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She Sees red has an interesting story locked away in it somewhere but it’s annoying to try to find it. I like it when games branch the story based on choices where it changes your journey to the end and the end itself but the way that She Sees Red is setup I have to play through multiple times making different combos of choices just to see more of the main story. This means 20-30 minutes each time just to get an extra crumb of the story. It would have been much better if the game would let you load the game from each choice or allow you manual saves to cut down on the back tracking. It does have a skip feature but I think it was broken for me because any scene where I tried to skip it didn’t do anything. It didn’t give an error, it just did nothing. I did like that the game allowed you to choose the original Russian voices with subtitles as I don’t enjoy media with dubbing. I find it just takes me out of it and looks weird, this was no exception. The acting was decent but to be fair the actors weren’t given a lot to work with dialogue wise. The game also seemed to jump around a lot as to events that happened at different times and it just gave things a spastic feel that I didn’t like.
I played She Sees Red on Linux using Proton. It never crashed but it did have other issues. There were these strange pauses where the game would just pause until I hit the escape key to bring up the menu and then again to go back to the game. They happened more frequently as the story went on. The English subtitles also had one spelling error. There was one setting for resolution. You could also save and exit the game bringing you back to the point next time you loaded. The game ran great even on Intel onboard graphics.
Game Engine: Unity
Graphics API: DXVK
Disk Space Used: 2.7 GB
Resolution: 2560x1440
CPU Usage: 18-21 %
System RAM Usage: 5.9-6.9 GB
Frame Rate: 111-122 FPS
I wanted to know more about the backstory and the characters but found the game mechanics to be annoying. I did two playthroughs and found there were still a lot of loose ends and didn’t find it worth trying to find more answers. It took thirty six minutes for my first play through and thirty eight minutes for my second. I paid $2.69 CAD for the game and don’t think that the sale price or the current normal price of $8.97 CAD plus tax are bad for the amount of content I still can’t recommend the game in either case. There are a lot of better FMV games out there. I would be interested in more Rhintotales games if they adjust their mechanics a bit and sort out their technical issues as I did find the story interesting.
My Score: 5.5/10
My System:
Intel i5-12600K | 32GB DDR4-3200 CL16 | Intel UHD 770 | Mesa 23.0.4 | Western Digital Black SN850X 2TB | Trisquel 11.0.1 | Mate 1.26.0 | Kernel 6.9.1-gnu | Proton 9.0-1 | MSI G2730QPF 2560*1440 @ 165hz