About This Game The Shopkeeper – An Interactive ShortA desperate man needs to find the right antique to impress a rich relative, but his choice will have dreadful consequences. The Shopkeeper is a point-and-click narrative game set in a space between the Twilight Zone, classic Lucasarts adventures, and Antiques Roadshow.FeaturesFully voiced (starring Jeff Ricketts (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, ST:Enterprise))Graphic novel style graphicsInteractive short co-written by James Wallis (The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen & Once Upon A Time game) b4d347fde0 Title: The ShopkeeperGenre: Adventure, IndieDeveloper:Tom De RoeckPublisher:MastertronicRelease Date: 23 Oct, 2014 Download The Shopkeeper .exe Confusing and disappointing. The repetitive story line feels like a bug more than a narrative style.. I bought it straight away because it was recommended by the 'choices and consequences' curator. While said choices are indeed present in the game, I failed to see any logic in how your actions affected the outcome of the game. Yes, you get to click a bunch of antique stuff and hear the snippets of the item's story, then you have some dialogue choices. But what good is the choice if its concequence is completely random and unrelated? Don't get me wrong, it's not like the concequence is so surprising that you can't even see how exactly you got to it. It's just that the concequence doesn't make any sense or have any relation to the choice you made so you start to wonder if your decision making even mattered. That's what annoyed me the most and that's why I regretted spending any amount of money on this game. Also, the structure of the game is very bizarre. I couldn't figure out exactly at what point one playthrough ended and the next one started because the game starts anew automatically. Maybe I'm just too dumb but I still think game developers should've done a better job of marking the beginning of each playthrough and overall explaining\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665to the player. This particular player felt frustrated and annoyed by the lack of logic or at least the explanation of what's going on. Dislike.. I tried to write a review for this title a few days ago when I got it, and was unable to. I only wish Steam fixes this problem in the future so others can see the reviews of horrible games like this, before they pay for them.Since it is too late for me, I want everyone else to know that this game is actually the worst I have ever played. It is not a point and click adventure as the story goes on without your input. The story doesn't have a clear end, as the man will always come back to the store, but seemingly for the first time, even if the layout is a bit different. The stories told by the shopkeeper are also confusing. The main character of his story is obviously not the man in the shop, and yet the story seems to outline what will happen to the man upon returning to speak to his mother in law and looks exactly like the man in the shop. Also nothing in the story the shopkeeper tells has anything to do with the actual artifact the man is asking about, or not asking about, depending on if you just let the game play itself or not.In short: if this game were free, I would still not want it in my Steam library, because it would remind me of the time I wasted on it.. The Shopkeeper sounded like an interesting little game for its price, but having played some of it I wish I had waited longer and read some of the user reviews. The game felt slightly broken, with scenes never really tying together correctly. You're merely dropped in with no explanation as to what's happening. Apart from that there was very little to do, and gameplay boiled down to an occasional clock clicking or skipping of dialogue that came up previously, which is far from the "point & click" gameplay they claimed to offer. While the art is nice the repetition of scenes wears thin very quickly. If you want to experience this game for the art style then just look at the screenshots above, as these were the only settings I encountered while playing through. All in all, I can't say I'd recommend this one. Worse still, with their comparison they have sullied the once proud name of Antiques Roadshow, which is frankly unforgivable.. Horrible game. Nothing much happens and it's slow and boring beyond understanding. Voice acting is worse than awful.. The french have a way of thinking about art, they say "l'art pour l'art" - it's just art for arts sake.Bear this in mind when enjoying this game,Entrance yourself in the atmosphere of a small town, its antique shop, and the stories of the shopkeeper.Use your imagination. Try out different things not to WIN the game, but try to understand the characters, feel them and so on.The atmosphere is a bit like Twin Peaks or an episode of Columbo.A gem game.. I found this one interesting, though it helps having a guide to get to the ending proper if you dont have the patience to trigger things through trial and error. It's very amatuer (voice acting is only passible, for example), but there are some neat ideas there. Three bucks is definitely a good price for it.. I think I like what this game was trying to do, but unfortunately, the execution was lacking. I can feel the potential, and I really wanted to like it.The interactivity is almost non-existant, and what's there is poorly implemented. Clicking on things usually had no effect, even when the cursor changed, making me think that there was some interaction with the object the mouse was over. Sometimes, clicking would inexplicably skip dialog, making me miss things, other times, nothing would happen. The game appeared to keep going regardless of what I did, and the events in the game rarely had anything to do with the things I clicked on.Overall, this left me feeling confused and frustrated.. An interesting story, but it takes several very similar runs to really get the whole picture. Figuring out how to reveal the whole story is also unclear, forcing frustrating retries. Better direction, some polish on the art, and better voice acting could pull this game together into a good experience.. Keep in mind that this is not the sort of point&click game where you can move around freely (the game does that for you) plus there are no puzzles in a traditional sense. It's probably more like a short third person audiobook with very light interactive elements, where you are able to click on a couple of objects and dialogue choices, but except for that the game dictates everything else. If you're okay with that, you can expect interesting artwork and a very nice and dark comedy, that can actually get you thinking!
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