Tales from Sol: The Gun-Canine is a visible novel with journey sport parts. There’s a facet menu the place you’ll be able to transfer, look, use, discuss and use and merchandise. Nonetheless, there are not any puzzle within the conventional sense. Every little thing you do is laid out and telegraphed. There’s a helpful duties display that tells you what to do when you’re misplaced. Like I stated, it is a visible novel, and it’s fairly one at that, that tells sci-fi story.

Tales from Sol: The Gun-Canine stars you, who could be he, she or they, and also you selected your complete identify. You’re a safety officer on the star ship Gun-Canine who has to fulfill up with one other star ship and examine mysterious alerts. Your star ship is filled with anime tropes, however its okay, they’re properly written and principally three-dimensional. This contains your love curiosity, who spends more often than not out of fee. There are twists and turns and branching paths, although the primary story isn’t affected a lot by these paths. For instance, early on, you’ll be able to shoot an individual with a stun-gun, and that can have an effect on your relationship with them.

The largest drawback with Tales from Sol is the textual content is confined to the underside of the display and can’t be modified, inflicting me eye-strain at occasions. Additionally, once more, the characters fall into well-worn tropes, however that’s actually a nitpick. On the plus-side, there are three completely different visible choices, like this one:

It’s neat that Tales from Sol: The Gun-Canine has them, however they don’t change the precise sport in any respect. Regardless of that, all the graphics are properly accomplished with some neat visible touches thrown in. General, I loved this enormously and provides it a Beneficial with an eight back-end rating. If you happen to’re searching for a bought sci-fi visible novel, you can’t go fallacious with The Gun-Canine.

General; Tales from Sol: The Gun-Canine is a stable science-fiction visible novel that’s entertaining and fairly to have a look at!

Verdict: Beneficial

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Launch Date 2/20/25
Price $19.99
Writer Astrolabe Video games
ESRB Score T

P.S. The closest factor I’ve reviewed is precise journey sport known as Monolith!

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