Bai Qu won’t be a visual novel for everyone. It has but a few choices the whole story, I mean that literally as there are about 3. It isBai Qu won’t be a visual novel for everyone. It has but a few choices the whole story, I mean that literally as there are about 3. It is closer to a kinetic novel than a traditional visual novel. That being said the story is great and worth going through. To be fair I’m not sure if the game would have worked as well with more choices as the story path is so specific that involving much more user input may have lessened the impact that their story had so I choose not to get bent out of shape about it.
I didn’t notice any spelling errors although sometimes the translations came across worded quite weirdly. It’s a minor thing though as it didn’t keep me from enjoying the game or understanding what they emant to say. The game didn’t crash once on me or have any glitches. The art was well done and tasteful. Some visual novels just care about sex appeal where Bai Qu was more focussed on telling a good story which helped set it apart.
I played Bai Qu on 2 different distros of Linux and as I mentioned had zero issues on either. The two I used were Manjaro and Solus. It took me 7 hours to finish the game.
I would encourage anyone who enjoys visual novels, is looking for a deeper story and doesn’t mind a lack of user chocies to check Bai Qu out. You also get the developer’s older game Shan Gui. Bai Qu is listed as a sequel to that but it doesn’t share any characters.
My Score: 7.5/10
My Systems Used:
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 18.2.3 | Solus | Kernel 4.18.16-96.current
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