Uncoven – my final opinion
What can I say about this game? Did my opinion change after playing it through to the end?
The short answer is: No, it didn’t.
Uncoven feels like wasted potential – it had interesting concept, but failed miserably in the making.
For instance, the choices for the path of power were about Nyx prefering to do things alone, oftentimes insulting and belitting their friends, but in the final chapter, it turns out – we care about their wellbeing and don’t want them to get hurt or die.. like, I’m sorry, but what? How can such character even bother to care about them? (since it’s not like they’re tsundere to hide their true felling or anything like that) But what was I thinking and getting my hopes up for, when all the choices we make matter only for the illustrations part and for the ending chapter, not through the whole game…
Like really, there are no differences in what Nyx says or thinks, out of the like 1 or 2 lines of dialogue after a choice and all the other (be it their thoughts or spoken out words) are the exact same. Such a shame, really.
As I said it in the other post, the only good thing I find in this game is the backgrounds and the music. The backgrounds are very detaled and there are some details that change in them, little by little, throughout the game. THAT was a rather nice touch and I didn’t even notice it at first – it was only thanks to my friends from our discord server, who pointed it out and we started comparing them to catch all of the differences.
(after time, some of the paintings are crooked and the flowers in the vase wilt more and more)
I guess the light on the sprites makes sense now, after the ”big reveal”? It still looks dumb, but anyway.
And about the reveal… I’m just, I don’t know, I thought that maye the authors won’t make the only white man be the big villain, but guess I was wrong, since we knew from the start how they perceive them (well, at least it’s how they show them to be in the game). How dumb of me, really, to have some expectations.
For the last part, what about the story itself, what can I say? As mentioned before, I feel it’s a wasted potential. There was room to make the story interesting, to not waste our time on unimportant conversations with others – like please, even if it was something of little importance, make it to be something that comes up later to idk, make a character development or something. Don’t dump us with info that will have no impact on the story whatsoever… I don’t even wanna mention some of which just felt like it was added only for the factor that it will make the game more ”mature”. To me it just felt so out of blue, I couldn’t care less. And to note that there were so many instances where we got to say or hear others say about one particular thing in each chapter, so fricking many times… Like I get it, I understand from the first time, don’t repeat the same info to me three or more times, it’s tiring.
And as a side note I’ll only add that I’m dissapointed that even in the ending of patch of power, my Nyx didn’t get to (and what’s worse: didn’t even want to) kill off people T-T Almost all of them were so irritating to me, I’m sorry xD
Last thing, I wanted to thank everyone who kept me company through it, without you guys I believe, I wouldn’t be able to endure it for so long <3 At least it’s over now, I’m free!
