Stories from Sol: The Gun-Dog Review

Tales From Sol: The Gun-Canine is a basic sci-fi story wrapped up in a visible novel. With warring factions within the Photo voltaic System, conspiracies, and relationships between crewmates aboard a small confined area of the Swift class ship often called The Gun-Canine, tensions can rise in a short time.

Tales From Sol: The Gun=Canine’s occasions happen after a battle that rocked the Photo voltaic System. The forces of Earth, often called the Photo voltaic Federation, have been overwhelmed by the mixed forces of the Martian Territories and the Jovian Unified Colony Fleet. Your character, whose title and gender you assign, was a cadet pilot within the battle and was meant to struggle within the ultimate battle piloting a Body – primarily a mech. Nevertheless, your Body didn’t launch and the remainder of your squadron, bar one different pilot, had been misplaced within the battle. Just a few years post-war, you end up because the safety officer of The Gun-Canine, a ship for disasters and others which might be to be saved out of the best way.

The Gun-Canine is a small ship, which implies it has a small crew. Nevertheless, amongst this crew your character already is aware of two individuals. The primary is Cassandra, aka Cassie, the second in command and the sport’s love curiosity. The second is Hansen, the opposite survivor out of your former squadron, who has blamed you for the deaths of the squad mates misplaced within the battle as you weren’t there once they wanted you. Different characters embrace Captain Barthlomews, Lieutenant Vanessa Lord, Chief Engineer Cathays, Cadet Dalton, Ensign Haru, Weapons Officer Dylan, and Physician Rosarium, the ship’s doctor.

A few of these stand out greater than others. Cassie is the strongest of the bunch, as you spend a whole lot of time along with her because the plot unfolds, however there’s additionally a whole lot of interplay and friction with Hansen and Lieutenant Lord. In actual fact, the builders must be recommended on Lieutenant Lord, as a result of I’ve not felt such visceral hate in direction of a personality in such a very long time. The epitome of self-serving who would step on anybody to get forward and save their very own pores and skin. It’s like Othello’s Iago was the inspiration, however a minimum of he may feign liking Othello. Lord has no such compunction to fake to love anybody.

Different characters fade into the background, having smaller elements to play. Although they’re all distinctive, Haru is sort of a hanger on of Hansen, and Dylan is somebody you’ll hardly ever work together with both. These are all decently written characters, and so they do have some hidden depths to them, although you’ll recognise frequent tropes that they construct upon.

A visible novel’s core focus is the stream of its story, and it begins off robust. The Gun-Canine is distributed to help the O’Brien after some unusual readings have been detected on the sting of Jovian territory. From early on you’ll be able to work out that these readings are unhealthy information, but it surely takes the characters longer to succeed in that conclusion. What follows is a plot the place you primarily turning into a detective to work out what is going on, in addition to managing relationships with key characters.

jvbhknjUnpicking that thriller via the story is respectable and fascinating, however not completely distinctive. The ending will be impacted by a few of the selections you make as nicely, selections in each responses you give and actions you are taking.  Tales From Sol: The Gun-Canine can be presupposed to be the primary entry right into a wider universe of visible novels, so there are some story factors left open on the finish. I do need to see what occurs subsequent, however I don’t actually really feel that quick want to play the subsequent instalment immediately.

The gameplay wrapped up within the narrative is fairly simple. The presentation of the consumer interface provides six choices to click on on, with these being Transfer, Use, Look, Discuss, Merchandise and Perform – all fairly self explanatory. It may arguably even simply be 5, as Perform includes a map alongside its database and process log that makes Transfer redundant. A lot of the time you may be studying and interacting with the opposite characters, although there are some puzzles to unravel to make progress. These puzzles are fairly easy to work out, so you’ll not be caught in place for too lengthy.

The sport additionally has three graphic varieties. Doujin Mode provides you entry to the early visible idea of the sport with fairly a cartoonish. Studio Mode appears like 90s type anime however in a inexperienced palette just like that of the Sport Boy, whereas Vivid Mode is like Studio Mode however in full color. You may swap between these at any time. I switched between Vivid and Doujin mode, having used Studio throughout my playthrough for the preview, and ended up favouring Vivid because it provides a lot extra element within the environments.