Empty wishes. You want carefully.

Reminder: Empty soups It is a visual novel with a touch of terror that explores memories to reach the darkest areas of a family.

The Taiwanese development team PUFF CROCHET studio He made his debut with this visual novel that the desires of people keep two faces, even more for the people around them. Reminder: Empty soups It's a visual novel with Airs of Adventure point and click in which we play Yonny, A teenager looking for his disappeared brother after his thirteenth birthday. But this game is not a linear research collection survey and draws the common thread with fate (although there is red thread). It is a journey through time through the deepest memories of the family and friends of Tommy, the brother.

Assist the call

This trip begins with two children from Toy Phones, and currently Yonnie can listen to her brother. Through them, you have access to Lost Wishes Hall, a gallery of paintings where you can access memories And the reflections of the five characters that make up this story. The phone will be the method of transport between memories, marking the number indicated to modify the image.

Reminder: Empty soups Use the appeal of false freedom able to choose the image you can get. I say false because in reality The player is intended for each chapter in a fairly organic wayaccording to an order which is always the same. Adopting, in the first part, the role of the friend of the protagonist, Phoebe, an apprentice witch. In principle, the world of history is the real located between 2010 and 2016, but the work and reality of Phoebe are distorted. While we deepen the memories, everything is darker, theAtmosphere, it becomes denser and the problems become the rarest that give way to terror.

Teenagers always have the feelings of the skin of leather, but in this house, the atmosphere is rarely rare. Try several times Doing things correctly only brings misunderstandings and resentment. Little by little, we see what these smiles are hiding on Tommy's birthday photo.

Graphic adventure areas

Despite being a visual novel, where history catches this interaction, Reminder: Empty soups Allows us to move on stageInvestigate objects, pick them up in the inventory and use them when they are necessary, all very guided and some moments of jam beyond the veteran player who tries to skip steps. Here you have to give them all even if you have the solution. There are keys or phone numbers that force you to have memory, or like my case, A notebook to target the numbersBut here we are in history did not distract us with mechanics.

The puzzle is what they want to tell us by recalling the actions and especially the feelings of each of the characters. A collage that he goes up in the head that can lead to the reason for the disappearance of Tommy, where The defect is distributed and there is no clear trigger or natural evolution. Everything has to do and what was considered a joyful thought shelters the roots of a bad grass.

Lack of character.

Each memory, located in a period and a space, has a part of reality, in natural horrors, such as abuses or death, they are treated with Quite childish metaphors, as if they were afraid to name them. There is another more dreamlike part, which takes the tone of a horror film, with viscera, monsters and nightmarish images. It is striking to see how roughly a bloody area is, but when you have to talk about the real misery, things are not called by its name.

Visual style is nothing of the other world. Beyond manga style illustrations that act like a kinematics, andThe art pixel shows that the game looks like a bookstoreSometimes confusing the characters and therefore confusing elements of the story. This lack of personality feels the script. Like music, which appears in emotional moments, it is quite repetitive. The technical section in general is lazy.

Conclusions.

Reminder: Empty soups It is a visual novel with a pretty premise of threshing, but with a story and a structure that keep you in the game. Its point and click point also helps to be more participating in history, but extreme simplicity of all interactions suggests that it is nothing more than a hook to continue reading, again Only in English. You have to look at the question of translations … for those who are entertaining with the visual novels here, you will find good news very hard.

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