Diabolical Download Xbox
- risgavisoserfei
- Aug 13, 2019
- 4 min read
Updated: Mar 24, 2020
About This Game Start practicing your evil laugh! As the world's greatest criminal mastermind, choose a lair, hire a minion, and steal the world's largest ball of aluminum foil! (Or, destroy the world. FINE.)"Diabolical" is a 130,000-word interactive novel by Nick Aires, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.Famous, feared, or filthy rich—why not all three? You've got the money and the motives to build an evil empire worthy of the most ruthless villain the world has ever seen. Crush the good guys and terrorize the populace! Stamp a big red "FAIL" on your enemies' foreheads! Plunder your way to world domination – or sit back and pet your kitty while your henchmen do it for you.Will you be a high-tech daredevil, a ruthless military soldier, or an apparition terrifying to behold? What calling card will you leave at the scene of your crimes? Whatever your choices, the results will be diabolical. Play a villainous story of scheming, grandstanding, and laughing evilly. Interview and hire the best possible (or best available) minion. Decide when to use trickery, when to use force, and when to hide behind henchmen. Choose the ultimate, guaranteed-to-be-infamous nickname. Play as male or female, with straight, gay, and bisexual romance options. Destroy the world! 1075eedd30 Title: DiabolicalGenre: Indie, RPGDeveloper:Choice of GamesPublisher:Choice of GamesRelease Date: 6 Nov, 2015 Diabolical Download Xbox The problem with this story is that it runs like a typical game with bland plot points. While the choices seem interesting at first, you'll come to realize that the game has a fairly set path with barely noticable diviations. I would not recommend this choose-your-own-adventure novel over "Choice of Robots" and the like. As the interactive books genre goes, the game is one of the best of its kind to be currently found on Steam. Allows you to be a villain - you know, to kill hamsters, terrorize breadmakers, exterminate ancient lemur nation and generally have a good time... well, perhaps not the hamsters thing =). Do I like Diabolical? Yes, absolutely, but it's not a game that I could ever recommend. The writing is good, entertaining, and occasionally funny, but all too often the game railroads you into different choices. You'll be given a list of options, but the response will almost always be "He isn't really listening" or "You thought I was serious?" What feel like major decisions are quickly made irrelevant by randomly changing circumstances, and you never get the chance to truly direct your villain. The character decides their own overarching goal or plan, and you pick the specifics, which seems to me to be the opposite of what one would want from a game like this. Diabolical can be fun, but it doesn't offer nearly as much choice as you would want from a text-based game.. Diabolical is an interesting game. The first time i played i found it very amusing. The reason i can't recomend it is because the game makes you think that your choices matter when they really don't. In all "Choice of Games" games there is a certain level of railroading, in some instances it's almost unnoticable and not to much of a problem. However in Diabolical it goes way too far.Now i will be discussing some SPOILERS from this point onwards so read at your own risk.Most main character will survive untill the final act no matter what you do, making your choice irrelevant. There's a chapter in which your character has the option to kill another character, Even if you choose to kill him, you won't since your character got a change of heart suddenly. the worst offender is the ending, now i won't go into too much spoilers but let's just say that what ending you get is dependant only on your last choice, a.k.a. no choice up untill this one matters. And there are a lot of options for the ending so you better be reay to replay the game at leadt 8 times to get them all, even though you already know how everything will turn out regardless of your choices.And i know some will point out i have a load of time but that was just replaying so i can get all achievements.All in all i can't really recomend a choose your own adventure in which your choices don't matter.. This story doesn't take itself seriously and, if you want to enjoy it, you shouldn't either. You're in for a cartoony romp with a straightforward plot and lots and lots of deus ex machina if you play this game. I didn't enjoy as much as I thought I might but that was likely because I went in with the wrong attitude but I'm certain many people would find its silly and irreverent tone to be quite entertaining as long as they were aware of it before getting in too deep.. Remember those DOS games that was basically a story, with a set of commands for you to use for progression? This is the advanced verison of those old days, and damn isn't it good. I'm an avid reader, so this is pretty heavenly. Good humour, pacing, development and choices actually matter. Many endings, maybe too many in fact. Buy if you enjoy reading in the slightest.
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