Hero Project Redemption Season app good for
If youve liked The Heroes Rise series, youll find this game for you.
Was so happy to see another installment for the Heroes Rise story! As always it was fantastic!
The parallel he (the author) is trying to make between leftist issues can be nauseating at times but aside from that its a really solid pick. The majority of the characters are very likeable and Ill be getting the next instalment for sure.
This was an excellent story to branch from the Heroes Rise Trilogy. I very much enjoyed it so much that I give it all my praise for such a wonderful and diverse story telling.
This game does not let down the expectation set by the Heroes Rise Trilogy. In fact it expands on the Heroes Rise universe, allowing readers to explore the minority viewpoint of life in Millenia City. I loved seeing the my old favorite characters (for returners) and meeting the new ones. Excited for the next installment!
The writing is nice, and the story is on par with the authors previous work. However, its linear story is made even more apparent due to the author also railroading your characters personality. The writer utilizes themes of discrimination, but rather than guide you to a conclusion and letting you feel as if you discovered it, the author spends a good deal of time putting characters on soap boxes to preach to you. Even worse, your own character spends a good deal of time preaching about this to you as well in an awkward way which makes it so that you barely even have control over your own characters opinions. It would have been great if the author given the player a bit more space and allowed them to roleplay the experience rather than telling us exactly how to think.
Some bad moments
Think of all the things that made the original trilogy awesome, now forget all those things and you basically have this disappointing mess. There are so many stories the author couldve explored yet he went with the least interesting one, all with the subtlety of 13 year old. And the fact that every 5 pages theres an " inspiring " monologue from one of the characters advocating the authors political views which breaks any kind of narrative the game had going for it doesnt help either. It truly pains me to write this, because the original trilogy were the first games I bought from Choice of Games and the reason for subsequent purchases from them.
First the good: this is a lengthy story, writing is very consistent, lots of choices. And now the bad: author is forcing a very specific world view and it is incredibly obvious and heavy handed, stats and choices can feel arbitrary at times. I get wanting to promote your view point, but the author does such a bad job of making it feel natural and not forced that it completely removes me from the story, also does not help that the author has an extremely specific idea of how your character should be, and any choices that run contrary to that ends up punishing you. Can not recommend.
I loved the first series. The author has a wonderful writing style and consistency. But I cannot get past the constant political rants. I believe there needs to be attention called to these things and representation is so important but I just cannot relate to the main character. I had so anticipated this game for over a year but I couldnt even finish it because I couldnt immerse myself in it enough. Definitely not for me.
Let me get this out of the way, the first series was way better. This entry failed to make me connect to my character as the first one did. When in the first one I truly felt like I was my super hero, this ones writing very much feels like reading a "choose your own adventure " book. I know that essentially this is a choose your own adventure book but the first series did a great job of it feeling like I was the character, every thing that happened to them happen to me,compared to this one where it seemed like it was happening to a character, it lacked the ability to make me connect. The worse part is the ending, this story literally had no real climactic moment and as soon as you begin to build tension and get to that point I get "Next: Epilogue".
The reality show was probably the high water mark of this authors other series, but this one just appears to be long on wind and short on action.
Question: what sort of RPG has you describe your characters powers long before your characters gender or orientation? Presumably this is some sort of message from the author, but I came here for a fun adventure, not to read the pretentious opinions of some windbag.
Give this one a pass. If you want to see a Choice of Games app that handles political messages well, try Choice of Robots.
I attempted to play a character who did not care about politics, yet still found myself watching as the character had an epiphany regarding intersecting structures of oppression. I wish I had read the other reviews before buying, as they warned of these tendencies.
