Posted June 26, 2015
ChaunceyK: I'm on the HB mailing list, and this is the first time I'm genuinely tempted by it for one of their games. 7 Grand Steps looks really interesting to me! Looks like a board game with elements of CYOA. Add that in to writing a family's historical lineage and obvious replayability (not to mention it's available DRM-free), and I think I'd quite enjoy this game!
I realize there's a free demo available, but has anyone played the full game to give me some opinions?
I personally played the demo not very long ago, but then it was 30-40 minutes long so it's pretty representative of what you'll encounter in the early portion of the game. I personally didn't quite understand the point of it all- you (the player) collect a bunch of coins and pebbles, use the pebbles to move around the board so you won't get eaten by a bunch of crocodiles waiting on the bottom of the screen and you "feed" the coins to your character so that he'd learn some skills. If he encounters a woman on the board and gets married to her (yet another thing I didn't quite understand how it worked) they make children and the children get fed with coins too - also I don't know if that's a common feature of the gameplay or not, but after a point I wasn't getting enough coins and pebbles for whatever reason... As for the historical lineage,well, the children eventually grow up, you choose to play as one of them (only difference between them are the character models and their skills anyways) , and rinse and repeat the stuff I mentioned before -nothing spectacular all in all...At any rate, that part is 90% of the gameplay - I only recall 1-2 scenes of cyoa-like choices in the whole demo, and those seem to choose the "correct" answers randomly too. I realize there's a free demo available, but has anyone played the full game to give me some opinions?
My impression from this whole thing was "meh" , especially considering as I saw it being compared to Kodp (that I had already played and quite liked) and that's why I tried it in the 1st place, only to discover it has nothing in common with that game (Kodp, it turns out, is one of its kind!). A final note: another factor that contributed to me being "meh" is that the character models and the board and all that stuff are very, very ugly imo -I don't understand thus what this game is doing in an "Eye Candy" bundle...
P.S.Anyways, you can also check the reviews on steam - some of the negative reviews express the same feelings as myself...