Femida Review - Abandon this hearing drama

Femida is a game of adventure mystery point-and-click by interactive art that allows the player to take the position of a criminal judge after the revolution of a nation formerly communist. The protagonist, Demian, must navigate in his own desires to protect his wife and child and find out what happened to his father, while trying to do justice to the people of the newly democratic country. It is more complicated than it seems, every decision taken before a court could have a personal effect on the life of Demian.

The game is very heavy in text, the majority of the action taking place in judicial battles, of which Semanian decides a lot. There are interludes in the apartment he shares with his cousin (I believe), who works as a doctor and insists a lot for that Demian takes his pills.

There are also plots involving a detective whose father died during the recent Revolution, the mother of Demian, who does not seem particularly concerned about the disappearance of her husband, and the letters to the woman and the child of Demian . There is also a dog you can caress!

Do not get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a heavy game in text. I love adventure games point-click and I love to decide the fate of fictitious people. However, the Russian translation leaves a lot to be desired. When I started playing the game, translation errors were in almost all sentences, even if they were quickly updated to solve this problem ... except, honestly, it did not solve much.

The translation is always clumsy at best - although there are less comprehensive strike mistakes (although there are some some), there are important grammar problems and sentence structure problems everywhere. I am pleased that developers are working to improve the game, but for now almost all the game's text is actively working against Femida. A text based on text without the text is almost not a game at all.

Perhaps worse than anything, the story simply did not attract me. When a media does not name its places in front of vague descriptors like the country or the government, and events and people are called only the dictator and the revolution, they are so general that they lose all resonance for me. I thought, however, that there were interesting ideas presented in the judicial affairs themselves.

I liked how much Femida was talking about difficult topics, cannibalism sexual aggression, but the distractions of the clumsy translation and user interface really came out of the game and made it difficult to focus on the story. And when I was able to focus on the story, I found that interesting things were offset by the disadvantages of getting there. And honestly? I have the impression that it is difficult to fully tackle such serious topics in a single trial in play, and even if everything worked perfectly, I do not think I would have been convinced.

The non-judicial scenes were the least convincing for me. So many characters went and came, and the exhibition was so clumsy, that they had no personal meaning for me. Semian's personal life was confusing, and I made reckless choices just to see what had happened, because honestly, I did not care about his safety or livelihood. There is a kind of court approval system with public approval, but it was difficult to evaluate, and I stopped paying attention early enough. When I had a bad fine, I did not feel bad about it and I was not inclined to replay it to see the other options.

I do not like to give a criticism as severe to an independent because I know how important the critics are. I know that people have worked hard with little money on this game, and I respect their work and their efforts. However, I can not really consciously recommend this game to anyone I know, and I think it needed not only more time for translation, but considerably more time for development to expand almost everything The game. The only reason I finished this game is that I write this review, and it's not a long or hard game to finish. Femida approaches some interesting topics, but fails in his execution in almost all respects. The revolution could not repair everything.