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Isabella Chasing Shadows

  • Writer: Roger
    Roger
  • Mar 17, 2024
  • 3 min read

Solving The Past And The Current

After a sudden accident and a trip away from home, you have finally come back feeling all right again. But only to have it lead you to solve the past crime that caused the accident and never was found.

Find out what happened and who was the origin of the cause, while also dealing with the current issue that might be connected to what happened in the past.



Story - Content


The story is about our main character coming back after their leave for a year or two after their fiancé didn’t make it back from her walk because of a hit-and-run. The police couldn’t figure out who was responsible and, after a long while, had to put down the case.


Now back and feeling better, our main character meets some old friends and encounters some new ones. All I can say is that there will be spicy moments and secrets unfolding. You will learn more about our main characters past but also about the current mystery that is ongoing.


Find out what happened to your ex-fiancé and find out what is happening now; could they be connected by any chance? Does it all lead down to something that was going on in the past?

What secrets did she hide from you, and what secrets might hide from you from your newly encountered friends?

Experience the astounding animations and the existing and thrilling story of the whole game.



Visual & Audio


Visuals

Character Graphical Texture

Once I first saw the characters close up, their skin looked so realistic, along with the small blinking animations and time-to-time breathing animations.

The texture of their skin, their eyes—just the quality. It looked highly realistic; the skin looked a bit moist and soft, with the exact same texture and visual touch as any other real body would look like.


Animation

The animations in the game are very well made; some are hard work, while others are a bit more simple.

The devs added blinking to some of the characters during scenes, so without the player proceeding to the next scene, the character(s) in front of them will automatically blink.

This is a small but very big addition to the game during scenes, giving them more life without having to skip to the next scene where it is simply an animation scene.


Movie Clips

Some animation scenes will quickly pop up a text before playing, saying “playing movie clip.” These scenes appear mainly during car rides and such. The movie clips are more clunky than other animations; the player can both see and feel how clunky the animation is, but it’s still quite good.

It happens more often during longer driving animations where there is a long scene that switches view points.


Intimate Scenes

Then, completely opposite from the movie clips, there are the intimate scenes, which are a lot smoother, clean, realistic, specific, and dedicated.

Both the characters show breathing mechanics—no parts colliding with each other and accurate movement and penetration. As most games either have a smooth movement animation or just scene by scene, I’ve never seen this accurate body movement mechanic. Their bodies show the pleasure they’re feeling and how fluids attach to or drip from their bodies.


Long story short, I am very fascinated by the animations during the intimate scenes and how accurate and dedicated they are.


Audio

Music & Sound

The sound effects inside the game sound very good and are suitable for fitting occasions, but there have been times when the sound effect could have ended but instead been dragged out to more scenes in other rooms or occasions too.


For the music, its pretty surrounding electrical keyboard. The music uses the same instruments most of the time, but the rhythms change to different melodies. And they all sound very good—something that just fits the game itself.



Pros and Cons


Pros

  • Story

  • Music & Audio

  • Animations & Visuals

  • Character build/texture


Cons

  • The “Movie Clips”

  • Minor collisions



My final little thoughts

Out so far that I’ve played from the game, the story is quite good and isn’t revealing too much of the past or the current state but slowly unfolding in an exciting way.

And as I said over in the visuals, I am astounded by the animations. That was the first thing I got amazed by. Even though the “movie clips” might be a bit clunky, like an unsmooth stop-motion animation, they're still very good.

So all in all, I highly recommend this game and hope more people will try it out.



Rating: 9/10



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