C.H.A.I.N.G.E.D.

How did you make background animated?

Is anything supposed to happen in LUCY aside from a single phone call? After the very first phone call nothing happens and I can't do anything.

Hello

Looks nice

okay, theres a LOT to unpack here. but first i want to start with some rankings.

THE BEST 

DEJA VOID

DAMIENT

THE END OF IT ALL (PINK SWIRL GAME)

THE ND

GREAT

SUNK COSTS

UNBOUND

S.S.C

KYOTO 1986

VESSEL

GENESIS

LUCYFACE

DISTANT STATIC

IF I COULD START AGAIN

SHOWDOWN

BACK HOME

OUROS

THE UNRAVELLING

TAXI

WHAT LIES IN WAIT

TRANSPORT STRUGGLE

GOOD

BLUE LIGHT

EXECUTIVE ORDER

ASCEND

SUNK COST

HOLY HALLS OF GOD

BAD

TIME HARRIER

FALLEN FROM GRACE

DECISIONS 

FUCKING TERRIBLE

THE GOLF WAR

I KNOW THE END

SCRATCHED OUT

UNPLAYABLE

WEIGHT OF THE GENERATIONS

LUCY

I LAUGHED OUT LOUD

FIN.

so, now the rankings are out of the way, lets talk about the story

fuck yeah the story is good

somehow, in some way, you guys made a somewhat coherent (disregard hall of the god) story. i loved every second of it and i loved the in universe explanation for why everything is so fucked up in every universe, lucky to play the kyoto branch first, i loved catherines character and i loved the fucken weirdness of damien and chronos, 

buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut

you guys shouldnt have added the gold branch.

it ends the game on a sour and shitty note,

the game is like a fine wine, only getting sweeter towards the ends of the branches (mostly)

but right as you reach the actual end, someone puts a pile of dogshit in the bottle of wine. its been ruined. youll still remember how good the wine was, but its ultimately overshadowed by the dogshit in the oh-so beautiful bottle.

tl:dr mmmmm game good except for fucking gold branch 8.5/10

I have finally finished the collection after 1.5 days of playing.

I love almost every second of it, with games being even more inventive with narrative actually truly cohesive and pretty much almost never really conflicting with each other and even when such would arrive it all could be explained by parallel lines.

…and then, today, I got to the N/A branch, and I got even more hyped and I absolutely adored the first games of it and how it tied all of other branches together…

…and then came the Endings, and I have completely lost all of my enthusiasm, with 3 of them not being games at all, one being LITERALLY A SINGLE SENTENCE (it may make sense in-the-narrative BUT THERE STILL COULD BE DONE MORE WITH THIS THAN JUST "okay you let go"), and the only game out of the four, and a really good experience with that, DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO DO ANYTHING WITH THE PRIOR NARRATIVE AT ALL!

I wanted to sing this collection praises, for doing right everything C.H.A.I.N. couldn't, for games being even more innovative, creative, fun and narratively both cohesive and interesting and not even clashing with each other despite there being so many of them and so many branches, and the N/A branch tying them together even more!

Only for all this greatness to just… end like this, leaving me absolutely deflated, desolated, emptied out, destroyed, hollow.

I can't even feel angry, I'm that blue balled.

I can't even think of how why it would all end like this except it all being one big joke, and one of the branches already ended with a very silly and very fun one.

As much as I was bummed out by C.H.A.I.N.'s complete lack of the cohesive narrative except for the first few games which I still absolutely adore for a storyline that could've been, at least it also provided an amazing ending that looped it all on itself!

I don't know what to feel about C.H.A.I.N.G.E.D. anymore. I wanted to love it, I loved it, and now… I feel nothing. Betrayal, even. I understand how utterly silly it all sounds, but it really made me feel, and now it feels like it just played with my feelings.

I'm sorry.

I almost completed every game and I'm loving this.

There's just a little thing i wanna say, and it's about it's optimization. It's just not normal to have the launcher take 60-70% of my gpu when it's in the idle "launching game" state, it's just too big of a waste, especially for low end pcs. Please patch this.

Anybody got the system requirements? Would this run at 60 FPS on a 4 GB system with an Intel i3 8th gen processor + Intel UHD 620 graphics card?

Ive noticed that theres a game made by the same people that created this game called "C.H.A.I.N." Is this game a sequel to that game and i have to play it to understand this one, or am I able to play this without worrying about it?

I like it a lot so far,  but I can't figure out how to save. Does the game autosave?

cool in concept but in reality it would appear almost everyone in the wyoming branch didn't want to make a haunted ps1 game at all, most of them are glorified cutscenes that lead to a choice almost to shove it onto another developer most of them don't even go for being "ps1" instead opting for sharp edged low poly unity games. Sadly almost the entirety of the actual meat for the game is in the kyoto branch writing off half of the project, I made sure to look through every branch from wyoming but none of them did anything interesting, cool, and definitely had a massive lack of writing.

I really do appreciate the kyoto branches though, a fair few of them try to be inventive and some of them do fall through but it seemed more out of a lack of time or want to really flesh out what they had rather than a lack of ability. kyoto itself had an interesting first person melee mechanic that was a cool proof of concept, there was the animal crossing like one that also seemed like  an experiment to make something like animal crossing which all of the props to them for that. I also really enjoyed the one where you go back to where you started that played with ambience and space rather than mechanics.

main issues: all of these were extremely short and bite sized segments that had little to nothing, almost all of these were working from the initial game which sets it up but it really breaks my heart that none of them wanted to deviate from this, they would all focus on the god of time, the antichrist as the main characters and try to set up twists and turns without the real time investment to do so. I'm sure the setup was just so there would be a plot device for everyone to set their own game in their own setting while easily being able to tie it back in, but instead of actually branching out, all of these games seemingly loop back into each other instead.

I think the main issues could've occurred due to a lack of time and pressure, only being able to work on a bite size thing for a buddy who's working on a large scale collaborative project and needing to also write something meaningful to that project means they can't work on a big scale project that they would personally be invested in and both their idea for a game and story suffer for it.

I would absolutely be extremely interested if another project was made that gave these devs as much time as they needed and if they had extra emphasis on being able to be as loose as they want to be with this game. I would hope though that if this happens there are a fair bit more people not to oversee everything but more because I think having a chaining sequence of haunted ps1 games and not trying to mess with it in a unique way seems like a lack of both potential and possible creativity, maybe linking multiple branches to unlock an extra haunted secret branch, 4th wall breaks, things like that. 

Most importantly this game has a majority based on psuedo ps1 games masquerading low quality for aesthetic without the tailoring done to make it actually fit, the story premise trying to leave everything as open as possible instead made everything a christian mythos inspired matrix parody instead of something that could've been unique.

AGAIN I really do love this concept put together but I would be much more interested in another try at this with more foresight. Thank you for making this regardless.

I appear to have a small issue: the "Choices" tape appears to crash on start-up? I am unsure why and I request quick assistance.

the rpgmaker one is horribly put together. the encounters have zero depth, you can beat them by spamming z, the visuals feel lazy, it feels against the ps1 aesthetic the games are meant to have, and on a technical level its held together with duct tape and you can refight the final boss of it by just moving around in the void and spamming z. i also hate the narrative of it all, but when the first game they're all based on has a shit story in a project like this its not the fault of the dev, they weren't given anything good to work with. i played the right half of the collection then uninstalled.

How does the weight of the generations tape work? I genuinely can't tell if I'm making any progress on it or not

Aight, I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but here goes (SPOILERS FOR THE LATEGAME)






















Aight, so basically, when [SPOILER CHARACTER] lets me view various TVs to learn the deeper meaning of each point in the timeline... there are three that are missing, despite the fact that I've gotten verification marks for playing them. Is something bugged? Then again, the Attic game WAS bugged as I couldn't seem to progress past the phone call... And I DID beat the Ascend and "Kill Satan"  games (those are the three TVs that are missing). What's going on?

Wish I could play this but the first game opens SteamVR rendering the entire pack unplayable. looks really cool though, so that sucks :/

**EDIT: Changing the name of the SteamVR folder seems to have fixed this issue! 

-My SteamVR was located in "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common" 

-locate the SteamVR folder and rename it. This will just be temporary, I simply put an "a" at the end changing it to "SteamVRa"

-Now the game pack shouldn't detect the SteamVR and should run normally on flatscreen, hope this helps!