Shards of Eternity - Metanoia
A downloadable story for Windows
This is the story of Ian Young, a man of scarred memory and hurting heart, but of deep poetic intuition and strong desire. These have clashed within him for so long, and we enter the story whenever this conflict has all but been put to sleep. What follows is the story of his awakening. It is a short (four or five hour) and yet profound and focused story, told in the form of interactive fiction or a visual novel. In this medium, we are taken on a journey through the twisting labyrinths of the heart, where are gathered together, from the fragments of memory, the shards of eternity present in the midst of time, and in this encountered the offer of healing and newness of life.
Shards of Eternity: Metanoia is a piece of interactive fiction, story-driven and contemplative in pace, which should take between four and five hours to complete. It is built with an artistic combination of pixel-art, tradition 32-bit gameplay, high resolution photographic scenery, and beautiful music, all ordained to tell a deeply moving and significant story.
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VERY ambitious game, but in fact there are just a bunch of mazes. Photos as backgrounds are neat though, I have not seeing many devs doing that. Also a real nightmare to stream or having playthrough on YT because all of this music and video footage.
First my thought was it going to be a game about chemistry between characters from the screenshots, but in reality this turns out to be more like a "What Dreams May Come"-ish experience. It feels like this game was heavily inspired by this movie alone.
Also I've thought that events in this games take place in something like victorian era or earlier, but no - it's modern times. It's just takes place somewhere in UK, pretty sure Ireland has been mentioned by some of the characters.
and juuuust one more thing - YOU CANNOT RUN IN THIS GAME and it is already more then 2 hours long!
Thanks so much for your thoughtful and constructive comments and for giving the game a play. I agree the concept was quite ambitious but the game itself is something very little and simple, and obviously quite imperfect. Still, I am grateful for your words and your consideration!
Edit: And I actually haven't seen the film "What Dreams May Come," but I suppose we were just exploring some of the same realities. I'll have to give it a watch sometime.