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Rather than talk about this game more myself in this post, I'm just going to link to threefour reviews, with wildly disparate view points of the game (and talk about those).
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Resolution Magazine. This is the one I tend to align myself with the most. I found this one due to the author, Lewis Denby, posting comments in some of the below reviews. (EDIT 3) Which is, sadly and irritatingly, now apparently lost to the ether and is also not available on archive.org due to robots.txt bullshit. *weary sigh* (/EDIT 3) (EDIT 4) Actually, I'm pretty sure that this here is the same review as was on that other site (the one that is now "temporarily disabled" for whatever reason). It was written by the same guy, at least. (/EDIT 4)
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun.This is the one I tend to align myself with the most. (EDIT) Well, see the edit above to explain the strikethrough of the previous sentence. This is still a good impression of the game, though. (/EDIT) This as well.
Destructoid. This one... the guy writing the article (i.e. Destructoid's resident "indie guy") admits he only played the game for an hour, so that kind of invalidates a lot of what he says about the game in my eyes, honestly, except to say that if you don't have the patience to invest more than an hour before throwing your hands up and writing the game off as crap, then yeah it's probably not for you.
Diehard GameFAN. This one... oh man. This one. In my eyes, this review is abysmally bad. If that's what he got (or, perhaps, didn't get) out of the game, then I feel more sad for him than I am left with the impression that the game is actually as bad as he tries to make it out to be. (Hint: it's not. Not even close.) Also, the game is not solely about rape, as this guy tries to claim. The fact that he compares The Path to something like RapeLay at all is ludicrous. The fact that he compares The Path unfavorably to RapeLay is even more ludicrous. The really horrible thing is the possibility that the first impressions of many people, before they've played the game themselves, will be colored negatively by this uncompromisingly horrid review.
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Heh, for what it's worth, Lewis Denby and Alex Lucard (the author of the horrid DHGF review linked above) are discussing the game in the comments sections of the DHGF review and the RPS release notice. Very interesting. If anything, Lucard does a better job reviewing the game in the comments than he does in his actual article (which is horrid).
Speaking of the comments in general, aside from a few retards here and there, the comments on these gamer forums are shockingly civil, especially for a game that is apparently so polarizing.
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And, no, to follow up on my commentary about the horrid (yes, still horrid) DHGF review, based upon some of the comments by Alex Lucard in the RPS article regarding his concerns over the depiction of his article by some, I'm not saying that the game doesn't at all have implied rape in it. Like the source material, it does indeed, yes. But still... comparing it to RapeLay? Seriously?
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Now, since my last post, I have finished the game with all the characters, but I think I want to play through it again before I say much more about it. Dunno when that will be though, because I also want to take more time going through it with each of the characters, rather than "rushing" through like I did the first time. But, at the same time, I think I want to take a break from it and let it "digest" a bit before I go back to it again.
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Resolution Magazine. This is the one I tend to align myself with the most. I found this one due to the author, Lewis Denby, posting comments in some of the below reviews. (EDIT 3) Which is, sadly and irritatingly, now apparently lost to the ether and is also not available on archive.org due to robots.txt bullshit. *weary sigh* (/EDIT 3) (EDIT 4) Actually, I'm pretty sure that this here is the same review as was on that other site (the one that is now "temporarily disabled" for whatever reason). It was written by the same guy, at least. (/EDIT 4)
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
Destructoid. This one... the guy writing the article (i.e. Destructoid's resident "indie guy") admits he only played the game for an hour, so that kind of invalidates a lot of what he says about the game in my eyes, honestly, except to say that if you don't have the patience to invest more than an hour before throwing your hands up and writing the game off as crap, then yeah it's probably not for you.
Diehard GameFAN. This one... oh man. This one. In my eyes, this review is abysmally bad. If that's what he got (or, perhaps, didn't get) out of the game, then I feel more sad for him than I am left with the impression that the game is actually as bad as he tries to make it out to be. (Hint: it's not. Not even close.) Also, the game is not solely about rape, as this guy tries to claim. The fact that he compares The Path to something like RapeLay at all is ludicrous. The fact that he compares The Path unfavorably to RapeLay is even more ludicrous. The really horrible thing is the possibility that the first impressions of many people, before they've played the game themselves, will be colored negatively by this uncompromisingly horrid review.
(EDIT)
Heh, for what it's worth, Lewis Denby and Alex Lucard (the author of the horrid DHGF review linked above) are discussing the game in the comments sections of the DHGF review and the RPS release notice. Very interesting. If anything, Lucard does a better job reviewing the game in the comments than he does in his actual article (which is horrid).
Speaking of the comments in general, aside from a few retards here and there, the comments on these gamer forums are shockingly civil, especially for a game that is apparently so polarizing.
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(EDIT 2)
And, no, to follow up on my commentary about the horrid (yes, still horrid) DHGF review, based upon some of the comments by Alex Lucard in the RPS article regarding his concerns over the depiction of his article by some, I'm not saying that the game doesn't at all have implied rape in it. Like the source material, it does indeed, yes. But still... comparing it to RapeLay? Seriously?
(/EDIT 2)
Now, since my last post, I have finished the game with all the characters, but I think I want to play through it again before I say much more about it. Dunno when that will be though, because I also want to take more time going through it with each of the characters, rather than "rushing" through like I did the first time. But, at the same time, I think I want to take a break from it and let it "digest" a bit before I go back to it again.
