LAQUE: A Picture Book for Adults
by Justine Tabuada and Trixean Pauline Guarnes BSIT-3B
With the technology’s advancement, game developers had been creating different types of games. From stick figures, 2D game to 3D, virtual reality kind of game. As a fan of novels, I still prefer games that has story in it. That kind of game where everything unveils as you play it. According to wikipedia, a visual novel game is is an interactive game introduced in Japan in the early 1990s, featuring mostly static graphics, most often using anime-style art or occasionally live-action stills (and sometimes video footage). As the name might suggest, they resemble mixed-media novels. Also, visual novels are distinguished from other game types by their generally minimal gameplay. Typically the majority of player interaction is limited to clicking to keep the text, graphics and sound moving, while making narrative choices along the way. This kind of game saves me a lot of effort for I will just read stories and will decide what to do next. The decision points where the player selects a direction in which to take the game.
LAQUE: Premonitions, developed by Jean Fukuda Miyasato, is one of the visual novels I played. The game floats between the premonition world that the main character Laque resides in. Laque (the main character or us, the player) has a gift of premonition, that ghosts or images will show up that gives him clue on the future events. In one of those premonitions, he had seen a girl that isn’t familiar to him. Laque, unable to decipher the situation, decided to hunt down the girl and the killer.
“If you knew that the girl you know you will die for a FUTURE know would avoid?” Laque is a boy with a special gift, he often has prophetic dreams, and one of them manages to see his future love gives her life to save his, now have to decide whether to approach it or avoid it so as not to sacrifice for him. — Google Play Store
With the game’s dialogue concept, the story seemed pretty basic. The dialogue is in slow pace that seems to build anticipation at first but became boring throughout the game. I wish there was a menu where we could edit the typing’s pace. Also, the game experience left something to desire. There are unnecessary random cheap jump scares that sometimes caught me off guard and not quite goes with the game’s story.
All in all, LAQUE is a great game but with a slow pace. I wish you could freely jump around to different times so I could get a better ending. The ending is kind of unexpected but made us look on some things differently (won’t spoil you on this).
