The Last Winter Knight
Review: Positive
But the past does not care for what you'd like to be true.
A bittersweet, tragic, painful, and at times gruesome tale of regrets, suffering, vengeance, and deceits. Fragments of shattered lives.
You are alone. Whispers wrap around you like silk, trapping you in their threads. You are alone.
You are not alone. Voices linger. Memory coalesces. Theirs. Yours. They flicker and burn. They wither and choke.
The story follows a spirit with no memories awakening after possessing a suit of armor which feels familiar. Navigating dark halls of a castle, remembrances will return to shed light over a forgotten life. But the light might be only metaphorical, as it seems that the only things awaiting to be unveiled are shades of sorrow: sadness, fear, grief, loneliness, jealousy, and more.
I ask the spirits now: whom have I offended, what great being have I challenged, that my life's course is charted only through misery?
A visual novel with some small graphic adventure mechanics, which excels in atmosphere thanks to its poetic language, its visual arts, and its outstandingly synergetic soundtracks. Whereas the choices are not too consequential story-wise, they are capable of adding supplementary layers to the atmosphere, also due to seeing certain desirable option being fatally locked.
Death has dipped his brush and soaken his palette to present the scene before you.
The whole experience is well-paced, and it flows magnificently delivering all the needed information without breaking its mood nor losing itself in endless dialogues or descriptions.
Additionally, it has a well-made glossary for both elements that have been discovered during the story and contextual terminology (such as the name of armor parts).
As I get older, I often think about you both, Mother and Father. I think about my life, and where I want to go, and how bleak my chances are.
One thing that it might need though is some trigger warnings for those who may need them, as it touches upon some pretty dark topics, and some scenes and drawings are quite eerie and unsettling.
I hope that I can end my confession here. I hope I will not live long enough to lengthen the list of my mistakes.