The Hungry Lamb: Traveling in the Late Ming Dynasty
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Story Background. The year is 1632. The Ming Dynasty faces its final days amid internal strife and foreign threats. Years of disasters and harsh policies have triggered famine and rebellion across the land. . A bandit named "Liang" accepts a job escorting four young girls from Huazhou to Luoyang. He assumes they'll be sold as daughters, but a girl named "Sui" reveals the truth: the buyer is a thousand-year-old Swine Demon who devours children annually. Sui's sister was already killed. Sui begs Liang to abandon the mission and help her kill the Demon for revenge. But Liang discovers Sui hides darker secrets.... Features. A Dark Tale of Redemption —— A story of hope flickering amid famine, trafficking, revenge, and cannibalism in a brutal world.. . Multiple Choices & Endings —— 160,000 words across 9 different endings where every choice matters.. . Authentic Visuals —— Realistic art style with researched Ming period clothing, architecture, and environments.. . Premium Voice Acting —— Full Chinese/Japanese voice acting with renowned actors like Rie Kugimiya and Hanser, plus original music for movie-like experience.. . . Characters. . . Play as Liang, the main character and
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The game actually made me cry from the sheer quality of its story
The game actually made me cry from the sheer quality of its story. I've bought all of zerocreationgame's works and I want to make a shrine for them now too. Seeing all the misery caused from poverty, government corruption and natural disasters makes this game feel right at home even though the setting is centuries ago from the past. A shame these are all still prevalent in the current world but that's just life I suppose. Exploring all of these is the game's main selling point and it does so quite well showing that as it is inevitable for evil to spread even from good people in times of crisis. The game nicely shows that despite that, we should still try to be better people if we can and I love it. The humanity and warmth from all the people getting together even with all of their complicated positions against each other just pleases my heart so well. Even with all the darkness in the world that the characters reside in, I finished game much more hopeful than depressed because of the sheer writing quality of the story, the wills of the characters and their understandings to each other all moved my heart so well. I hope Zerocreationgame's the best for their future works and hope they make even better games than this and shine brighter than any of us could ever imagine.
- Graphics4.0
- Gameplay4.0
- Story4.5
- Value4.0
Still thinking about it
I'm really glad I stumbled upon this game randomly whilst browsing the store page because it was honestly really incredible. I can see why this game is so highly rated for sure. The story is simply fantastic. The setting of ancient China is not one you see very often for visual novel games and here it is pulled off extremely well. It does a good job expressing the struggles and hard choices that people went through during times of famine, and the game is not afraid to show off the darker sides of that time period. One of the best ways this game does this is through the characters. From the down-trotted, to the well-off, to the self-serving, and so on, this game does an amazing jobs at using characters to represent all the various different people and groups of that time period. Liang (the protagonist) in particular does an amazing job at showing the struggle many people have in hard times of the balance between looking out for yourself and doing the right thing. The characters are not just there to serve as symbolism though. This game does a really good job through it's excellent dialogue and scenes at making you care about the characters and makes some of the scenes honestly kind of emotional. The art is extremely well done, can be quite unique at times, and fits the setting of the game very well. However, I would be amiss in not also pointing out the soundtrack. The songs are honestly really good and also fit the setting of the game quite well. Aside from a few minor errors, the translation quality is also surprisingly good, and the few errors there are, are very minimal and still get across what they're trying to convey regardless. Overall, a unique and very well written visual novel, that I definitely won't forget anytime soon, 9/10.
- Graphics4.5
- Gameplay4.0
- Story4.0
- Value4.5
One of my best buys this year
I... I don't know how to convey this but... I must say this game is absolutely great. The story is cautivating, the sounds, music and specially the V.A. I don't regret buying this game, even though critics are saying that the English translation of this game is a little bit scuffed, for me personally, I felt they did a pretty good job translating although some parts at the end (endings and conclusions) may need some improvements and also some dialogues don't appear in the dialogue box but it's understandable just so the text makes sense, afterall, english and chinese are different in all ways, they don't even come from the same indo family tree (Coming from someone who speaks Chinese as mother tongue), nevertheless, the translation is PRETTY darn good. Now, getting deeper into the story part, it is a pretty good story, nothing more to say, although the endings weren't what I would've wanted, they've left a good taste in my mouth, and I'm not asking for more. I'm quite saddened at the fact that this visual novel is basically unknown outside China, the world must know and give it its proper recognition. And to basically sum everything up. This is ABSOLUTE PEAK. And that's basically it, if anyone's reading this and haven't bought or haven't played it yet, you guys should, this game won't disappoint you.
- Graphics4.5
- Gameplay4.0
- Story3.5
- Value3.5
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