Anybody here played "The Sad Story of Emmeline Burns?"? This VN came up on Steam few days ago and caught my attention cause 1) it's yuri (never enough yuri!), 2) it's free.
I haven't played much VNs in my life (only one actually - Katawa Shoujo, baby's first VN XD), so my expectations are not as high as some of you. As for "Sad Story..." I wouldn't treat it as full-fledged game, since it's really short, linear and not as complex as many other titles, more like a demo of some sort? Some kind of draft? I dunno. Anyway, that's really nice of authors that they didn't charge anything for their title cause Steam (Greenlight particularly) is plagued by people who dare charging money for absolute trash: uninspired, often unplayable, filled with bugs and glitches, made of pre-made assets cobbled together without any effort what so ever.
And as far as "Sad Story..." is not a masterpiece, I feel genuine effort in this title and I could imagine authors pulling at least decent game in the future. Story has good premise (although it's kinda predictable at some points, it's overall well... sad and sometimes even cute), characters are surprisingly fleshed out for such a short title (and they look so pretty!) and there's even character development of main heroine in the end. If you can spare two hours, you can play it - just don't expect too much. I would rate this game 6/10, maybe even 7, cause like I said I feel some effort and story is still better than many of the titles here, on dynasty XD. Not a life changing experience definetely, but I don't feel like I wasted my time.
