Death Collector

Not the best work by this author. Choice of the cat was excellent. This... This is just mediocre. You're stuck in an awful, soul-crushing job. Everyone hates you. Sure, there's intrigue, and sure, there's some interesting ideas, like the cloaks, but the whole thing is a bit of a mess. There's problems where things are just mentioned as [script error], or something akin to it, rather than just the normal spelling and grammar errors. What skills apply to what are completely unclear, and the game is damn unforgiving about it. A character can have a high relationship, but still call you an idiot. If you've had a crappy office job that involves some manual labor, that's this game, except in this game, people also cut people's tongues out. I recommend Choice of the Cat instead. This is just excruciating.

Death Collector is a very interesting game by Choice of Games. A 300,000+ word interactive novel makes for a story that can be rather in-depth and full of choices - telling us a tale worthy of being remembered. Now see... Death Collector is memorable. The story has great depth and sets up an interesting world narrative that you end up thrust into... but it feels like it lacks in many aspects in more ways than I can really grasp at for particulars. The story is intriguing, the basis interesting and rather novel. But... the ending feels rushed and many of your own options feel like they don't make much of a difference. I felt as though no matter my choices the ending seemingly would end up the same. It also doesn't really make me want to replay it either to find out if that is the case. The story is well thought out, has depth, and I just wish there was more angles to have taken for who you were to make yourself out to be. It is a good story, but personally not my favorite Choice of ...

interesting concept unfortunately the choices are poorly worded and can lead to your character doing exactly what you didn't want them to do. it also so stonewalls you into doing choices that you didn't pick for example you are given the choice to not eavesdrop but end up being accused of eavesdropping anyway. also makes your character do things opposite to what you want them to do regardless. at that point why are you playing a choice game with no choice?

I disagree with the other review - I have been reading COG Games for a long time now, I even have a tattoo to do with the company. This story is well written, I found the concept quite intriguing and I could tell the authour put thought into their story. I agree that I was quite surprised to find the script error however it has nothing to do with the writing and can easily be patched out, it is rather hard to proof read every scene in a 300,000 word book. I found the charcters all interesting in their own right and I found that each had a distinct personality to bring them to life. I eagerly await what may come next for our charcters. This is certainly one of their top books out this year, and if you have time to spare and want an engaging read, give the Death Collector a try - I think you will be pleasantly suprised.

Most of the choices are petty and insignificant. The charaters are unlikable. And if author wanted to put words in the players 'mouths and force out some feelings that just aren't there, at least make them feel they MATTER in this story, which this game still fails at miserably. If you want to have a taste of what kind of quality Choice of games and Hosted Games have stooped to these days, just try this game.

Death Collector is mess of a narrative, a poor story, and a poorly told one at that. Paragraph after paragraph where you do nothing but read. That would be fine if this were a novel, I love reading novels. But this isn't a novel, it's a Choice of Games game, emphasis on game. There are few player choices, fewer still that actually matter. Even if they did, it would be negated by the cast of characters. They're all totally unlikable, and the entire narrative framework is structured around that fact, meaning you've gotta be just as terrible as everyone else. Maybe that's just the style the author was going for, but it makes for a slog of a read. Aside from that, the story is just plain boring. So much of the opening half hour or so is sitting around, reading about lore and characters and not actually doing anything. Endless paragraph droning on explaining who everyone is, what your job is, and how this world works without actually letting us do anything for ourselves. I've finished ev...

I'm sure there are many out there who will enjoy this game. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. The story is definitely unique, and some ideas caught my interest, but it ended rather abruptly and with too many loose ends. It honestly felt like the story was going somewhere but the author cut it short/didn't have time to develop it. I also didn't like the ROs, which is a deal breaker for me.

I’m going to start this out by saying some nice things, mainly because I don’t want this review to be entirely negative, and there were some things I liked about this. The concept is really interesting. The idea of being “death’s little helper” is interesting, and the cloaks are super fascinating and a cool mystery to try and unravel. Plus, the concept of cutting dead/dying people’s tongues out to collect their stories is super fascinating and unique [b]So, now, the negatives [/b] The story can be oppressively depressing. I mean, I know the subject of collecting people’s tongues after they die is dark, but come on. Everyone hates each other and constantly argues to the point where it stops even being interesting storywise, and it felt like half of the time, even when leaning on my character’s strengths, I would never be able to succeed at anything. I’d try calling in some of the favors I’d earned, only for nothing to come of it. Yet I feel like I still had more su...