its a nice game but with one problem, its almost impossible to get water
Reviews for "The Evening of the Son"
From the category "Adventure/Point-n-Click", I expected a different type of game. "Simulation/Other" would fit better.
I quickly entered a state where I needed water but could not find it. The only choice that provided a chance of increasing my water supply was "search for food", but even making that choice several times, I would find water less than one out of ten tries. My low level of water made "rest" or "working out" ineffective. Even exploring the other choices, I did not find water. I felt the game presented me a problem that I could not resolve. Looking at other recent reviews, I'm not alone.
The menu choices and the situation texts were a lost opportunity for presenting a sense of theme. As the player, all my choices came from this menu of "search for food", "search for weapons", "search for first aid kits", etc, which besides being identical throughout playing the game this menu does little to describe the experience of living through a zombie apocalypse.
Consider just the experience of desperately needing water; if I felt such extreme thirst that it made me too ill to rest (and does that really make sense?) would I still itemize my alternatives by what category of salvage I wanted to find? If I need water there is only one category!
Is there any reason why I suddenly grew a moustache? Or did I hallucinate?
Anyway, I enjoyed this game quite a lot.
One bug to report, though: It says you gain a bunch of stuff from the guy with the backpack if you let him get eaten, but actually it takes them away from you.
Hyptosis responds:
DAMN,Thought I fixed that bug, thanks for reporting it!
The game is entertaining but suffers from conceptual flaws, namely the extreme rarity of water and the fact that encounters that cause you to lose items are much more common than those that give you items.
Nice game.... but water is a pain...