- July 20, 2021
- Jiacheng Sun
Shanghai1920
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About Shanghai1920
Shanghai1920 is a single player casual role playing game with horror, fantasy, romance and mystery themes. It was developed by Jiacheng Sun and was released on July 20, 2021. It received mostly positive reviews from players.
This game is a suspenseful visual novel style game, Players will play a 20th century police in Shanghai, China, Discover the hidden story and truth behind the murder through exploration and investigation.
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Reviews
- The game has an interesting and beautiful story with twists and turns that show the developers' care for the project.
- It provides a short, casual experience suitable for busy gamers, with less than an hour of playtime.
- The setting and atmosphere make players feel immersed in 1920s Shanghai.
- The gameplay quality is poor, with heavy reliance on lengthy, poorly written visual novel-style cutscenes that detract from interactivity.
- The art and graphics are low quality, resembling amateur or hand-drawn styles, and the RPG Maker engine shows technical limitations like lack of fullscreen HD support.
- The game suffers from weak worldbuilding, overused vampire story tropes, and overall low production values that result in a low public reception and replay value.
gameplay
4 mentions Positive Neutral NegativeThe gameplay is widely criticized for being poorly executed, heavily overshadowed by excessive and poorly written visual novel-style cutscenes that disrupt the flow and engagement. The game relies too much on uninspired fan-fiction writing rather than meaningful, interactive mechanics, resulting in a tedious and unsatisfying RPG experience.
“There's more emphasis on the badly done fan-fiction writing than on gameplay, which raises an interesting question about RPG Maker... what's worse, the crap fan-fiction writing that goes along with them, or the godawfully bad Final Fantasy ripoff gameplay?”
“Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality 2D retro pixel/'baby's first Wacom tablet' art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay.”
“The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design: 'show, don't tell.' So you'll spend a huge amount of time not playing the game, but clicking through endless lines of poorly written visual novel text cutscenes because the developers couldn't work out how to relate their narrative through the game mechanics, and decided instead it would be better to compete with reading a book for your time.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
Shanghai1920 is a casual role playing game with horror, fantasy, romance and mystery themes. Common tags for Shanghai1920 include free to play, first-person, 2d, linear, detective and others.
Shanghai1920 is available on PC and Windows.
Shanghai1920 was released on July 20, 2021.
Shanghai1920 was developed by Jiacheng Sun.
Shanghai1920 has received mostly positive reviews from players. Most players liked Shanghai1920 for its story but disliked it for its gameplay.
Shanghai1920 is a single player game.
Similar games include 海与鱼Ocean and Fish, Path of Vidya, Ghost Hospital -in Thousand Horror Hill-, 大海与你, SHADOW and others.