Bientôt l’été: It's "almost summer" and it almost works...

[Tanukitsune]

I don't know if it's a coincidence that this game came out so close to Proteus, but I've liked every Tale of Tales game before and I even liked Dinner Date, so what could go wrong?

Well, atmosphere-wise it is good, the game is about a couple of lovers galaxies apart who can only connect through cyber space and the cyber beach does give you the right feeling since the "engine" makes the beach look more "cyber" as you walk down it until you reach a "cyber barrier", the music goes well with the atmosphere as it get more eerie and uninviting as you try to leave the beach, but that when I have to talk about the interaction or "gameplay".

The game is basically a cyber date, which is something I'm fine with having played Dinner Date and Digital Love story, the problem is... You only talk by interacting with a chessboard in a cafe at the beach, you have to use your "cyber view" on items to get new chess pieces which are supposed to give you new things, but the real problem is that the conversation seems to be one sided and you have no idea what's going on. The other side can't seem to decide whether she loves or hates you and doesn't seem to give a damn about the gun I eventually found in the game.

It's possible that I screwed up, but it seems that depending on where you place the chess piece you say something different, but after two or three moves, I can no longer say nothing and only the other side speaks, but even for the few rounds it does, the conversation is equally illogical. :|

ME: "What should we do?"

Other: "I want to scream. I am screaming."

Maybe my character just doesn't want to speak with the other character anymore...

PS: I really just hope it's bugging and it can/will be fixed, even if the conversations don't make sense they'll be better with two people talking.

[Tanukitsune]

OK, I had a conversation on Twitter with the Tale of Tales guy and it seems that I missed a key part of the game, "the poetry is in the waves". You literally have to walk NEXT to the sea to unlock things to say!