Rue Valley
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You
You are at the motel in the middle of nowhere, the last place you want to be at. You are forced to attend a psychotherapy, which you don’t want. But you can’t leave because, whatever you do, as soon as the clock hits 20:47, the world rewinds and you are back in the room with your therapist. Find the strength to lift yourself up, learn about residents of Rue Valley, uncover the mystery of the time anomaly and figure out a way to stop it.
Characters
Meet a variety of characters, all interconnected and with detailed backstories. See them from different perspectives each loop as you learn more about them. Help them, use them, relate with them. Their stories will make you laugh, cry, break your heart or maybe heal it, but no matter they do, you won’t forget them.
Attributes and Traits
Define your character by Personality Attributes and Traits. Be a cold-hearted loner who overthinks everything or a melodramatic loudmouth always responding with your gut. Reflect your own personality or Role-Play someone completely different as dialogues and interactions are heavily influenced by the character you play.
Status Effects
Suffer the consequences of your choices and struggle with the Status Effects that will temporarily or permanently change your personality. Be more extraverted when you’re drunk, or more sensitive when you’re anxious. Just when you think you have everything under control, a wrong decision and an unexpected Status Effect can start rolling things downhill.
Information, Tasks and Skills
Explore the world to gather Information which is stored in a node based graph that represents your mind. Once specific information nodes are collected they will generate a Task or a Skill. Once acquired, Tasks will tell you what to do and will unlock new choices in dialogues and interactions. A variety of unusual Skills will unlock absurd dialogues and interactions that will allow you to complete tasks in unexpected and hilarious ways. Learn to play the piano, understand rocket science or memorize all the lines from the cheesy romance novel.
Motivation
Explore and complete Tasks to gather motivation. Use it to acquire new Tasks and Skills, but choose wisely, as you won’t always have enough motivation to do everything.
Discussion sur le jeu
Steam User 25
Ça me chagrine de voir ce jeu se faire descendre, probablement parce qu'il souffre de la comparaison avec Disco Elysium.
Il n'est pas parfait, pas RPG, plutôt linéaire, quoiqu'on puisse assez librement choisir par quels points commencer la ligne, les trajets deviennent même douloureusement longs dans la dernière partie du jeu.
Mais je l'ai trouvé très prenant, très joli et plutôt bien écrit. J'ai quand même tenu 14h malgré des passages qui m'ont laissé perplexe, parce que j'ai gardé un abord bien trop sceptique de bout en bout.
Tout ça pour dire qu'en ce qui me concerne, je voudrais davantage de jeu dans ce goût là qu'un énième FPS abrutissant dont la consommation intempérante est plébiscitée par la culture ambiante de l'illettrisme.
Steam User 8
Je comprends pourquoi ce jeu est comparé à Disco Elysium mais je pense aussi que c'est ce qui lui vaut ses critiques.
Personnellement je l'ai plutôt joué comme un jeu d'enquête et de quête de soi, je n'avais qu'une envie : avancer, et comprendre, terminer.
C'est un jeu extrêmement narratif qui pour moi ne se joue qu'une fois. C'est une histoire, avec des rythmes, de petits rebondissements, et des personnages attachants.
Mention spéciale à la DA est aux excellents doublages.
Steam User 5
I definitely get the criticisms Rue Valley get.
It’s very much a visual novel. It’s nowhere near as interactive as Disco Elysium, and the game’s marketing was pretty deceptive on that front. It’s also obviously not as well written. The story is kinda meh and, despite the “mature” themes, it feels pretty teenager-ish. Because of that, it gets boring by the end.
With all that being said, there are some good things.
First, although the writing can’t compare to DE, it’s actually decent by today’s standards. The characters are quite funny and interesting. The way it approaches social and political themes isn’t too bad. The time loop is, in my opinion, decently integrated. Sure, it gets a bit annoying sometimes, but overall it’s still fun to uncover new aspects of the loop and discover the intricacies of the stories and events.
Many of the negative reviews come from very high standards, especially the ones set by Disco Elysium. And I totally get that, but if you don’t set your expectations too high, it’s a decent visual novel, clearly made by people who cared about it, whatever you think of their talent. Because of that, I think it’s far more acceptable than the soulless games coming out of much of the current video game industry.
Steam User 2
Rue Valley propose une dizaine d’heures bien écrites où la boucle temporelle du gameplay reflète celle, plus insidieuse, des affres de la dépression. On aurait aimé qu’il exploite jusqu’au bout son concept si prometteur, mais à défaut de révolutionner le monde, il fait bien son travail.
Note finale : 7/10
Retrouvez ici l'intégralité de mon test pour Canard PC
Steam User 3
Good game, but crashes a lot. Hope a Day One Patch will be released soon. (I don't like when a white screen freeze my whole computer and force me to reboot it)
Steam User 5
Très bon jeu, la DA est incroyable et le gameplay très cool !
Steam User 2
Toujours dans la boucle
mais on ne s'en lasse pas. La boucle ne nous lâchera pas et nous ne lâcherons guère la boucle, c'est ainsi.
La pâte graphique est très agréable. J'adore le style comics.