The House in Fata Morgana - Dreams of the Revenants Edition -

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8.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 860 Ratings

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  1. Jogas
    Jul 14, 2021
    1
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Contiene una historia muy plana y repetitiva, no abarca muchos personajes secundarios y no profundiza, es un juego muy repetitivo y no innovador… Expand
  2. Merudi
    Jun 27, 2021
    4
    I personally think it's fine for visual novels to be loyal to the name, and be a novel with visuals and music rather than contain gameplay elements. In fact I really like that. My issue is mainly with how incredibly tedious the story is and how hard it is to relate to some characters, who are often either cliché, annoying or just have the weirdest logic. The last chapter was actually goodI personally think it's fine for visual novels to be loyal to the name, and be a novel with visuals and music rather than contain gameplay elements. In fact I really like that. My issue is mainly with how incredibly tedious the story is and how hard it is to relate to some characters, who are often either cliché, annoying or just have the weirdest logic. The last chapter was actually good though, as was the ending. The soundtrack is good as well, aside from some tracks. I cannot give this game a high score however, because of incredibly difficult it was to get through the first 80% of the game, which seemed to drag on forever.… Expand
  3. Verdade
    Jun 9, 2021
    2
    Jogo razoável, um pouco lento e ruim de angrense. Jogo razoável, um pouco lento e ruim de angrense. Jogo razoável, um pouco lento e ruim de angrense. Jogo razoável, um pouco lento e ruim de angrense.
  4. vidicallin
    Aug 7, 2021
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. https://lbj.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/webform/the-conjuring-Watch-online-August-09.pdf… Expand
  5. Jesus011
    Oct 10, 2021
    5
    no tiene sentido la nota de este juego. Dudo bastante que sea por creces superior a casi cualquier juego en la historia.
  6. Yuzumi_Yukine
    Nov 17, 2021
    10
    The art, the music, the atmosphere, all are suitable and perfect. It is one of the best visual novels out there.
  7. Fashionisdanger
    Dec 24, 2021
    10
    The best VN I haver played.
    Stunning soundtrack.
    Great art.
    Mind-blowing, emotional and intense story.
    In my opinion, a true and mature masterpiece.
  8. Joriss
    Feb 3, 2022
    1
    The Visual novel genre is something difficult to understand and it's clearly not for everyone. But that goes for any genre, you can't be a fan of everything out there. That said, when something gets the highest of praise it can be just enough to get you to learn and fall love with a genre you weren't keen on before. Is The House in Fata Morgana that game? Well no, it isn’t.

    This has    The Visual novel genre is something difficult to understand and it's clearly not for everyone. But that goes for any genre, you can't be a fan of everything out there. That said, when something gets the highest of praise it can be just enough to get you to learn and fall love with a genre you weren't keen on before. Is The House in Fata Morgana that game? Well no, it isn’t.

    This has nothing to do with this game lacking actually gameplay elements. A visual novel game that contains only a story to click through can be perfectly fine if the story is good enough and the visuals, music, sound and text all complaint the story. But House in Fata Morgana fails in doing that by several ways. For one, it's far too long. But that has to do with its pacing. Almost 50% of its text doesn't need to be there. Something happens, a character says something and then the exact progress repeats itself with text just being slightly different to feel new while you’re just being reminded of the thing that just happened or has been said. Is a character evil? Here are several scenes to show you just how evil he or she is, even though it was obvious from the start. Or things are being described while there is no need for it. This is a visual novel, so we see the characters and the background so there’s no need for descriptions of what we see and yet this happens constantly. Everything gets stretches out far more than it needs to be and that causes this game to feel incredibly slow and more like quantity over quality.

    It’s structure is also not good. You start as a character who doesn’t know who he or she is so the chapters are treated as memories, so after several chapters it is implied that you’ve regained your memory and the story ends there (and you can choose so, for a very lousy ending) only for it actually be just the beginning of this tale. Even one of these memories is called out by the main character as bad so why did the game made us sit through a useless, boring memory if only for it to be a twist? And that’s what this story relies on too heavily, twists. Twists just for the sake of twists. You’ll quickly become so use to them that nothing feels shocking anymore (and that while this game deals with some very dark themes) and the twists serve little to no purpose other than to make things feel ‘scary’.

    The art and music also doesn’t stand out. It’s very basic. Backgrounds are bland stock photos and the characters look like they’ve been drawn by several different artists who didn’t align their artwork together. The music is more annoying than pleasant and it only gets stuck in your head because it keeps looping like crazy.

    House in Fata Morgana is not good. It is strange that it gets such high praise while it clearly has some huge flaws. It is a story with dark moments, yet it is written as if it is for children. I can only give it credit for keeping me curious at the start, with the promise of it becoming better later on and it all to be worth it. But it doesn't. If you’re not of a fan of the genre, this will not change your mind.    … Expand
  9. Thanos_e-girl
    Jan 23, 2023
    0
    Boring, horrible, ugly, overrated, **** everybody that likes this game, THIS IS PURE OVERRATED TRASH
  10. Meta_Bro
    Jun 7, 2022
    0
    96/100?! That’s 1 point off from amazing games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, GTA 4 & 5, Red Dead Redemption II and some Tony Hawk games! And don’t worry, I’m not just hating on it for the sake of it, it’s bad too. It’s literally just a visual novel with BARELY any interactivity, if this was like DDLC where you still do you’re own thing that’d be96/100?! That’s 1 point off from amazing games like Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, GTA 4 & 5, Red Dead Redemption II and some Tony Hawk games! And don’t worry, I’m not just hating on it for the sake of it, it’s bad too. It’s literally just a visual novel with BARELY any interactivity, if this was like DDLC where you still do you’re own thing that’d be fine, but no, you have NOTHING to do with the plot, it’s basically a movie at that point… SO WHY NOT JUST MAKE A MOVIE?! Long story short isn’t as good as Sonic 06 or some dumb joke… Expand
  11. blazeolmo
    Jun 8, 2022
    2
    No gameplay, you just read text. If you really want to read a lot of text and at least have a bit of gameplay play pokemon rangers
  12. ThaDucks
    Jun 8, 2022
    0
    its a visual novel and is no where near the leagues of botw and odyssey so it just should not be rated near them
  13. Andruscefine
    Jun 8, 2022
    0
    This isn't a game. How come Citizen Kane isn't on the best games of all time list?
  14. HelloStranger
    Jun 9, 2022
    3
    it's a goodish visual novel, and only attractive to a very small niche. Personally, I didn't enjoy it, and I don't believe this game should be ranked this high.
  15. Nintendist
    Jun 30, 2022
    0
    this game has a annoying soundtrack and a terrible gameplay. i wonder why they make this game
  16. lucinhagamer
    Aug 25, 2022
    0
    this game is boring. the gameplay is not good. anything here is so bad, dont like it
  17. GRAFAIAI
    Sep 1, 2022
    0
    terrible gameplay, this game is so lazy and is really not good it all, very boring
  18. GameBoy0640
    Sep 12, 2022
    0
    After playing the game I can still taste sh-t in my mouth this thing was so bad that if you wanted a good time might as well buy it just to break it the story is bad and my thumb is sore from pressing A so much
  19. fredijuts
    Jan 31, 2023
    0
    This game is a complete and utter disaster, failure, stinky **** of a game. If one of my friends says that his favourite game is this i would hire a hitman to kill them because they don’t deserve to live anymore.
  20. h2theizzo
    May 18, 2023
    0
    trash game trash game trash game trash game trash game trash game trash game trash game
  21. ejoseph
    Jul 3, 2023
    10
    I want the developers over this game to create another masterpiece. I didn’t think I could enjoy a visual novel but I loved the storytelling and art in this. Story is top-tier.
  22. MRMOON
    Dec 15, 2021
    10
    It's an evolution of storytelling in any entertainment product. Unparalleled craftsmanship in writing, creating mystery, and atmosphere. The horrific story turns will blow up your mind . Fata Maroqa is the pinnacle of visual novels.
  23. Bidoulou
    Feb 15, 2022
    10
    This game is one of the most wonderful story in a visual novel. It's a tragedy from start to end, and nothing will make you smile. This game includes the main story, a prequel story which is glossed over in the main story, and a switch only post story about some characters. The music is great, and i'd speak for the fact that the 3 first chapters of the main story are the slowest ones,This game is one of the most wonderful story in a visual novel. It's a tragedy from start to end, and nothing will make you smile. This game includes the main story, a prequel story which is glossed over in the main story, and a switch only post story about some characters. The music is great, and i'd speak for the fact that the 3 first chapters of the main story are the slowest ones, because they establish context of a really complex tragedy.… Expand
  24. PPko
    Sep 30, 2022
    5
    Having finally reached a proper ending, I'm left with very mixed feelings.
    It started off nicely with enough mystery and intrigue to reel me in. The writing was a bit stilted but didn't bother me at first. The story, at its core, is truly compelling. The way the seemingly unconnected stories slowly unravel and interweave is incredibly impressive but there is so much redundancy and    Having finally reached a proper ending, I'm left with very mixed feelings.
    It started off nicely with enough mystery and intrigue to reel me in. The writing was a bit stilted but didn't bother me at first. The story, at its core, is truly compelling. The way the seemingly unconnected stories slowly unravel and interweave is incredibly impressive but there is so much redundancy and unnecessary sub-plot. I don't feel like any of the "choices" it occasionally offers do anything but sandbag the reader if unlucky enough to pick the wrong option. There are some really exciting moments, but, man, does it drag. The plentiful dialogue feels unnaturally bloated the way a lot of Japanese-translated games do. The final climax was intense and emotional. I was on the edge of my seat, tears welling up in my eyes - very moving stuff - but then it just kept going! On and on, cast credits, epilogue upon epilogue, staff credits, more epilogue. A proper narrator and a discriminating editor would have done this game so much good! It would have been better as a regular novel in my opinion.
    I went in with an open mind and tempered expectations but it was a bumpy ride for all its high points.    … Expand
  25. Bazzak
    Feb 10, 2022
    10
    Incredible. I have no words to describe how good this visual novel is. I used to read quite a bit and this would be one of the best things ive ever read as a standalone novel. If it helps, my background and tastes are that of a single-player western and jrpg story driven gamer or rpg-like games like god of war.

    There can be pacing issues esp near the beginning but stick through it. It    Incredible. I have no words to describe how good this visual novel is. I used to read quite a bit and this would be one of the best things ive ever read as a standalone novel. If it helps, my background and tastes are that of a single-player western and jrpg story driven gamer or rpg-like games like god of war.

    There can be pacing issues esp near the beginning but stick through it. It hits you right in the feels and all i wish is that novectacle develops more than these. If youre listening novectacle this is art, please!    … Expand
  26. Loosing
    Sep 1, 2022
    10
    The best VN i have played!! You need to be so numb as **** to give 0-3 score like the kids in this site lol.
  27. nep321
    Apr 9, 2023
    9
    Excellent story, although convoluted at times. It's over a year since I finished this "game" and it has definitely been memorable.
  28. jokingSammy
    Jul 30, 2021
    0
    Recently finished 9.9.9, am playing Danganronpa, and so recently bought this because it's the "best game on Switch". Not even by its own genre standards, this is not a good visual novel. Less player engagement than the previously mentioned games, and from a visual novel perspective very dull and slow in terms of pacing. This feels more like an illustrated book than an interactive novel. IRecently finished 9.9.9, am playing Danganronpa, and so recently bought this because it's the "best game on Switch". Not even by its own genre standards, this is not a good visual novel. Less player engagement than the previously mentioned games, and from a visual novel perspective very dull and slow in terms of pacing. This feels more like an illustrated book than an interactive novel. I do not understand the high rating this is getting.… Expand
  29. dampflokfreund
    Jan 3, 2022
    10
    It's a visual novel, so it's very light on gameplay. Think of it more like a book with some visuals and an unbelievable soundtrack.

    If you like a deep complex story and character interactions, definately check this out. It is definately the best VN I've ever played.
  30. Dial1010
    Aug 30, 2021
    10
    This is one of the greatest games I have ever played, an amazing and engaging experience. 5 Stars, 100/100, 10/10, not a single doubt.

    However, I’m using the term “game” broadly. I have seen those stupid clickbait articles saying “Is Fata Morgana better than Zelda BotW or Mario Odyssey?” or some other ridiculous variation… And I believe the answer is that you can’t compare THIFM with    This is one of the greatest games I have ever played, an amazing and engaging experience. 5 Stars, 100/100, 10/10, not a single doubt.

    However, I’m using the term “game” broadly. I have seen those stupid clickbait articles saying “Is Fata Morgana better than Zelda BotW or Mario Odyssey?” or some other ridiculous variation… And I believe the answer is that you can’t compare THIFM with what people traditionally think of as “game”. It sounds weird, but this game does not have gameplay at all, no great bosses, no level design… In fact, not even compared with other graphic novels I have played, in which there are way more decision points and timed choices or weird control maneuvers to spice things up gameplay-wise… There is not much of that here. I see why some people do not consider it a game in the strict sense. So be careful, because even if it is a great game, maybe it is not your cup of tea.

    THIFM is more like a book, a more innovative book that not only provides the story through plain text, but gives you also great and immersive music, art, and a sense of aesthetics and presentation that fits the general atmosphere of each section (happy, scary, nostalgic, dramatic) and takes the story to the next level. I believe the developer takes a traditional book, and elevates it using all these different aspects made available by the gaming platform (pacing, delivery, presentation, music, art…) very effectively, creating an amazing experience. I’m confident this story (if properly written and paced) would have been great in a traditional book… I mean, the story in itself is great! But the other ingredients make it much better, much in the same way that a tabletop game sometimes feels better and new in a console thanks to quirks and design decisions that expand on the concept.

    THIFM is long; it starts as if you will see a series of short stories, and unfolds slowly towards what ends up being a long and intricate narrative. For me it was a bit frustrating as I wanted to finish it and finally discover what the whole deal was about, so when other chapters kept appearing it felt a bit like grinding. I wish I knew in advance its expected length, I’d have enjoyed it more… In a book you know how many pages are left so you have some awareness of how much is still ahead… With the game it is different, and it was difficult for me to have a general idea of how much progress I was making, as I felt I was about to finish and boom! Another 10 hours of gameplay…

    THIFM takes its time to present its characters and unfold its story. Sometimes it felt as if there was a dialogue between characters that was unnecessary and not moving the plot forward… You are all engaged and wanting to see how everything will fit and the characters end up talking about roses or how nice the sea was or how long it will take for a train to be ready… So in that aspect it might feel a bit longer than needed. However, I believe this is a crucial aspect of the game, as it makes all characters and situation in each specific era feel more real and deep… Through this apparently superficial exchanges you get to know these characters intimately… They give you a glimpse of their fears, their wants, their internal conflicts… And that gives more power to the whole story… So, when you are presented with the more dramatic portions you really feel the rage and sadness as if all the awful things narrated happened to a dear friend.

    I played this game on my switch in portable mode, lying in bed all engrossed as 9 PM turned into 3 AM and I kept advancing and advancing… There are some portions of the game that I wish I had seen in TV mode, and I feel the game will be effective on any platform, as long as you give it time to grow and develop and take the story as it comes… If you love good stories and twists, try it and prepare for 30+ hours of great characters, settings and stories.

    TLDR; The House in Fata Morgana might not be for everyone, but if you love reading and like fiction, it is one of the greatest gaming experiences available on Nintendo Switch. Do not miss it!    … Expand
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Universal acclaim - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
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  1. Nintendo Life
    Dec 25, 2021
    90
    The House in Fata Morgana is over 40 hours long, and in those 40 hours, you'll maybe get to make about three decisions. It is a visual novel in the strictest sense of the word, and you must be prepared for that going in. But with a fantastic, original, slow-burn story about love, loss, hurt, forgiveness, and recovery, it's one of the best visual novels out there — and your patience will be paid off in the end.
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  2. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Oct 7, 2021
    85
    I think fans of gothic literature, visual novels and/ or engrossing stories will find something to love about this game. Just know that if you start it, you've got to reach the end to really appreciate what it has to offer. [Issue #55 – October 2021, p. 28]
  3. Pure Nintendo
    Jun 11, 2021
    80
    The House in Fata Morgana: Dreams of the Revenants Edition is a long and finely constructed visual novel. It promises an intricate plot of suspense, intrigue and revenge for anyone willing to commit forty or more hours to the story.
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