Winter Voices - Episode 4 Released

Steam has released Episode 4 for Winter Voices, titled Amethyst Rivers:

As you descend the mountain on the road to the capital, your vision clears little by little. For the first time, you are able to face your past, as well as your future. What do they have in store for you?

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More information.

http://www.wintervoices.com/game

Reading over their own descriptions of the game, I can't find anything that should have led them to believe this game should be called an RPG. There aren't even any RPG elements. Unless having a storyline is considered an RPG element now?

Anyway, the game sounds a lot like some of those experimental graphic adventures that Sierra was doing in the early 1990s. I forgot their titles because I was never a fan but I hope for their sake it pans out better now than it did then. Long as they stop calling this a "roleplaying game".

I tried the demo a while back. I would say it qualifies as a RPG- there are classes, skilltrees, TB combat, dialog trees. Unfortunately, although I appreciate what they were trying to do here, Its just not very good. Combat is a drawn out puzzle-like affair, and performane was extremely sluggish- almost inexcusable for a game with such low-end Gfx. The writing, at least in the english translation was overly melodramatic. I may look at it again if/when all episodes are out and they release a cheaper bundled version.

I'd say it was much, much more rpg than it was interesting. There were at least a couple people here who thought it didn't completely suck.