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Sunday, August 6, 2023 1:20:17 AM

Sixtieth Kilometer Review (Kenpoleon Bonaparte)

This is one of those click-through Visual Novels. Some choices matter, some don't. Depending on your reading speed, It should take you about 4 to 5 hours reading straight through without any interruptions or distractions. Make sure to pay attention to what you're reading, as there is no "back" button. If you save about every 5 screens or so, it's easy enough to just reload your last save in order to read something again.
I found the story VERY intriguing, although somewhat poorly executed. Has some good twists in it, and is 21 chapters long. Several QTE's are inserted, mainly in the earlier chapters, which kind of ruins the immersiveness of the story (and also provide the most important reason for saving often). You will fail some of them the first time because you don't know if you're racing to push Q-E repeatedly, or W-A-S-D repeatedly, until after the QTE starts.
The language translation from Russian to English is poor, which seems to be a consistent thing about Russian-made games, but it's decent enough that you can follow what's going on anyway. Your brain should auto-correct the janky sentence structures and the sometimes wrongly-picked translated words. Other stuff is messed up, like the use of he/she, present/past tense, and some of the chapter numbers are wrong.
This is also one of those games where your playing time sometimes doesn't register, and if it doesn't the trading cards won't drop. One suggestion I found is to play it from the Store Page, not your Library Page, but that doesn't guarantee your time is being counted. Also, it seems that every time you quit you need to verify the game files before starting up the game again. There are 112 files which seem to either keep disappearing, or keep getting corrupted.
So, for the story... You are Oleg, a twenty-something riding the electric train into Moscow for your job on a Sunday morning. The train unexpectedly comes to a stop, and a pink fog surrounds the train. People quickly learn that the fog is deadly poisonous to breath and also turns water highly (and deadly) acidic. Cue the usual end-of-the-world panic from some people while the level-headed people start figuring out how to collect food & resources to survive.