Va-ll Hall-a || Review

Initial release date: June 21, 2016
Engine: GameMaker: Studio
Designer: Christopher Ortiz
Developers: Sukeban Games, Wolfgame
Genres: Simulation Video Game, Visual novel

''Time to mix drinks and change lives.''

First of all, it reflects what kind of situations does a bartender face while working at a bar. This part was my favourite because I liked the reality within the game. You are a bartender at Va-ll Hall-a Bar in ''Glitch City'' of a distopia world. While serving drinks to people, you have the change about learning their stories, secrets and much more of these information. So... Pour your drink, take a sip, relax and enjoy the game!

Beside that, its illustrations and humourous part and references (As you can see it from its name though.) of the game were good and its ending system was quite different. If you ask why, it is because your CHOICES during chats doesn't effect your ending. It's the DRINKS you made.
Isn't it kinda impressive? While most story lines of these non-linear, multiple ending games are based on the players' choices but here, it doesn't directly play the big role. And I am not even talking about its weird characters with weird tastes and preferences. Lol.

    Basically, all you need is preparing drinks by using the guide is given to you and serving them to your customers. You gain money by serving the right cocktails or other alcoholic beverages according to your customers' preferences. Just like the real bartenders.

However, it is not always that easy to figure out what your customers want and can be satisfied with. After a point, you need to know some customers' specific beverages and serve it by your own guess. It can be found out from your dialogues between you and your customers but the thing is... Oh man. They talk too much sometimes and you literally listen everything they talk about.

Also, you use the money which you from the bar for buying several stuffs. It's not totally needed to buy everything from the market but you must if you want to get the achievements or trophies. (Of course, it is for steam or other platforms' users.) And you must buy some of them because they are required while serving drinks to some specific customers.

Oh, by the way... As I've mentioned in the beginning of the post, be careful about the drinks you prepare and your customers' preferences. Otherwise... You might not be satisfied or disappointed by the ending.

There was something which I really liked about the game... It has CRT screen option -the kinds of screen where you can find in usually retro games- and also, it's known that the game is inspired from old Japanese adventure games in specifically PC-98. This mean it gives you an experience by having some touches from old meanwhile it was made in a modern engine. I guess combining old stuff with advanced technology is pretty appreciable every time because the nostalgia feeling it gives is beautiful.

In general, the game has average fun and nice fiction but it is really so easy to get bored. So, I am not sure that I can say 'ohh, it is an amazing gameeee' but at least, it got some interesting game play for an average game.

My rating: 4/5