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The Whispered World English Demo now available

Threepwood4LifeThreepwood4Life
edited April 2010 in General Chat
A playable demo of the highly anticipated The Whispered World is now available for download at 600mb in size. The full game has been out in Germany since last year but it finally hits the rest of Europe on April 23rd and the US on April 26th, also it will be out on digital distribution sites the same day as the US release.

You can get the demo here and its worth checking out: http://www.gamershell.com/news_93946.html

Comments

  • IrishmileIrishmile
    edited April 2010
    Cool thanks for the link
  • guitarsareboringguitarsareboring
    edited April 2010
    Oh cool, I'll give this a go, it looked pretty.
  • MatakuMataku
    edited April 2010
    there's already a thread, but this game deserves another :P
    loved the demo. I was gonna get the game anyway, but the demo really had me excited about the rest of the story...
  • RoivasRoivas
    edited April 2010
    This might seem really stupid to some, but I absolutely hated this game based solely upon the demo. The character is petulant, whiny, and a defeatist. I really don't want to listen to him whine about how horrible he is for any longer than I have to, which is now over since I hit the dead end of the demo after about twelve minutes of playing (ten or so more exhausting other dialog trees). Further, I really didn't like the interface because it just didn't jive well for me. Clicking on a hot spot and dragging the mouse to select what I want to do seemed really dodgy. Also, I really didn't like the inventory management or that I couldn't get descriptions of anything but the hot spot items.

    The voice acting was nothing to write home about, but I didn't mind King's Quest 5's voices so why bother to complain about that? Particularly since the only really grating one is the main character and it isn't the actor's fault.

    The art was generally pretty good and the setting/plot seemed like it could be fun. I would've forgiven the small issues I had with the interface if it weren't for the horrible main character. He's really got no reason to hate his family apart from just not liking Ben's occasional abuse, which I assumed came from how terrible a person Sadwick is.

    He's openly verbally abusive to his grandfather and even neglects his pet. He refuses to do chores to help his older brother who seems to take all of the family responsibilities outside of cooking onto himself. He can't do anything right and will give up at the first sign of trouble.

    I get that he's supposed to be 12 years old, though at first I assumed he was just an adopted gnome, but only the most insufferable act like this guy. He's got a roof over his head, family members that provide for him, and a travels frequently.

    Tl;dr- I didn't like the game, mostly due to the writing/characterization of the main character Sadwick. But thanks for posting the link to a free demo, it was worth trying out.
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