Разработчик: Square Enix
Описание
Enter into the iconic monochrome world of Japanese manga and experience Tales of Wedding Rings, a story about an average high school student name Satou, who receives an unexpected email from Hime, the mysterious girl living next door, that leads to the adventure of a lifetime.
・Fully realized 3D world where environments and characters from the original manga are faithfully reproduced to achieve an unparalleled degree of immersion.
・LiveWindow view, a unique technology that renders 3D content in separate frames that allow multiple viewing angles, and also dynamically animate to achieve a unique narrative style like never before.
・3D sound and fully voiced by an ensemble cast.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, japanese
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: i7-4770 or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 or better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- VR Support: SteamVR
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: i7-4770 or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1080 or better
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Mac
Linux
Отзывы пользователей
This was very well done and great proof of concept for future adaptations. My only critique is that this was not the best source to adapt from for VR. Tales of Wedding Rings is very character driven and thus not much enhanced by being experienced in VR. If you were to instead adapt a manga / anime where the environment plays a much bigger part in the story telling i think seeing it in VR could bring the experience to a whole new level.
30 min introduction. It ends exactly where the actual plot is intended to start. Very disappointing :(
High potential on the other side, though, should they ever continue. Or maybe someone else picks up the idea, like Sphere Toon did (but also abandoned, afaik)
So i wont refund this time...
I love this manga and really looked forward to playing this in vr, but you cannot move around the environment and all, I am not as impressed as I thought I would be with the character models, and it is over in 30 minutes with no replayability. This game is worth $5, not $20.
It should have been a free promo for the manga. Even with the discounted price it doesn't worth it. There is great effort behind it, and it is exactly how a manga should look in 3D but it's still just a prologue and more than half of it is just frames instead of full screen scenes.
I think this title shows the potential of having VR movies. It also does it in the style of a manga. It sounds a bit weird but it was specifically made for this VR experience and it was made well. It brings you into their world and you get to watch it as if you were sitting next to the action invisible. Like most people I wish I could see the whole story played out, or at least a bit longer, but we get a unique experience we can't get anywhere else which to me justifies the price.
The story, animation, voice acting, music is all fine. What does stand out for this over other similar VR short experiences is the panel work. Being able to see the same scene from multiple perspectives is pretty unique. Certainly not worth full price but if you get it on a sale it's not a bad experience. Wish they'd follow up with more like it but it's pretty clear this was an experimental thing for them.
PROS: The experience is amazing. I loved the immersion. This is very unique format of media. Definitely worth trying and has an incredible potential.
CONS: Too short for the price point. I picked this up on a sale so I personally have no regrets but $20+ for 45mins of entertainment that can't be interacted with or shared seems a bit lacking. Additionally at the end I just found my self thirsting for Vol 2 which at this time doesn't exist. Additionally I hated that I had no control over the play aspect. I'd like to see a FF or Rewind option on the controls.
OVERALL: Find it on a sale cheap enough and I definitely recommend it as a different form of entertainment. I would love to see the developers keep this trend going and add it on as cheap DLC or even pickup other titles as well. If I could pick up each Vol for the same price point as a conventional paperback manga, I would happily pick it up every time as a regular release.
NOTE: it did crash on me early in the first play threw but after a quick restart I made it the 2nd time with no issues.
after selecting language, game does not work. can return to main menu but resume button does not do anything. black screen and broken. for shame squareenix.
Fantastic showcase of what could be the future of Manga reading/viewing. But sadly I doubt Squeenix has any intent on continuing with this. It's a quick little story, and not even in the slightest complete.
I don't know if I'd say it's worth full price, but it is fully voiced and animated. It's non interactive tho so thats a let down, they could've at least let you wander the set pieces some and choose when to proceed forward.
~ DIFFICULTY ~
✅ My 90 year old grandma could play it
🔲 Easy
🔲 Normal
🔲 Hard
🔲 Dark Souls
~ GRAPHICS ~
🔲 MS Paint
🔲 Bad
🔲 Meh
🔲 Graphics dont matter in this game
🔲 Good
✅ Beautiful (traditional black/white Manga style)
🔲 Masterpiece
~ MUSIC ~
🔲 Bad
🔲 Not special
🔲 Good
✅ Beautiful
~ STORY ~
🔲 This game has no story
🔲 Like playing Temple Runners for the story
🔲 It's there for the people who want it
✅ Well written
🔲 Epic story
🔲 Imagine Kingdom Hearts but on crack
~ PRICE ~
🔲 Free
🔲 Underpriced
🔲 Perfect Price
🔲 Could be cheaper
✅ Overpriced (Although I realize how much effort a game like this needs to be realized)
🔲 Complete waste of money
~ REQUIREMENTS ~
🔲 You can run it on a microwave
🔲 Average
✅ High end (for the VR part)
🔲 NASA computer
~ LENGTH ~
✅ Very Short (0 - 2 hours)
🔲 Short (2 - 15 hours)
🔲 Average (15-50 hours)
🔲 Long (50-90 hours)
🔲 Extremely long (90-110 hours)
🔲 No ending
~ FUN ~
🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry
🔲 Hard to enjoy
🔲 Repetitive
🔲 Actually pretty amusing
✅ The kind of fun you'll remember
🔲 Ride of your life
~ REPLAYABILITY~
✅ It's a one-time experience
🔲 Only for achievements
🔲 If you wait a few months/years
🔲 Definitely
🔲 Infinitely replayable
~ WORTH BUYING ~
🔲 No
✅ Wait for sale
🔲 Yes
NOTE:
I'd like to remind people that this is not a "game" like any other, it is more of a showcase of a "what if Manga was in VR and animated" situation. There is no gameplay, it is rather a visual novel. The entire experience is well worth my 30 minutes spent on this "game" because Im a vivid fan of manga and anime, in fact, I just ordered all 8 volumes of the paperwritten manga of this, but to speak for the average person, I want to remind you to not expect any sort of gameplay or lengthy experience out of this game. IF you like these sort of "watch" games, please get yourself a copy to support the developers and artists. They did a good job.
To be fair, this is only Chapter 1 of Tales of Wedding Rings. That being said, I still enjoyed the adaptation with a handful of 360 degree scenes and all comic panels animated and dynamic. The soundtrack adds to the emotion, and the voice acting seems great (though I am not e fluent speaker, I still understood a lot of it and and enjoyed the tone conveyed by the characters. I hope they choose to continue the adaptation.
...And, they did not. The amazing concept of an immersive Manga died on the vine. good luck Square Eniix with you next FF game. Would have loved to seee a continuatio on this one...
Short 30min play through of the 1st chapter of this wonderful manga, Visually this walk through is breathtaking and the graphics are 10/10, also thou it isn’t listed as supported it does work with the Oculus Rift S headset and controllers
It's basicaslly a 30 minutes tech demo.
I must say, I like the idea of this fully voiced 3D manga.
Would like to see more of this story too.
But if they are going to make this an actual series, there would need to be much more content for the price.
And also some save/load/continue feature.
Looking forward to see where we will end up here.
"Where's the rest?"
That pretty much sums up my entire feeling afterwards. Don't get me wrong, being "inside" an anime was pretty awesome, from just looking around in scenes, to looking up skirts. I really enjoyed what was there, but it was a demo at best. I thought my game was frozen at some intro credits, but looking at the reviews here, I discovered it was ending credits. This is definitely not worth it, this should've been a free demo. I bought it at 50% off and I still feel ripped off. As cool as the idea is, I can't recommend this lame demo selling as a product.
Such a cute movie! I really enjoyed it! It does have full room VR and you're going to want to enable it. As long as you go into this with the right expectations that this is a movie I think you're going to enjoy it as I did. It being a movie, you can expect it to be much shorter than a videogame so make sure you buy it with the right expectations. It has the great quality that you would expect from a Square enix title and it's clear a lot of time was spent perfecting the little details. It's VR so you can get up close and look around, including peering into the different panels at different angles. I think it's a really cool concept. I hope Square Enix makes more VR movies like this in the future. I will definitely buy them.
Also, DON'T WATCH THE TRAILERS & COMMENTARY tied to this game in Steam from the creators until AFTER you play the game. There are spoilers!
Pro:
Good quality VR animation.
Cons:
The duration of the video is 30 minutes.
Monochrome manga-style animation. It's like anime but in BLACK AND WHITE.
The video doesn't even cover the entire first chapter of the 44-chapter manga as of the time of this review.
It only covers up to (but not including) where Satou steps into the other world from the portal (i.e. less than half of the first chapter).
I wanted more bang for my buck. Imagine paying full price for a season of your favorite 12-episode tv show...only to find that the product inside contained exactly 1 episodes. This is basically unfinished, not even half-assed anime. Seriously...1 episode is NOT worth the $ you pay for this product.
The anime should be released soon. Go buy that instead of this rubbish.
Wow! What an amazing experiance.
That being said, the price makes it not worth it. There is about 30 min of playtime and then thats it. The title and description are missleading at best. It leads one to believe that this would be a full/extended experieance, not a partial or showcase. If the title was updated to say Tales of Wedding Rings Chapter 1 VR or the description mentioned that it only plays through chapter 1. I would be understand, but even then at $20 its still to costly.
Save your money and get the books instead.
As a manga lover I love the idea here. The presentation is good, and having read the manga I like the story. I am pretty disappointed though that it is only 30 minutes long, basically just the intro to the story not even covering the whole first chapter of the manga (37 pages out of 60 about) and it still costs $20. Overall I would definitely like to see a continuation but hopefully either longer or not as expensive as this.
Played through it twice. Was very impressed by the full presentation. It's a blast to play and just observe as panels come into and out of focus -- sometimes englufing you along with it. The price is steep but it's such a unique experience I could easily recommend.
As much as I want to love this, I can't.
It's a great showcase of what could be possible, but this one episode VR manga is finished before you can blink, after 30 minutes we are left with the main character just spinning in space, kicking a few times as if he is dying.
Seriously. As this stands, it works out to be US$20 for 30 short minutes and that's it, it's over with no real re-playability.
Square could have chosen a waaaaay better story then this one, and they could have certainly made it longer then just one episode, 4 or 5 episodes at least so it's on par with a movie. And they could have added a way to move about the sets. As it stands, while you can pause a few of these scenes and look at them completely surrounding you, there is no real explorability in it. You are still just an observer.
Not what I expected, while the idea is great, I was super dissapointed with the high cost and short 30 minute duration.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Square Enix |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 30.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 75% положительных (36) |