The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
Trek across ancient China in a dark, boundary-pushing visual novel inspired by traditional Chinese art with modern animation. Escort four girls to the prosperous city of Luoyang in a branching narrative with themes of revenge, cannibalism, involuntary servitude, and more on a redemptive journey.
The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty is a visual novel, historical and multiple endings game
developed by 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
and published by 零创游戏(ZerocreationGame) and 2P Games.
Released on April 22nd 2024 is available only on Windows
in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 48,640 reviews of which 46,974 were positive and 1,666 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.5 out of 10. 😍
The game is currently priced at 9.79€ on Steam.
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Windows
- OS *: Windows 7, Windows 8.1
- Processor: Intel Core i3 2.00 GHz 或 AMD A10
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel® HD Graphics 3000
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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I... I don't know how to convey this but... I must say this game is absolutely great. The story is cautivating, the sounds, music and specially the V.A. I don't regret buying this game, even though critics are saying that the English translation of this game is a little bit scuffed, for me personally, I felt they did a pretty good job translating although some parts at the end (endings and conclusions) may need some improvements and also some dialogues don't appear in the dialogue box but it's understandable just so the text makes sense, afterall, english and chinese are different in all ways, they don't even come from the same indo family tree (Coming from someone who speaks Chinese as mother tongue), nevertheless, the translation is PRETTY darn good. Now, getting deeper into the story part, it is a pretty good story, nothing more to say, although the endings weren't what I would've wanted, they've left a good taste in my mouth, and I'm not asking for more. I'm quite saddened at the fact that this visual novel is basically unknown outside China, the world must know and give it its proper recognition. And to basically sum everything up. This is ABSOLUTE PEAK. And that's basically it, if anyone's reading this and haven't bought or haven't played it yet, you guys should, this game won't disappoint you.
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Somewhat spoilery for the first 'twist'. I really don't understand many of the criticisms in the negative reviews of this game. In regards to "pedo" claims about some content about the game, I just want people to actually think critically for once. Does the game at any point endorse the disgusting actions of the protagonist? No, it in fact actively goes out of it's way to show how he has become without morals at the start of the story, in how he describes humans and his victims as 'sheep'. Does the game fetishise/glorify the spank scenes, or the peeing scenes? No, the prose is very plain/dry, and there is zero visual imagery in regards to them. Does the game gratuitiously use these scenes? No, I think kids needing to pee and disrupting a trip is a pretty normal and universal human experience. Do I think, given the circumstances, that it's 100% reasonable that the protagonist and his co-conspirator as looters and murderers and human traffickers would keep watch over them as they went to pee in order to not allow them to escape? Yes. What's even funnier is the people who think the game is romanticising an adult and a child. I'm sorry, but if you thought this, I think that says more about you if anything, because the game literally has zero mention of the protagonist at any point being either sexually or romantically interested in the child. The rape threat, while gross, was something that he said to scare her because she nearly killed him (which is also entirely in character). The most amount of intimacy that we see is the protagonist being a father figure to her in the true ending. Onto the actual review. This visual novel was nothing short of a masterpiece. I have never seen something so raw in terms of portraying human desperation and brutality. The feelings that the game makes you feel is something so often detached from our everyday lives. We're thankful that we live in a society where we are free to enjoy entertainment like this without worries about famine, plagues, public chaos and disorder, sadistic officials, etc. I can only imagine what it must have actually been like during those times. I also like that the game never actually allows the protagonist to be absolved of his crimes. He accepts that doing virtuous actions will not clean his past, but that doing them in of itself is a moral good that he must so, unlike many other forms of media which blatantly try to have their crimes forgiven.
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The game explores some very dark topics, so this might not be everyone's cup of tea. Other than that though it has masterful storytelling. The good voice acting also helps with the immersion and adds some flavor. The translation is good for the most part, though it can be a bit clunky at times. However, this isn't a major issue. One thing I did notice is that if you save your current progress (and the choices made so far) and reload a previous chapter to explore what the other choice would have led to, then reload back to your save, that decision will actually overwrite your decision made in the save. This isn't very intuitive, so I recommend doing a full playthrough first and then checking out all the other branches/decisions to avoid accidentally getting an ending you weren't supposed to.
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I'm really glad I stumbled upon this game randomly whilst browsing the store page because it was honestly really incredible. I can see why this game is so highly rated for sure. The story is simply fantastic. The setting of ancient China is not one you see very often for visual novel games and here it is pulled off extremely well. It does a good job expressing the struggles and hard choices that people went through during times of famine, and the game is not afraid to show off the darker sides of that time period. One of the best ways this game does this is through the characters. From the down-trotted, to the well-off, to the self-serving, and so on, this game does an amazing jobs at using characters to represent all the various different people and groups of that time period. Liang (the protagonist) in particular does an amazing job at showing the struggle many people have in hard times of the balance between looking out for yourself and doing the right thing. The characters are not just there to serve as symbolism though. This game does a really good job through it's excellent dialogue and scenes at making you care about the characters and makes some of the scenes honestly kind of emotional. The art is extremely well done, can be quite unique at times, and fits the setting of the game very well. However, I would be amiss in not also pointing out the soundtrack. The songs are honestly really good and also fit the setting of the game quite well. Aside from a few minor errors, the translation quality is also surprisingly good, and the few errors there are, are very minimal and still get across what they're trying to convey regardless. Overall, a unique and very well written visual novel, that I definitely won't forget anytime soon, 9/10.
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The game actually made me cry from the sheer quality of its story. I've bought all of zerocreationgame's works and I want to make a shrine for them now too. Seeing all the misery caused from poverty, government corruption and natural disasters makes this game feel right at home even though the setting is centuries ago from the past. A shame these are all still prevalent in the current world but that's just life I suppose. Exploring all of these is the game's main selling point and it does so quite well showing that as it is inevitable for evil to spread even from good people in times of crisis. The game nicely shows that despite that, we should still try to be better people if we can and I love it. The humanity and warmth from all the people getting together even with all of their complicated positions against each other just pleases my heart so well. Even with all the darkness in the world that the characters reside in, I finished game much more hopeful than depressed because of the sheer writing quality of the story, the wills of the characters and their understandings to each other all moved my heart so well. I hope Zerocreationgame's the best for their future works and hope they make even better games than this and shine brighter than any of us could ever imagine.
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602
Developer
零创游戏(ZerocreationGame)
Publisher
零创游戏(ZerocreationGame),
2P Games
Release
22 Apr 2024
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