Beek - Familiar Spirit 12+

‘SOME SPOILERS, GET THIS GAME AND FINISH STILL THOUGH’
No spoilers review at the bottom.
Ok so I love this game. The part with the spinning runes is kinda confusing but it’s probably meant to be that way. The long intervals and random times messaging you makes it so it’s inevitable that you miss some stuff and mess up the time. The last bit with the dev mode has a lot less control and your basically just following a story line, but still. It’s awesome. I think you should add a setting to make the time in the game match your time, but I don’t know if that would mess anything up. I think my game got stuck once because BEEK was online but not saying anything so I used the button and it fixed it right up. I love basically every thing about it, but I don’t know if BEEK is a girl or a boy. It doesn’t matter, I just probably missed something. This is a great game and I wish there were more like this. I’m definitely gonna replay this.

You should definitely get this game if you like stories and games with choices. I have thoroughly enjoyed this game, and I think you will too.

So i was skeptical about this game, and then I started getting into this. A little too much. I start to get sad when Beek is offline, even though they are not a real person. A fake person programmed to text what it’s supposed, when it’s supposed to texted me more then anyone in these past 5 months… It felt nice talking to someone a few times a day for once, even if their not real.

So far it’s an interesting story, and a fun modern twist on the fantasy genre by telling the story via a simulated instant messenger. By taking this approach, the story feels more intimate and allows the player to immerse themselves in the narrative and allow their suspension of disbelief make them think for a moment the events might actually be happening in some alternate universe that you somehow can get signal to.

Sadly the format seems to only exist for convenience rather then innovation. I would expect a visual novel game that takes place on an instant messenger to involve communication between you and the main character rather then just Beek rambling on and on sending out multiple paragraphs of texts while you only send a single two or three word response that has virtually no effect on the story. The developers didn’t think to actually give the player more options or at least have the dialogue options be a little more articulated so it looks like you and Beek are equals in the conversation rather then Beek ranting to a brick wall.

It’s good, just wish they did more with their concept then feed you a book one text at a time.