迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa
The Vigilant Villa is a plots-oriented, texts-based AVG adventure game inheriting the classic “A locked room mystery" story mode. Where the game heads towards is completely decided by player’s own deductions and choices.
迷雾之夏-The Vigilant Villa is a word game, visual novel and mystery game
developed by 知行合一
and published by 游艺春秋.
Released on July 17th 2020 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: Simplified Chinese, English, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,013 reviews of which 796 were positive and 217 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 2.63€ on Steam and has a 60% discount.
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Windows
- OS: Windows
- Processor: Intel i5-760,AMD FX-8100
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GT560 2GB,AMD HD7850 2GB
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible sound card
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FIrst of all, I will directly start with my advice to new players about what you need to know if you're buying this game: - A bit weird but readable and understandable (Chinese to English) translation, error code bug (hex color code) among the script, typos, and FEW untranslated Chinese words (apparently one of them is located at the main gameplay, but lucky I manage to get through with barely understanding Chinese). - If you got error from accessing the main menu, just spam click the Enter button. Sometimes 1 of 3 will get you in, sometimes 1 out of 20. After 20 click, reload the game and repeat for better result. - If you want to completely understand the whole story, buy this game along with its DLCs in one go. It's worth it when the bundle is on discount. Otherwise, just wait until it's discounted (I got the full game + DLCs for a price that is even lower than the original price without DLC) - If you expect the ending from the main game will tell you everything, no. The plotholes and backstory are explained better in the DLCs. Now, for what I like and don't like from this game: Story : It sticks with classic murder mystery novel of "who dunnit" and "why/how s/he does it". I can see a mix of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None", Knox's Decalogue, and Umineko element in this story, making it somewhat classic but refreshing, albeit not a masterpiece. I'm still intrigued with the murder mystery solving, and I love the twist this game gives, story-wise. The last chapter, however seems a bit off... which I assume is due to an additional backstory suddenly added to the plot and changed the main point of this game. If you already played the game, you might know what I'm trying to say the experiment, and the underground lab... is it really necessary? The first 7 chapter you are into solving the murder case and trying to find the culprit, and suddenly the last chapter (8th) you're being told about why all of you are all gathered in that villa. Well, anyway the ending also does not really help explaining the whole story, as it serves to give you insight about how to interpret what I assume as "open ending". There is 1 ending which corresponds to the DLCs, so in that sense, I think it's reasonable to call this "Secret" ending as the true ending. Gameplay : The deduction and collecting evidence part are interesting, although sometimes when we are to present strong evidence, the correlating statement sometimes does not have any strong basis to reason it. Not to mention, some clues are noticeably weak. I mean, we have this bunch of dialogues and texts flying round right? So, for example, who would have thought that someone's birthday written on their ID card will be used as password on 3 chapters after? It would be okay if we can trace back all the clues gathered during the deduction process, but instead the devs locked out the handphone (where we stored clues) function during this phase. I don't get the point??? Also, sometimes it feels a bit redundant to repeat the same process for different evidences, waiting for those text and animation to pass. The game itself is very forgiving, so the hurdle aren't that high except for some essential moments (though then you will still given the choice to Retry at the last checkpoint). I appreciate the game trying to be interactive as possible. That said, having to repeat the hidden clues over and over is plenty annoying :) Replay Value : I'm sorry to say this, but LITTLE TO NONE. In fact, completionists of this game must have shed so much blood and tears till we puke just to achieve all 10 endings, and for sure we're not going to touch the game ever. again. And why is that? Because you have to replay the whole thing from Chapter 1 to just to get different endings. Yes, all the story PLUS the point-and-click drag-and-drop deduction process. But you know what makes things worse? The story does not have different branchlines or routes, it will remain the same from the beginning to the end. The only thing that makes the ending different is determined from your Good/Evil status, Detective Levels, Hidden Puzzles (solved/unsolved), and your relationship with others. So not only it's hard to receive indication that you are on the correct route or not, you can only know if you fail/success to get the ending your pursue after defeating the game. And replay the whole process for another ending. I'm also sorry to say this but while the devs try to make the ending into twist, there isn't really anything special about them. The only thing that makes me at least satisfied is because I read the DLCs, otherwise my review might change drastically. Visual : The characters are pretty well-designed, but some CGs art and chibi arts seems to be of lower quality to me. Probably drawn by different artist, hence the inconsistency. The sprites are animated, but sometimes the movement is too fluid for human's body that it seems like they're swinging their arms around too much lol. Music/Audio : Nicely done voice acting! Nothing less that I could commented on. The background music is eerie to my ears, which probably suits the murder mystery theme of this game. Lastly, I'll keep saying this. BUY THE DLCS IF YOU WANT TO PLAY THE GAME. In fact, just play this game once, get this particular Secret ending, and go play the DLCs. (try to watch find them on youtube or bilibili something). I like the game and the concept and the interactive concept, although a lot of things disappoint me at least the story is okay through the end.
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I played this for 15+ hours and only got 2 of the 10 or so actual endings. It's a mystery, detective, and escape room type of game. Majorly on mystery and detective, the English translations are fine but a little off when it comes to the characters names but it's an overlook I can easily handle and the Chinese VO was great. The art style and characters were also quite interesting in there own way. There are many secrets and achievement you can accomplish in the game and unlock. The problem can come in with the plot being a little forced near the end or it doesn't seem right, of course this is all my opinion since I haven't achieved all the endings, internet connection is required so depending how good your internet is it may take a while for the game to start. I also found the screen blacking out once or twice after I finish a chapter or an ending but that is very rare. There is a complete guide that is only in Chinese (as of me posting) so all the English folks who can't read Chinese may have to do trial and error to achieve the endings and achievement. This is however a game you should try out if you like visual novel, mystery, detective, puzzle, sort of games. My favorite character in the game is Issac and Fang Shi.
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I saw reviews here and it got me interested in the game, I also like detective mystery game so I was excited for it. Overall I enjoyed the game. The characters are varied and I liked the music as well. However, while I was enjoying it at the start, I begin to have mixed feeling for it towards the end. I recommend people to play this definitely, it may be me only getting the mixed feeling, and this part is also enjoyable as well. This may be in spoiler territory so i put the spoiler tag below. At first it gives me the mystery feel, our background, who are we and when people started dying one after another, I get curious and really engrossed in it. We are trying to deduce the killer and I wonder who will survive at the end. It gets me thinking how does the killer commit the crime. And then it all changes. After the 3rd person died and they went into the cave, it seems to have a change in theme. From mystery murder to survival game. Here is where the mixed feelings come in. I like that we are all connected, and the part about telling the truth and getting through the games is exciting. The plot of Emily is very nice as I already paid attention to her from the start. I once suspect she has a problem but due to a different reason. Her being totally different from her usual self is a nice thing to watch but here are my issues with this game. Maybe because i was expected the mystery game where we deduce stuff, when we get into the cave, the mystery is all gone. We know there is a killer, but it is "hidden" as well as "in the open" Before we thought it is one of us, and killing us through "normal" means, but now we are openly being targeted. People die very easily, Clare goes back to pick up her necklace, Issac sacrifice for us, Leo hallucinating. It like like they were being foolish and the game is trying to get rid of all of them to have the sole survivor plot. It is not because of the hidden murder, but a survival game. No precaution is taken, no deduction. What is the answer Issac is trying to tell us to find if it is all the dream at the end? What is the Zhong guy purpose where he died in the secret room? Does the fact that it is a dream explain why the people disappear from the group photo? What is the thing in the mirror that both we and Daisy sees, the one where she seems to be afraid of? Is there a point to the relationship building? People seems to react the same way no matter what we do I was paying attention to the character of Emily. She appear to be a soft women who listen to her husband yet is a doctor, a source of reliable information in the case, and is not afraid to help. She seems to suffer from some anxiety and there is a mystery around her. She seems to be more and more broken down and I was hoping to see her being more firm and maybe at one point stand up to her husband, after working with it. Then the final reveal seems to make it better or worse by making her fine all the while, as it shows she is fine at the end. But the scars story is also revealed and why she do not want to say it. But for the woman that seems to need guidance, to be the mastermind that is guiding us all this while is very nice. I really like the fact that Daisy was at the end though. Her being our psychiatrist represent the fact that inside the game/dream she was always with us, our beacon of hope, the one "outsider". Seeing the teenage girl fan to be our personal doctor our age walking beside us at the end is amazing, some-more it is the final credit scene. I do recommend this game, it may be that I was looking for a sort of potential from the murder mystery then it changed to a theme that I also like very much. Sort of like mixing the beginning and ending of two different story together? The ending part makes me feels satisfied and unfulfilled at the same time. My favorite character is Emily, Daisy and Issac before AND after the final plot reveal. Not sure if it matters but I'm Bilingual in both Chinese and English so I really enjoy the Chinese dialogue/audio and English display system. I haven't played the DLC so..as far as I know it is about the characters in more details, so is this all really a dream? or the story is actually real, and the dream of daisy being the psychiatrist is the dream Ingram are having to cope? EDIT: I have played the extra content so some of the question I have are answered
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It was difficult for me to decide whether to recommend the game or not. The game is very good and one of my favorite detective games. The atmosphere is good, puzzles are challenging and fun, the story is interesting too (even if the translation is a bit rough at times). But the DRM (?) can be really awful. Sometimes it would not let me play the game at all, it said "Login from a different location". Sometimes it let me play the game just fine. My internet connection is fine. Is it because I'm on wi-fi? Other people seem to have this bug as well. I was thinking of voting "no" just on this issue alone. But it felt unfair to vote "no", because I had such a good time playing it once I did get connected (I was never disconnected during play). I say to check it out and if you can get it to connect properly then enjoy it. If not then Steam lets you refund as long as you have <2 hr of playtime.
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The translation is terrible but this game is worth playing in my opinion. Really enjoyed the game. There isn't many of these kind of games, so people who are into games like Zero Escape, Danganronpa, Hotel Dusk, Birth Me Code, etc or Agatha Christie's "And then there were none" should really give this game a try. Or just for fans of murder mystery/detective stories in general, like Japanese detective mangas or Sherlock Holmes. It is an interesting China spin to those kind of stories, with Chinese culture, like ghost money and wechat, fully voiced with Chinese VA (top notch imho). Could feel rough with little bugs here and there, text overflows, incoherent translation, but hey, it's not like we have many better games of this genre that you haven't played yet. Disclaimer: I understand zero chinese.
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