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Fall of Porcupine
Guide young Finley through his first weeks at a provincial hospital. He is on fire for his apprenticeship as an internist. But a lot of pressure makes Finley's life difficult and our gameplay challenging.
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16 hours
Very serious game with heartful moments and false mystery.
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Will go back and finish it one day
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this game was gifted to me via keymailer.
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10 hours
Fall of Porcupine ist vor allem eins: Ein Weckruf und ein Rรผtteln an deiner Schulter.
Zusammen mit dem sympatischen neuen Assistenzarzt Finley setzen wir unseren Fuร in das kleine Dรถrfchen Porcupine und begleiten ihn auf seinen ersten Tagen im neuen Zuhause und im St. Ursula-Krankenhaus. Was am Anfang charmant erscheint, wird schnell zu einem hektischen, bitteren Bestandteil unseres Game-Alltags: Lange Nรคchte, volle Schichten - und eine Menge Misstrauen von Seiten der Dorfbewohner.
Und jenseits unserer Schichten erkunden wir das Dorf, verbringen mit Karl und Mia entspannte Stunden oder begleiten Pina auf den Spuren der Traditionen von Porcupine.
Alles in allem? - Ein sehr schรถnes Spiel!
Sehr treffend als das Deutsche "Night in the Woods" bezeichnet, mit wundervoller und charakteristischer Grafik und einer so liebevoll erzรคhlten Geschichte, die einem insgesamt unheimlich nah geht. Irma ist mein Alltime-Favourite-Charakter, gleich neben Fin selbst und Karl und sogar der schrulligen Dr. Krokowski!
Das Ende kam etwas abrupt, aber onstream waren wir uns einig: Es war ein gut gewรคhltes Ende, das vielleicht einen bitteren Geschmack hinterlรคsst, aber damit auch die Message hinter diesem Spiel gut abrundet.
Denn nach meiner Wahrnehmung geht es hier vor allem darum, ein Bewusstsein und ein bisschen Verstรคndnis fรผr die Arbeit von รrzten und den miserablen Zustand von Gesundheitseinrichtungen zu schaffen.
Ziel erreicht? - Oh ja. Ich denke immer noch viel darรผber nach und glaube schon, dass jeder Porcupine zumindest mal gesehen haben sollte <3
Danke fรผr dieses groรartige Game!
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Fall of PorcupineAm 22.04. begonnen - wird aktiv nach Beendigung von Parasite Eve fortgesetzt!
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6 hours
Si l'esthรฉtique du jeu est vraiment sympa, l'histoire demeure assez inรฉgale. Pour รชtre mรชme prรฉcise : nous ne savons pas ce que le jeu essait de nous dire. C'est un vrai problรจme, vous en conviendrez. Pourtant, sur le papier, l'intrigue ร l'air fort simple et efficace. Nous suivons un jeune mรฉdecin dans un hopital. Et comme chaque nouveau apprenti en mรฉdecine, celui-ci apprend ร la dure. Des superviseurs grincheux et injustes qui lui rendent la vie impossible, des collรจgues qui font de leurs mieux sans รชtre trรจs compรฉtents...l'histoire de la vie en somme. Pour autant, le rรฉcit n'avance pas. On a des mini-jeux sympa mais sans plus, des tonnes de dialogues et sms ร lire sans jamais donner une quelconque profondeur. C'est dommage parce que le dรฉbut รฉtait prometteur, vraiment. L'idรฉe de voir un jeu traรฎter du surmenage au sein du personnel hospitaliers (par les temps qui courent) รฉtait parfaite. Je suis habituellement trรจs patiente sur le dรฉroulement des รฉvenements et rythmes de rรฉcits, pour autant, je n'ai pas pu finir le jeu. J'ignore s'il prend en profondeur et intรฉrรชt passรฉ les 6 premiรจre heures, mais j'en doute.
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28 hours
Super schรถnes Game mit einem wichtigen Thema.
Die erzรคhlten Stories gehen mitunter richtig nah und viele der bunten Charaktere wachsen einem schnell ans Herz.
Leider fehlt es hier und da an Finesse.
Viele visuelle Bugs, kleinere technische Fehlerchen sowie ein paar kleine Rechtschreibfehler stรถren leider doch ab und an...
Auch das Ende kam dann etwas sehr plรถtzlich...
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15 hours
Fall of Porcupine was such a ride. But it took very long to get on that ride and then take that ride. It wasnt a ride until the end pretty much. I enjoyed the game but felt it dragging. I quite enjoyed playing a doctor.
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O jogo me fez chorar... muito bom
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9 hours
This is the kind of game that usually gets me. But, this one in particular is a big if. If the story were better written, if the mini games were more objective, if you could care a bit about the characters. I get the whole "we have to support and respect the workers at the health system" but it fails big time to even build this sort of narrative. And when it does start to get there, it ends.
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6 hours
This one is tough. I played the demo for Fall of Porcupine during the Steam Next Fest and was really looking forward to the full release. I love the premise of what it's like working in a little hospital for a little isolated town, the artwork is great, and I enjoyed talking to and getting to know the characters, but after finally getting the time to sit down with it (about 5-6 hours, some offline), I just felt like I was pushing myself to make any progress. The story wasn't exciting enough to keep me interested, the mini-games offered no challenge, a LOT of time was spent walking from A-B, and the constant bugs and visual issues I ran into were frustrating.
I think I understand what the writers were going for, but everything felt just a bit too mundane. I think what this game is trying to say could have been accomplished in half the time, or less, with more respect for the player's time. For example, fast-travel exists (kinda), but only for one specific thing, and you still need to walk a lot to and from the fast-travel location. If you're not going to that same spot per the plot, fast travel was unavailable, and you had to spend 5 min walking to a place you've already been to before. Eventually, it just didn't feel worth it to continue playing.
Secondly, the bugs. Oh gosh. I played on Steam Deck and I constantly ran into things like: Text cut off the screen, the aspect ratio incorrect and cut off during conversation/mini games, characters getting stuck on walking paths while following, text overflowing the speech bubbles, text auto-skipping when pressing a button to load the chat bubble but other times it wouldn't skip, audio cutting out oddly, etc.
Maybe it was just that the platform I played on wasn't tested, but the game felt unpolished and like it wasn't thoroughly play-tested. This feels a little harsh. I know a lot of work went into the game, but when text is cut off or overflowing in a visual novel, it's very obvious.
This game is lovely; it has a lot of things going for it that it does very well, but as a fully packaged game, it just didn't work for me. Additionally, I think the comparisons to Night in the Woods will leave folks disappointed.
If I were to recommend this game, it would be to someone who really loves visual novels and has some personal connection to the medical industry, but only after it's been patched.
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