cachexia disease. When science or medicine fail, people often go outside of conventional boundaries, religion, alternative sciences to help themselves. Same thing happened to our Esther, after she heard rumors about alchemist that lives in forest that might found a cure for her disease she went there all alone. ...when everything fails hope is all we have.... This novel as I already mentioned is heavy reading, plenty of heavy monologues about struggle, survival, loneliness and hope. Monologues are fantastic with deep philosophical thoughts often very long going for pages and pages, getting into her mind as ...

What a beautiful, cozy, soft, and sad story. Esther and Seina's relationship was so pure and delicate. The setting was mysterious and wonderfully illustrated. Gorgeous background art and character models. Well written descriptions of the locations, world building, and character's stories made this VN a treat to read. The music was high quality and not repetitive. The background sound effects were also well done. The ending was bittersweet for me, left me wishing for more.

I read a lot of Visual Novels so I'm not unfamiliar with slow pacing but I found Pale Cachexia an absolute chore to get through, especially when you have to wait a few seconds with sprite transitions for the next text block to appear, making everything just feel sticky/even slower Pale Cachexia constantly feels like it's on the verge of getting really interesting, which is why I stuck with it, but the moments of intrigue are spread out between tons of boring overly written waffle. The characters have moments of intrigue but are really one note - so you're just constantly going over moments of character development that we've already seen multiple times The atmosphere, soundtrack and visuals are really really nice though, to be fair