11-11: Memories Retold

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User Score
6.7

Mixed or average reviews- based on 39 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 39
  2. Mixed: 21 out of 39
  3. Negative: 5 out of 39

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  1. Winko
    Nov 23, 2019
    3
    Good:
    - The transitional effect that appears between scenes is halfway decent
    - Using different colored text to convey what can and cannot be understood by the player character is a smart way of tackling the dialect challenge - Pretty solid twist in the third chapter - There are a fair amount of endings to cycle through if you're intrested in seeing some different outcomes Mixed: -    Good:
    - The transitional effect that appears between scenes is halfway decent
    - Using different colored text to convey what can and cannot be understood by the player character is a smart way of tackling the dialect challenge
    - Pretty solid twist in the third chapter
    - There are a fair amount of endings to cycle through if you're intrested in seeing some different outcomes

    Mixed:
    - The camera mechanic is a neat idea for this kind of game, but quickly becomes stale once you realize they're not going to do anything intresting with it
    - Stupid bugs and performance issues kept me engaged and wondering what I could break next to keep myself entertained

    Bad:
    - The visuals look like hot diarrhea throught the entire game. What is supposed to be a unique water color style became a ineligible, blurring mess that seems to be masking half done environments and character models
    - The puzzles are brain numbingly simple and an absolute chore to work through
    - Half of the gameplay is just walking about until you find an item or the right person to speak to, which is difficult when games "aesthetic" makes it neig impossible to tell what you're even looking at most of the time
    - The story is boring and full of cliches, the characters share the same problems
    - Collectibles are integreated horribly and are hardly worth seeking after
    - The bird segments are god awful and require absolutely zero input from the player; consist solely of watching it fly for about 3 minutes over **** smeared landscapes
    - The story is full of baffling decisions made by the two main characters. A few examples are risk thier own life to track down a cat because they promised their daughter they could meet it, getting stuck on stage and improvising a dance, and building a hot air balloon, to name a few
    - The card game they have you play multiple times throughout the story is ridiculously easy and is zero fun    … Expand
  2. Sepherim
    Jun 17, 2020
    4
    11-11 Memories Retold es un experimento interesante pero, en mi opinión, fallido. El objetivo del juego es contar una historia dramática y humana en medio de la 1ª Guerra Mundial, cruzando para ello la vida y las obras de un soldado canadiense y uno alemán, mostrando con ello lo humanos que son ambos. Eso en principio está bien, pero va asentado en una historia que la verdad, al menos a mi11-11 Memories Retold es un experimento interesante pero, en mi opinión, fallido. El objetivo del juego es contar una historia dramática y humana en medio de la 1ª Guerra Mundial, cruzando para ello la vida y las obras de un soldado canadiense y uno alemán, mostrando con ello lo humanos que son ambos. Eso en principio está bien, pero va asentado en una historia que la verdad, al menos a mi no me ha resultado tan interesante y dramática como esperaba, y me ha dejado algo frío salvo en momentos puntuales. La jugabilidad es muy simple, explorar y ver cosas, hablar con gente y resolver pequeños puzzles.

    Gráficamente es otro punto relevante. Es obvio que está hecho por un estudio pequeño, que decidió hacer que el juego pareciese un cuadro impresionista o algo así. Lo cual está muy bien, les permite construir una estética muy propia sin necesidad de ir a los altos costes de unos gráficos de última generación. Pero el problema es que, al menos a mi, el resultado me cansó la vista brutalmente, con pixeles demasiado grandes que distorsionan todo y un efecto general muy repetitivo. El sonido cumple, por su lado, y al menos en mi experiencia el juego no ha tenido ningún bug.

    Por todo ello, 11-11 Memories Retold es un juego interesante y con ideas originales, pero que falla a la hora de ejecutarlas adecuadamente.    … Expand

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73

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 11
  3. Negative: 1 out of 11
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 6, 2019
    40
    11-11 is neither an example of good impressionist art, nor a good war movie or a good video game. It’s unbearably pretentious and so shallow it does not reach beyond simple platitudes (“not all Germans were evil”, “global conflicts affect ordinary people too”). It’s sad that brushing against a mature subject and going for an artsy feel is enough to make many people overlook obvious flaws of a game (in this case poor gameplay, among other things) and the fact that games as a medium are light years behind movies in terms of storytelling. [01/2019, p.74]
  2. Games.cz
    Jan 15, 2019
    60
    A brilliantly interwoven story of friendship and war is let down by simple gameplay and constant distractions. The few interesting mechanisms and a good script simply cannot carry the whole game on their back.
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  3. Ragequit.gr
    Nov 26, 2018
    90
    A performance masterclass, coupled with impeccable artistic direction and a gripping humanitarian narrative, 11-11: Memories Retold stands as one of the greatest anti-war games to ever grace the medium.
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