The Lion's Song

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User Score
7.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 30 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 30
  3. Negative: 3 out of 30

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  1. El_Manco
    May 20, 2018
    8
    Otro de esos juegos bonitos. Vale la pena apostar por este tipo de juegos, aunque no sea para todo el mundo. Magnífico.
  2. PublicNuisance
    Mar 18, 2019
    9
    I was a bit hesitant about The Lion’s Song because I don’t always enjoy point and click games. Lucky for me it’s a narrative game not a puzzle game. The difference being that you aren’t spending your time trying to find keys or figure out the order in which to press buttons. Instead you will be advancing the story through dialogue choices with the odd time where you will have to figure outI was a bit hesitant about The Lion’s Song because I don’t always enjoy point and click games. Lucky for me it’s a narrative game not a puzzle game. The difference being that you aren’t spending your time trying to find keys or figure out the order in which to press buttons. Instead you will be advancing the story through dialogue choices with the odd time where you will have to figure out a correct answer to procede but it is never difficult.

    The story was fantastic and really tied together nicely by the end. You will follow a different protaganist each chapter and in the final chapter will see how their stories tied together and concluded. Each chapter you usually get to interact with one of the other characters showing you a different perspective of their story. The audio was very well done as well, I could listen to the soundtrack any time. The game doesn’t have any voice acting but I don’t mind that. I would rather no voice acting than bad voice acting.

    I played the game on Linux. It didn’t crash on my once. I noticed no glitches or bugs. I played version 421_20576 from GOG. There were no graphics options at all. Not even reoslution. It is a pixel graphics style game so it was never going to look modern but it would have still been nice to have the option to sharpen it up a bit with AA or something. The game doesn’t support manual saving but luckily the checkpoints aren’t very far apart and are clearly marked. The game never lagged on me at all and didn’t need much horsepower. It used typically 1-2% of my CPU and while playing my system used about 1.5GB of RAM total. Alt-Tab worked fine with the game.

    I recommend The Lion’s Song to anyone seeking a good story. You owe it to yourself to at least check out he first episode which is free on Steam. Each episode takes about an hour to complete, a bit less or more depending on the player. I paid $13.99 CAD for the complete season but would easily say it is worth $25.

    My score: 9/10

    My System:

    AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16GB DDR4-3000 CL15 | MSI RX 580 8GB Gaming X | Mesa 18.3.4 | Manjaro Mate | Kernel 5.0.1-1-MANJARO    … Expand
  3. umud_abdulov
    May 17, 2021
    10
    First of all, I want to say: Goosebumps! From the beginning when u hear The Lion's song until the end. Mostly I want to talk about the feelings I got for the game. For the people who love pixel art and the vibe of the early 20 century, this game is a piece of cake and must play.
    The storyline is so completed and every chapter сomplements each other! Characters are strong and well thought    First of all, I want to say: Goosebumps! From the beginning when u hear The Lion's song until the end. Mostly I want to talk about the feelings I got for the game. For the people who love pixel art and the vibe of the early 20 century, this game is a piece of cake and must play.
    The storyline is so completed and every chapter сomplements each other! Characters are strong and well thought out. That was a great pleasure to look at their lives from the outside, and one thing that really made me admire is not getting bored in quiet moments of the plot. That's what I call art.
    Art... the people who also appreciate the Game Industry as the art will definitely like this game. As a good piece of masterpiece art, this game inspired me to continue making music. This is the greatest part of gaming we all adore, isn't it?    … Expand
  4. hajhjshjahjasha
    May 28, 2021
    10
    Saying that I loved it is an understatement!
    This game had great graphics with lots of details despite it being only pixel art.
    The colour scheme was perfect and the audio was so fitting especially the melodies! This game taught you about the real world and what struggles people go through. I absolutely loved how you felt involved in the character's accomplishments despite you not    Saying that I loved it is an understatement!
    This game had great graphics with lots of details despite it being only pixel art.
    The colour scheme was perfect and the audio was so fitting especially the melodies!
    This game taught you about the real world and what struggles people go through.
    I absolutely loved how you felt involved in the character's accomplishments despite you not doing much.
    I absolutely loved this game and I find it sad that there's not many games like this.    … Expand

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Metascore
77

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Adventure Gamers
    Oct 9, 2018
    60
    Well-versed in early 1900s Viennese culture, The Lion’s Song practically plays itself, so the main draw of this four-part interactive anthology is its beautiful sense of time and place.
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  2. GameCritics
    Sep 25, 2017
    80
    While the fourth chapter disappoints with superfluous wrapup and temporal confusion, the three other chapters of The Lion’s Song offer engaging tales of creative struggle and triumph. In their best moments, they convey the sense of being in a city enjoying the full bloom of artistic and intellectual development, where new sciences and new approaches to art might connect and transform each other, and that’s a kind of excitement games rarely capture.
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  3. CGMagazine
    Aug 22, 2017
    95
    A moving and earnest independent adventure game. My favorite thing I’ve played all year.
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