You can now “enjoy” the final version of Slay The Princess. The Pristine Cut has more endings, more princess faces, and more options for looking inside.
-You find yourself in a forest and at the end of the path there is a cabin.
–Val
-In the basement of the cabin there is a chained princess and you must kill her.
-Wait, what?
-Whether or not the world we know ends depends on it.
-One moment…
Another story.
When we are faced with a premise in a video game we ask very few questions. Above all, the evolution of violence that has gone hand in hand since the beginnings of the medium has taught us to ask ourselves: “Okay, what should I kill? Whether it’s alien ships, a goomba or a demon teleported to Mars. But when it’s a princess… Oh! It’s a bit strange, isn’t it? Slay The Princess presents a first conversation with the Narrator who already presents him to you as not being a simple commentator on the facts. He wants us to kill the princess, otherwise it’s the end of the world. His position is so clear that it raises doubt. Of course, we’re talking about changing history, or at least our role as heroes.
Us and the narrator: there are already two actors but this bench is missing a third leg. The princess is chained to the basement wall. Now with the arrangement with which we go down the stairs will receive us one way or another. The princess can appear fragile if she does not recognize our intentions. But we quickly realize that no one, neither the narrator nor the princess, is right and has real information to share. In the end it’s a game of negotiation that ends up killing the princess or not.
Good story tree.
Slay The Princes – The Pristine Cut is a visual novel, but because the narrator takes such an active role, it breaks the fourth wall. The protagonist at the beginning is not very defined and seems to speak directly to the player. More than “choose your own adventure” It’s more like a role-playing game.where you can discuss with the master the possibilities available to you in the face of quest. The ramifications of the story are enough to not repeat itself and in fact the game doesn’t let you repeat the story in the same way. runeven though it seems like it starts the same way, it never ends the same way.
At this point, it’s clear that the loop element exists, adding elements with each iteration that dislodge the player in an already dark and convoluted story. Also, unlike visual novels
A brilliant performance.
Black Tabby Games It was founded by a couple: Abby Howard and Tony Howard-Arias. Abby is an illustrator and in charge of the graphic aspect. Slay The Princess – The Pristine Cut is based on dynamic vignettes drawn in black and white, as if they were part of the sketch. Ethereal pencil strokes which convey a lot of fragility in a princess with big eyes mix with other disturbing images which mix the gray with blood red where everything is more defined, tangible and terrifying. This mixture, associated with the management of music and silences, creates an atmosphere of agitation which accompanies the story.
Special mention to the two voices, one male and one female, which give life and intention to each of the characters who participate in the work. The work done with the narrator and the princess is very fine. Their hair stands on end in the middle of a conversation when there is an obvious turn in the intentionality of a sentence. The voices are in English but the texts are very well translated. Personally, I think dubbing would ruin the well-crafted final product. Not because of the dubbing itself, but because they didn’t want the directors of the work to contribute to their interpretations.
Conclusions.
As a visual novel, Slay The Princess – The Pristine Cut goes a step further in terms of involving the protagonist in decision-making, not only through the wide-ranging story ramifications, but also through rethinking asks the narrator. more possibilities. This sometimes feels like a conversation that could take place with a much smaller artificial intelligence. In this month of terror, this can be a rather original option to live a Halloween experience, knowing that death is not the end, and that the end of the world is something quite subjective when the life of a princess or yours is at stake. .
Slay The Princes – Tre Pristine Cut
$17.99
Benefits
- Good story tree
- dynamic illustrations
- The interpretations
Disadvantages
- The start of each Run is repetitive (the rest is not)
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