Fallen Hero: Rebirth

I have been experienceing peak after peak, From finding the best girl In wayhaven chronicles and being a detective, To a powerful mage before that in Leas city of the sun. And am excited to say That the train of absoutely amazing world building and interesting characters doesnt stop with Fallen hero Rebirth. This game is everything you would want a becoming the villan story. (Even though im still kinda playing abit good and have a few doubts about my boy) BUT MAN DO I LOVE BEING EVIL it has never been so fun and this game drives that point home damm well. I was having a blast with this game. It was definetly a diffrent experience than the other two i described but in no way is it any less than them and i can see this game being alot of peoples top game. If you love playing the role of the villan then this game may be for you and maybe even abit of an anti hero? Whos to say your really the bad guy in all this? Either way this review is becoming abit long, Its not the straight romancy stuff i normally play and love but it just hits every action note so well and is an amazing exsperience in a completely diffrent way that i didnt know These types of games could pull off. Looking at the Software used for this game i know exactly how much love went into this game and it really shows. Seeings how these games are made and how much coding really goes into it gives you a much deeper appeication for these games. Anyway ill end it here im Yapping Another masterpiece and looking to see how everything develops in the next game. ( i just bought it)

My actual playtime is 12 hours including the demo which transfers your progress to the purchased game. The demo gives you a good sense of what the rest of the game will be like and I highly recommend you try it before looking at reviews that might spoil the story. Definitely going to play the sequel.

(Short play time here because I actually played it twice on mobile) Fallen Hero is a Choose Your Own Adventure game by Malin Ryden, written in ChoiceScript, a language that powers a lot of games under the Choice of Games and Hosted Games labels. I have read/played a ton of these games and Fallen Hero is absolutely one of the very very best I've seen. It's a superhero tale, but seen through the prism of a hero-turned-underground-villain, formerly known as Sidestep, who decided to abandon their short hero carrier after a traumatic and disastrous mission. They return to the city of Los Diablos to prepare their "rebirth" as a villain, but taking care not to leave any clues to their former identity. It's a brilliantly written, gritty, emotional story with a [i]staggering[/i] amount of choices to make. A lot of these games have brilliant prose or compelling stories or satisfying playtimes or great reactivity to your choices but it is incredibly rare to see one that has ALL of these. I personally enjoyed it even more because I was in a state of anger and bitterness at the time I played this, and it provided a wonderful outlet to pour all my emotions into. I wanted to play an angry, pretty ruthless, isolated, broken, angry (at the world and at herself) protagonist and the game delivered exactly that. But you could also play a redemptive protagonist, that should work too! I really enjoyed the game of cat and mouse, the danger of your identity being discovered by heroes and you former friends, the feeling of being both hunter and prey, the interesting choice of powers (it's revealed early on but I prefer to put it behind a spoiler; Sidestep is [spoiler]a telepath[/spoiler]). If I had to pick one negative point, it is that the way the protagonist's backstory is slowly revealed over the course of several flashbacks makes it that you are not yet aware of the important bits of their backstory and motivations. For me, the bitterness of the writing and the "payback against heroes" narrative were enough to hook me straight away, but I know I usually prefer to know the character's motivations early on when building their personnality. But do not fear! The revelation happens in the sequel, which is even better that this one!