Review of Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Purgatory
| Subject | Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Purgatory Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Purgatory |
| By | Helpfulness: 0 Vote: 8publicnuisance on 2024-08-13 |
| Review | I felt that Purgatory was the strongest story yet from Different Tales. It had better pacing than Heart of the Forest. It still had the same great lore as well as did a good job of incorporating characters from Heart of the Forest. I felt that Purgatory was less rushed and had a better fleshed out narrative. I would say that the only thing I would say was lacking was the main villain's motivation. You are after them due to a murder they committed but by the end I can't really say it was well explained why they did it or what they had hoped to gain from it. Purgatory also added a depression factor to the things to manage along with rage, willpower, etc. It was an interesting addition but to be fair the game would have worked just as well without it and it was very easy to keep in check. I also have to wonder what the developers have against the citizens of Poland. In both Werewolf games so far the people of Poland are depicted largely as hostile and antagonistic and the protagonists are foreigners who come in to tell them how to run their affairs and enter their country illegally. Just seems like the developers have a very specific message to say and an axe to grind. I played Purgatory on Linux. It never crashed and I didn't notice any spelling errors or any bugs. The save system was the same auto save system used in other Different Tales games. I still think it could have been better. It has one save slot that gets saved over each time. One improvement is that the game now tells you when it's saving where heart of the Forest didn't. I would have preferred a manual save system with multiple slots. The game ran great and the issue with high GPU usage that heart of the Forest had has been fixed for me. VRAM usage was much higher in Purgatory than in heart of the Forest but it's nothing even low end GPUs can't manage. There is a setting for resolution and one other graphics option. Game Engine: Unity Graphics API: OpenGL Disk Space Used: 1.1 GB Game Version Played: 1.0.13 (GOG) Input Used: Keyboard and Mouse Game Settings Used: 2560x1440, highest GPU Usage: 6-49 % VRAM Usage: 1392-1627 MB CPU Usage: 4-8 % System RAM Usage: 2.4-2.8 GB If you enjoy visual novels, the work of Different Tales, and the lore of White Wolf then I would easily recommend Purgatory. I may have taken issue with a few things but the game is solid and is easily Different Tales best work to date. I finished it in two hours and thirty seven minutes. I paid $9.60 CAD for it and feel that even the normal price of $22.02 CAD isn't a bad spot for it. My Score: 8/10 My System: Intel i5-12600K | 32GB DDR4-3200 CL16 | Gigabyte RX 7800 XT 16GB | Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB | Artix | Dasharo 1.1.1 | Mate 1.28.2 | Kernel 6.10.3-artix1-1 | Mesa 24.1.5-arch1.2 | MSI G2730QPF 2560*1440 @ 165hz |
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