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• gamedeal user

  Nov 27, 2021

  ---{Graphics}--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ Free Fire ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☑ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☐ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ All ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{Difficulity}--- ☑ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second live for grinding ---{Story}--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Really short ( 0 - 2 hours) ☑ Short ( 2 - 8 hours) ☐ Few hours ( 8 - 12 hours) ☐ Long ( 12+ hours) ☐ Endless ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☐ Worth the price ☑ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{Bugs}--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ Cyberpunk 2077 ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{6/10}---
• gamedeal user

  Nov 28, 2021

  It's amazing to see how far FMV have come since the old days and it's downright appalling to see how bad the controls are in this game. The visuals, the acting and the soundtrack are absolutely great (kudos to the actors and the composer Austin Wintory) but the controls are absolutely terrible and get in the way of the enjoyment of the game. I got stuck right before the end of my run because the game wouldn't let me click and drag to proceed so after trying for a few minutes and reloading the game twice I ended up watching the two last minutes on Youtube (that's as anticlimactic as it gets). Having players click and drag the mouse on the PC doesn't feel responsive at all in this game and it must be downright impossible for players with any sort of disability since at times you need to click and hold and drag the mouse further away in order to move forward with the story (full disclosure I'm not disabled but I've hurt my hand recently and I didn't expect the game to put me through that much dragging the mouse around). I can understand the time limited events being included for immersion but there is absolutely no reason why they couldn't make it easier to play the game. Last but not least, the game comes with audio files in eight different languages which is great (English, Arabic, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish) but chances are you will be playing in only one language so that's 11GB of useless data that you downloaded for nothing (definitely not ecofriendly) that will clutter your drive (the game takes 37 GB) so if you decide to give this game a try I would advise to go to: \Steam\steamapps\common\Erica\data\soundbanks and delete the folders for the languages you won't be using since that will save you about 11GB. I would entreat devs to consider some sort of accessibility options or controller support for the PC, especially considering this is not a genre that should require that much effort or dexterity on the player's part.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 22, 2021

  Good story and actors but the controls are so awful that I can't recommend it. No controller support and you are more time clicking and dragging pointless stuff than making choices (which is the point of these games). There is no option for pauses when you need to make a choice and you cannot skip already viewed scenes when you play the game again. Basically good idea awful implementation. I'd recommend this only to fans of these style of games, to everyone else almost any title from Wales Interactive is better (Late Shift the best one)
• gamedeal user

  Jan 16, 2022

  I don't understand what's the deal with this game, at first glance, the gameplay felt unique and something new but soon I realized its just cumbersome and rather annoying, picking/clicking on a choice to choose it I understand but opening a door? come on, I want to see good acting and story evolving not opening doors and swiping something each 2 minutes to make the game progress. I would have been able to live with that, if the story was interesting but after 1h+ I was still not attracted or interested in whatever this game is selling, it was dull, uninteresting and boring. Quite a shame really, the actors seemed fine, the lightening, video quality but all of these can't sell a boring can't make head nor tale type of story.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 22, 2022

  Excellent interactive movie. It's extremely well made and acted throughout, at times I couldn't tell wtf was going on and whose story to believe. But a word of caution, it's basically an intense psychological horror from start to finish, despite looking like a casual mystery from the outside.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 22, 2022

  [quote]For more puzzle game reviews, news and everything puzzle-related, follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/25928931-Puzzle-Lovers/]Puzzle Lovers[/url] and check out our [url=http://steamcommunity.com/groups/puzzlelovers]Steam group[/url].[/quote] [b]erica[/b] is a bit more than a typical choise-based fmv adventure. originally released in 2019 for ps4, then on pc in 2021, it tells the story of a girl with magic powers, according to daddy, which I immediately disproved by failing a shell game he put me up to. all grown up she's still tormented by visions and memories of her dead parents and the circumstances of their death. while I enjoy and expect cheese and b-movieness from games/movies like this, [b]it wasn't a particularly interesting story[/b]. the extremely slow pace, more boring than tense or atmospheric, and the unnecessary flashback compilation near the end didn't help either. oh, the 'bit more' part is when you have to [b]make gestures with the mouse[/b], which is all the fucking time. open a door, turn a page or a dial, etc. it's not really a point & click adventure, just has a bunch of [b]unnecessary interactions that constantly break the flow[/b]. either make a proper game or a simple interactive movie where I only have to watch scene, make decision, repeat. I love both, this in-between thing not so much. controls should be as simple as clicking on choices that come up, but [b]making gestures is often very finicky[/b]. of course, [b]most choices are on a timer but pausing the game is possible[/b] while you're contemplating your decision. [b]no manual saving and autosaves only happen when they happen, without any indication[/b], so quitting at the right time to avoid losing progress can be tricky. and [b]you might want to back the save up occasionally[/b] to revisit decisions later because [b]scene skip is not available[/b] either. I can begrudgingly let it go because a second playthrough with alternate choices is a mostly new experience and I might not bother with more even if I can skip stuff. there are [b]6 endings[/b] here, so after the second run I went to youtube. videos are simple .mp4 files, sorted neatly by scene, but audio is stored separately, so didn't bother with them, nor with save backups. [b]settings are sparser than usual[/b], no volume or brightness settings, nor subtitle size options, only a toggle for it, one for easier reading and windowed mode, plus a bunch of languages. the only other fmv with multiple dubs that comes to mind is the really fun [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/dohi64/recommended/1081510]she sees red[/url], but [b]there are 8 dubbed languages here, eating up an extra 10+ gb[/b], making it a whopping 35+ gb. the achievements button only brings up the steam overlay, always lazy, and with each hidden until unlocked (only after completing a run), there's not much point to it anyway. the price is lower than most wales interactive titles and it got cheap during sales pretty fast, which is understandable now that I've played it (not that quality and price have anything to do with each other most of the time). can't recommend it at full or even half price, [b]it's not great as a game, nor as a movie, but for 2-3 bucks it's okay for an evening[/b].
• gamedeal user

  Mar 24, 2022

  [h1]Not bad[/h1] In my first play-through, I couldn't get the gist of it. But when you start paying attention to information you know in your second & third play through, you start sensing something surprising, something with expectations for all your answers & it does answer some, on every iteration. The most annoying thing in this game is interaction with props. I don't enjoy opening suitcases, turning switches & burning a lighter unless there are choices. I always find my self enjoying a sequence then all of a sudden camera freezes because it wants me to do something. This not only makes the player feel awkward but also breaks the buildup, it constantly keeps reminding you it's a game, even when it is not needed to. A playthrough on YouTube feels much impactful & intense then actually playing erica. It is a decent thriller underneath everything mentioned. [b]Score:[/b] 65/100
• gamedeal user

  Jun 1, 2022

  This game does everything wrong in an FMV. The plot is a mess, and has plot holes so big I could drive a buick through them. I feel like the devs used the excuse it is a thriller for let's do random stuff and call it horror. Sadly that doesn't work. I grew up on the old 80s/90s adventure games and those made more sense than this did. To top it off, the game also has strange fake interactivity. Listen devs, no one wants to move a mouse to realistically open a door to make it interactive. Take a lesson from the old FMV games of the 90s and make it interactive like say Gabriel Knight 2 instead. Now that would be good interactivity. And whomever decided to give a time limit and also had the choices start to fade...no. Please no. I do not see well out of one eye and can't even turn my head fast enough to read all the choices with that time limit. I hate to think how someone totally blind in one eye would fair, but my guess is they would find this game impossible to play. Please respect our time and give us enough time to read the choices instead of adding fake tension with artificial time limits that in the end make vision impaired people unable to play this game well due to being unable to even read the choices in time.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 31, 2022

  A cute and scary game at the same time and the characters look like they are real human beings.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 12, 2022

  A pretty expensive game, production-wise, and some famous actors like Holly Earl who had done a fantastic job with role-playing their own convincing character, and all that is for a decent price (if you're planning on playing Erica more than once). If you've started to get bored of FMV recently, well don't worry, Erica takes this genre to another level with high-quality movie production with the camera work, interesting scenery, and set design which made it seems it could be a TV episode. There is also an add-on like interacting with realistic items, for example, turning the key, opening a chest, or flicking a photo frame which all can be a little jarring at first, but once you get used to it they can make the whole experience more immersive. Thanks to the amount of camera work captured on this title, each scene flows smoothly one after another without taking away from the experience, unlike other FMV that cut away from a different scene when a choice is made. There are also some stylizations like choices slowly fading away or blinking lighting where an item can be interactive with if you're stuck. To not get your hopes up, this is one of those games that encourage you to play more than once to get the full story picture there are certain clues and mysteries hidden within different choices you make, and sadly there's no skip button or a way to fast forward certain scenes. This is a shame because this is one of those games where your choices do matter and the story makes you second guess yourself as it's a little more at face value with figuring out what's happening in the asylum. Also, in case you miss this out, this is a whopping 37 GB and that's more so for the interactive gameplay and the multiple translations, so I don't blame you want to skip this one for the moment if you have other things installed at the matter. Lastly, it may just be me, but I'm getting some Pan Labyrinth vibe from the game, if anyone hasn't seen that film you should check it out, it will make you cry if you’re an emotional wreck like me.