Jester / King
The court jester, Madion, wakes up by the king’s lifeless body. A demonic curse has struck down every true citizen, and driven others to madness. Madion is torn between seeking the truth, helping the survivors, and a desire to escape.
From the author of Demonheart comes a new visual novel in a similarly dark setting, dealing with themes of murder, love, trust, and deceit.
Features:
- Story of over 90.000 words.
- Important lines are voiced over.
- Choices to build, or re-build, a relationship with one of three characters: Lucille, Calix, or Edwina.
- Collect “keys” – bits of information needed to progress the story and discover the truth.
- The cursed kingdom is looping in time – use the flowchart to change your choices.
Characters:
You play as Madion, the jester who has lost his memories. Having been forced into a life of chaos, uncertainty and deceit, Madion starts off feeling conflicted, jealous and spiteful. He needs to let go of his dark thoughts and redeem himself. You can make choices for him, affecting his relationships with the other characters.
Lady Lucille was forced to live in the king’s palace while he waged war on her homeland. Quiet and cunning, she adapted quickly. Lucille believes she understands Madion, and is always there to support him.
An orphan of common origins, Calix received a favorable place in the palace thanks to his good looks and charisma. Some believed he was involved with the king, but Calix’s eyes were set elsewhere.
As the king’s alchemist, Edwina used to follow His Majesty’s every command. She is strict and slightly paranoid, with a cold exterior, but Madion sees a different side of her.
Diskussion über das Spiel
Steam User 0
It is a very interesting visuell novel. Many unexpected things, with demons, love and hate.... and what you need. The gamedesign is nice to cut through already played parts, so it dosen´t stretch to much and stays interesting.
Please stay away if you can´t see blood, violence and such, be aware.
Steam User 1
The story isn't sinister enough for my personal taste and what i'm used to from the previous games but that is personal taste and so far i've just played one route with a happy ending. So that view might change (hopefully). I like the Artstyle of the previous games more but in the end that is also just personal taste.
The game is decent. Defently something to pick up and play.
There is however one major thing I have to complain about: The game does not create savefiles or asks you at the end if you wish to save your progress. So I ended up with one savefile that is pretty much from the beginnning and have to play it all over again if i wish to make some changes and see how they play out. Not saying that the game needs an autosavefunction but there should at least be the question: Do you wish to save your progress? at the end of the story.
Steam User 2
Sehr nett gemacht, nette Zeichnungen, sehr interessante tiefsinnige, richtig gute Storyline. Ich hätte nicht gedacht, daß mir diese Story Novel SO viel Spaß machen würde. Denn eigentlich reizte mich die ganze Hofnarr Sache so gar nicht ...
Interessant dabei: Man spielt die Geschichte und kann sich hin und wieder entscheiden was man macht, durch Dialog-Auswahl. Je nachdem WIE man sich entscheidet werden "Keys" freigeschaltet, sprich: Andere Dialogoptionen (man sieht das auf der rechten Seite).
Wenn man sich für unterschiedliche Keys entscheiden kann, muss man zu der Stelle zurück gehen und das Ganze noch einmal spielen und nun die andere Option wählen. Da Spiel reagiert entsprechend auf die Entscheidungen. Clever gemacht ...
Alleine wegen der wirklich etwas "anderen" Story, die Tiefgang hat und wegen der tollen Idee mit den "Key" die neue Dialog-Bereiche freischalten, lohnt sich dieses Game auf jeden Fall.
Nur in Englisch!
Steam User 5
Story is good but the game crashed multiple times without any Crash report
Steam User 1
I really had fun with this time. It is a bit of a time travel mystery, with romance, dark drama, unexpected plot twists and all nice main characters. It is hard to praise it without spoiling more, but I had great fun, and enjoyed the game. :)
Steam User 0
Very exciting! I liked this game.