Recent reviews by oolon

Initially being unsure about this buying this game I first played the demo version of this on Desura. Its simple anime art styling, hilarious story line and addictive music soon had wanting to find out what happened other characters. The inital 4 characters, Yael, Bri, Liam and Derek all tell the same events from different points of view, so the back story and future hints are only uncovered a little at a time. The next 3 Dan, Steph and Zeke progress this story forwards.

This game reminded me the simpler times, of chose your own adventure books, day of the tentical and Leisure Suit Larry in the land of the lounge lizard. At the moment all paths are unlocked in GBDNATE, and playing one story, does not effect any others, I suspect this is a product of how the game has had to be writen one character at a time, after all this is only an Alpha, nothing to stop the developers locking characters and paths, until other ones have been discovered, this however would be best done once all of the 13 character stories have been written. It took me about 25 hours to run through all the character paths, the game has a nice skip function where you can forward through sections you have already seen. However currently it cannot do this where sections are indentical but accessed through different paths.

There seems much debate if this game is "suitable" for steam. Personally I think not every game needs to be the latest shot them up, where the only difference is the arena, models for monsters and allowing people to pay real money to dress up your doll (oops sorry character!). All a game needs to be is something that is an amusing diversion for a number of hours, I have paid alot more for other games (such as X Rebirth) that have taken alot more developement hours and far more graphics eye candy, but yet been utterly boring to play. The story in GBDNATE grabbled me from the start, and made me laugh alot, even though I am not into furries!

If you don't like anime or don't like laugh at rediculous situations and prefer to spend your time blowing things up then this game is not for you. However the good news is there are plenty of identical clone first person shoters for you to pick from.

All we need now GBDNATE to be a proper steam game is Badges and Achievements!

This is a seemining simple game, however its business model and free market economy are really addictive.

If your a fan of TF2, this one is in the same style. In the steam sale today its rediculously cheap too.

The game seem so simple yet, but is so addictive, playing v other people is the real challenge.