(im on a mission to finish some left over reviews from the games ive played and post them before the end of the year or else theyre gonna show up in the game count of 2024 dont talk to me so its been a while since ive played \insert current game\ have fun with what i remember about it)
sexy fweged recommended this to me as part of this list thanks dude
at this point we are at the third installment in this series and I can competently say that I didnt understand m anything that happened in this fucking game and I'm positive enough that there's some deep lore and understanding about characters worlds and relationships between the work of art and the creator behind it but I have absolutely no idea how i am supposed to know all this without looking it up or having someone infodump me the truth concealed behind this game in a 3 hours video essay about hello charlotte and its legacy but until then I will be talking about the game as its own thing because again I have no knowledge about the surroundings for now
needless to say playing hello charlotte 1 and 2 is nearly mandatory to even barely understand what is happening in this installment so yeah you're advised to play those before thank you very much champion
hello charlotte 2 in its own regard is possibly the greatest one of the bunch if you ask me its such a great leap in narrative and production from the first one that it could be its own thing if it weren't for hello charlotte 1 and then hello charlotte 3 somehow follows the steps of the other games and in particular the second one in all the worldbuilding around it and the setting AND the fucking theology/beliefs/whatever aspect which is something that I liked a lot in the second game and somehow I even enjoyed it more in that game
not entirely sure how I should even begin to explain the story of this game because I don't even understand it to begin with so ideally I will just explain the surface level stuff . you get to play as charlotte again but for some reasons she's absolutely fucked up and a jerk and to even get the point across that she's fucking unbearable every single character of the game all of the sudden wants to kill her although shes an immortal entity or whatever
this is already such a different direction from the very first game and even from its sequel theres nothing left of the charlotte you know and love she just got turned into a violent freak that just wants to punish anyone and everything on her path
this is certainly the main plot twist of the game and it still delivers such a haunting experience even though this time youre probably not gonna be relating to the protagonist lest youre a murderer but that being said etherane really makes it pretty obvious that this iteration of charlotte is to be hated in any way shape or form even when you have some kind of opportunity to be sympathetic towards her this thing is gonna get crushed in a second by the absolutely hideous stuff she does to the other characters
most of the relationships you grow accustomed in the first 2 games were thrown out of the window because most characters were either reshaped entirely for the purpose of this new narrative or the bond they have with charlotte are just ones of pure hatred and create a stark contrast to the usual narrative of found family that was present in the second game
ideally i would say that this is the core of the entire game but actually this is gonna get super metaphysical real fast and thats also where im gonna lose contact with the story . i genuinely have no idea what the charles eyler true story is really about and i cant even talk about this in full length because it would be spoiler uwu
that being said most of the real life implications and general ideas of the story actually surround charles and what is up with him , now this is probably the most haunting part of the game because it gets real heavy real fast with some themes like depression suicide and death so umh not really the funniest shit in the universe but its also where the game gets the most personal its like etherane is writing about their experience as an artist a creator and a human being and what this actually means for themselves and for the world around them
again im not clever enough to actually understand what is happening here and most of the stuff is probably gonna be left in weird hints that people arent gonna get anyway unless their big in the hello charlotte conspiracy theory scene which i am definitely not
i could glimpse a lot of different themes from this one but i definitely will need another playthrough to actually make up my mind about what this game is truly about but apart from the charlotte prologue and charles plot twist probably my favorite part of the game is probably the scarlett one
now mild spoilers ahead when you actually take the rein of scarlett eyler and slowly descend into madness to understand what the fuck is happening in this game altogether but its also my least favorite part of the game gameplay wise so im pretty conflicted
this game plays in the normal rpg maker tropes rightfully its basically just a glorified ao oni with some more puzzles in there now even though i dont usually like the “get items and use them somewhere” puzzles hello charlotte somehow managed to make some more puzzles that i absolutely despise theyre definitely some of the most mind numbing stuff ive ever had to experience in a videogame im not wise enough or clever enough or anything so i just resolved to using guides now for whatever reason they decided it was a good idea to just put the entirety of the puzzles in a late game segment while youre controlling scarlett and its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BADLY PACED it completely breaks the momentum i have no idea why they had the idea to completely break the story pace to put a whole lot of puzzles in a climax for the whole game but i digress
so umh again i think charlotte/charles segments are the most story heavy and the scarlett one is the most puzzley part of the game and still i do think the scarlett epilogue is the most haunting one of the bunch absolutely gut wrenching and an incredible testament at how good etherane is to write these ethereal and nonsensical stories that manage to feel intelligent anyway because theyre probably games for smart people = not me
again while most of the story stuff is a mystery to me i cant lie and say that i didnt actually love this shit to hell and back the vibes are unmatched most of the themes actually resonated with me and when you actually add on top of that etheranes GORGEOUS character designs interesting music decisions and rpgmaker knowledge you get an experience in the genre that is nothing like anything else youve ever played
definitely my favorite etherane game together with HC2 but im sure gonna check heavens gate out because i want to actually understand something in this fucking series AND i want to fuck vincent in the ass so theres that thank you everybody for tuning in
sexy fweged recommended this to me as part of this list thanks dude
at this point we are at the third installment in this series and I can competently say that I didnt understand m anything that happened in this fucking game and I'm positive enough that there's some deep lore and understanding about characters worlds and relationships between the work of art and the creator behind it but I have absolutely no idea how i am supposed to know all this without looking it up or having someone infodump me the truth concealed behind this game in a 3 hours video essay about hello charlotte and its legacy but until then I will be talking about the game as its own thing because again I have no knowledge about the surroundings for now
needless to say playing hello charlotte 1 and 2 is nearly mandatory to even barely understand what is happening in this installment so yeah you're advised to play those before thank you very much champion
hello charlotte 2 in its own regard is possibly the greatest one of the bunch if you ask me its such a great leap in narrative and production from the first one that it could be its own thing if it weren't for hello charlotte 1 and then hello charlotte 3 somehow follows the steps of the other games and in particular the second one in all the worldbuilding around it and the setting AND the fucking theology/beliefs/whatever aspect which is something that I liked a lot in the second game and somehow I even enjoyed it more in that game
not entirely sure how I should even begin to explain the story of this game because I don't even understand it to begin with so ideally I will just explain the surface level stuff . you get to play as charlotte again but for some reasons she's absolutely fucked up and a jerk and to even get the point across that she's fucking unbearable every single character of the game all of the sudden wants to kill her although shes an immortal entity or whatever
this is already such a different direction from the very first game and even from its sequel theres nothing left of the charlotte you know and love she just got turned into a violent freak that just wants to punish anyone and everything on her path
this is certainly the main plot twist of the game and it still delivers such a haunting experience even though this time youre probably not gonna be relating to the protagonist lest youre a murderer but that being said etherane really makes it pretty obvious that this iteration of charlotte is to be hated in any way shape or form even when you have some kind of opportunity to be sympathetic towards her this thing is gonna get crushed in a second by the absolutely hideous stuff she does to the other characters
most of the relationships you grow accustomed in the first 2 games were thrown out of the window because most characters were either reshaped entirely for the purpose of this new narrative or the bond they have with charlotte are just ones of pure hatred and create a stark contrast to the usual narrative of found family that was present in the second game
ideally i would say that this is the core of the entire game but actually this is gonna get super metaphysical real fast and thats also where im gonna lose contact with the story . i genuinely have no idea what the charles eyler true story is really about and i cant even talk about this in full length because it would be spoiler uwu
that being said most of the real life implications and general ideas of the story actually surround charles and what is up with him , now this is probably the most haunting part of the game because it gets real heavy real fast with some themes like depression suicide and death so umh not really the funniest shit in the universe but its also where the game gets the most personal its like etherane is writing about their experience as an artist a creator and a human being and what this actually means for themselves and for the world around them
again im not clever enough to actually understand what is happening here and most of the stuff is probably gonna be left in weird hints that people arent gonna get anyway unless their big in the hello charlotte conspiracy theory scene which i am definitely not
i could glimpse a lot of different themes from this one but i definitely will need another playthrough to actually make up my mind about what this game is truly about but apart from the charlotte prologue and charles plot twist probably my favorite part of the game is probably the scarlett one
now mild spoilers ahead when you actually take the rein of scarlett eyler and slowly descend into madness to understand what the fuck is happening in this game altogether but its also my least favorite part of the game gameplay wise so im pretty conflicted
this game plays in the normal rpg maker tropes rightfully its basically just a glorified ao oni with some more puzzles in there now even though i dont usually like the “get items and use them somewhere” puzzles hello charlotte somehow managed to make some more puzzles that i absolutely despise theyre definitely some of the most mind numbing stuff ive ever had to experience in a videogame im not wise enough or clever enough or anything so i just resolved to using guides now for whatever reason they decided it was a good idea to just put the entirety of the puzzles in a late game segment while youre controlling scarlett and its SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO BADLY PACED it completely breaks the momentum i have no idea why they had the idea to completely break the story pace to put a whole lot of puzzles in a climax for the whole game but i digress
so umh again i think charlotte/charles segments are the most story heavy and the scarlett one is the most puzzley part of the game and still i do think the scarlett epilogue is the most haunting one of the bunch absolutely gut wrenching and an incredible testament at how good etherane is to write these ethereal and nonsensical stories that manage to feel intelligent anyway because theyre probably games for smart people = not me
again while most of the story stuff is a mystery to me i cant lie and say that i didnt actually love this shit to hell and back the vibes are unmatched most of the themes actually resonated with me and when you actually add on top of that etheranes GORGEOUS character designs interesting music decisions and rpgmaker knowledge you get an experience in the genre that is nothing like anything else youve ever played
definitely my favorite etherane game together with HC2 but im sure gonna check heavens gate out because i want to actually understand something in this fucking series AND i want to fuck vincent in the ass so theres that thank you everybody for tuning in