The Agony strikes me as a visual novel that had a good amount of potential. It has an interesting back story, some interesting characters andThe Agony strikes me as a visual novel that had a good amount of potential. It has an interesting back story, some interesting characters and a good amount of choices but overall it doesn’t put it all together. The story doesn’t come to any real conclusion or even a cliffhanger, it just ends. No resolution given to many plot points. Many of the characters were well written but just go away with no explanation. There’s just too many loose ends to overlook. There are a good amount of choices as I mentioned but there are also a bunch that lead to a game ending death so those ones aren’t real choices. The text was pretty well done. You can tell it was written by someone to whom English wasn’t their native language so the sentence structure or wording was strange at times but you could tell what they meant and the spelling was great.
I played The Agony on Linux. It opened on the wrong monitor and had to be moved over to my main monitor manually. This is a bug with the engine though not the game. The Agony used the Ren’Py engine. It used up 179MB of disk space. Alt-Tab worked. It never crashed on me once.
I finished The Agony in 91 minutes. I paid $1.09 CAD for it and while it could be hard to argue value normally there are plenty of cheap or free visual novels that are better than this one. Overall I can’t complain about the price but would recommend many other visual novels before I got to The Agony.