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got_quietStatus: Complete
Site: https://maneatergames.itch.io/blind-men
Pairing: M/M
Description: A supervillain wannabe has a run-in with some secret agents
This is a short little game where your MC is a young man who has decided to go into the family business of super villainy. In order to get started on this path he hatches a plot to commit a crime at an important science conference, but his plans go awry when a suave American agent and a grumpy KGB agent also make an appearance. The scope of this game is small. The agents are your two LIs, and there are a couple of side characters, but you're basically playing through a single messy day in the life of our young anti-hero. Each LI has four endings, two romantic successes and two failures, and the choice pathing is simple and telegraphed. You directly pick the guy you want to pursue with each run, and a good end will be possible as long as you aren't an ass.
Because the game is so short, the whole relationship bit of the game was a bit hit or miss for me as there's not much in the way of buildup. My first run I got caught at the convention center with Sergei, and enjoyed the path ok. You start out wary of each other, and then team up a bit to problem solve, and ultimately can join forces for the foreseeable future. My second run I kidnapped Hunter, rebuffed all of his flirtatious advances, tried to turn him into the Brotherhood of Evil or whatever the big supervillain org in this game was, and predictably got outwitted and abandoned. If you like one or the other of the two LI archtypes its nice that you easily get multiple runs with them and two branches are significantly different. If you don't like one there's much less game, as you've cut available content in half, and there's not much of a plot outside of the flirting to carry anything.
The price of the game reflects I think the amount of game there is, which is not much. It's short enough that it feels almost like a tech demo, but it's complete and the story that is there I enjoyed.
