Perhaps it’s just the background I come from in games (as always when I review visual novels, I think it’s worth it to say this is well out of my usual wheelhouse) but I found a story that really was as simple and human as One Night Stand to be almost unsettling at first. I find myself surprised by the game’s lack of cynicism or by the lack of escalation. I mean, the obvious happened, but how on earth did you wind up here? It’s a simple mystery but one which promises a lot, and the game wants you to explore all sorts of ways of resolving it. You have no idea how you got here, or what happened last night, and the game asks you to work it out. It’s a terribly well done intro that does a lot to place you in your character’s unenviable position.Īs you come to, you find yourself in a stranger’s bed, with a beautiful woman lying next to you, turned away. There’s a real overwhelming of your emotions and senses as the game opens. Your vision is blurred the light of the screen lances through your eyelids and forces you to squint. The buzz of your phone vibrating is like a saw in your ears, hacking away with an unrelenting fervour. You’ve got a thumping headache and you can feel the blood pounding at your temples. You wake up after a night of heavy drinking. The premise of One Night Stand is very simple. Released Oct 2016 | Developed: Kinmoku | Published: Kinmoku / Ratalaika Games
One Night Stand (PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One) Given most games have some sort of action in their gameplay, even smaller games can manage to imbue some sense of excitement or intrigue right from the off, but how about when you’ve got a game in a genre that doesn’t have any action at all? Being able to do so in a short story is even more vital with fewer words comes a greater need to grab your audience immediately. Without it, it’s all too easy for us, as readers, to give up after all, if there’s nothing to solve, or to puzzle over, or simply to ponder, why bother reading on? It’s the mark of a great writer to craft that sense of ambiguity from even the most banal of beginnings. Building mystery and tension is a key component of any story.
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