Even if the audio and text make it clear they are moving to stand closer, the graphics don’t change, and thus you get a static image. There are not even animations as they enter or move around. The characters themselves don’t react or emote at all, they’re just stock images that stand still. There’s one (maybe two) outfits for Evelyn but they don’t change at all. All the other characters are similarly dressed the same for a majority of the game. The main character Evelyn spends most of her time in a jacket and hoodie combo. These characters are nothing more than a single image. Most of the game focuses on rather mundane locations like a subway car, a coffee shop, or an office and show two-dimensional images of the characters talking. PresentationĮliza’s graphics are a bit plain for a game. At the same time, with Zachtronics having a large amount of unique and interesting games, this had me curious to see where they take the experience.

Most of their games have a minor story component to them, but to remove the entire gameplay part of the story and focus only on the Visual Novel concept is a huge departure for the studio. There have been programming computers in TIS-100, Exapunks, and Shenzen I/O, programming waldos in Spacechem and Magnum Opus, as well as even automating factories in Infinifactory. They are well known for their programming games where players solve puzzles through some form of instruction based gameplay. This is not what I would have expected from Zachtronics.

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