Like all the good Western countries, the rose starts on the water train.
Need to know
What is it? Western Point and Click Adventure Game, and the spiritual successor of Lamp Light City
Date of Release: March 27, 2025
Payment expectation: $ 20 / £ 17
Developer: Groundslav game
Publisher: Application System Headburg
Reviewed: Windows 11, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060, AMD Ryzen 9 4900hs, 16GB RAM
Steam deck: Playable
Multi Player? n/a
Link: Official site
Journalists are going to the city to get a job at the Harley Ligger Rose Water Post, which wants to expand its reach a small but competitive newspaper. Her first assignment is interviewing a Wild West Showman, who comes to the city, the gentleman is interviewing Jack Ecter, but with her, her involvement is rapidly looking for a treasure, which takes her, Jack and her chord tag staff to the entire West.
In Rose Water, the West is a bit different from remembering: Society is suffering from the devastating consequences of recent progress in the field of “Etherectic” while continuing the setting of stampic-conversion history from the city of Lamp Light city. It is not the west under the power of men on horses and Quick draw, where it is the hardest and fastest that comes out, but is in a sense of conspiracy and mystery that removes this genre from its bloody roots.
As a journalist, Harley is a great main character for this role. Instead of a revolver, his weapons have a nose for curiosity, stubbornness and truth. Instead of searching for gold, she’s hunting the story.
Every day, it is a habit to take the western staple and turn them a bit. Instead of a Silencer’s daily travel, Harley’s rocking road trip is and, it seems, everyone can find: proud Jack and his talented assistant Danny Liu, charming rebel leader Flomino Marcose (briefly), soft-speaking doctor, and Ane-e-Ain-Ain-e-Ain-e-Ain-A-Ain-A-Ain-Ain-A-Ain-A-Ain-A-Ain The majority of the game is in Lola’s wagon because they make their way in the L -Prasio, who face settlers, travelers, robbers, businessmen, refugees, men and laborers.
There is not a time to drive with cold attention to their purpose. Instead, they stop talking, helping, and walking around. Each time. Justice or gold is absent from a ruthless pursuit, the rose water is comfortable at a point to feel purposeless.
Road trip itself is an extended series of venges, which varies widely in depth and complexity. Some small events are random, and the story may be encountered at any time or completely left. Others have more interesting puzzles and focus on fellow characters, where Harley is not only looking for herself but also guidance and supporting others, learning about them when they all know about new people and the places they are facing.
It is interesting to see that Danny is scamped by a fake psychological or Lola pretense that he is not suffering from a traveling family -neglected dog, and occasionally these scenes cause a lot of intense partner conversation, such as in a scene where Fils Fulls have run away.
As this trip goes ahead, puzzles become more complicated – as in all good adventure games, someone just attracted me to the frustration to know that the obvious answer was under my nose all the time – but usually they need enough work without losing my attention. I had a particularly good time with a retired maritime captain’s side story, with a housewife withdrawing during the storm: With multiple layered puzzles in a limited area around the background of the same character, it all creates a climate of plot. It is like a very charming Shen Vietnam like a very charming newborn scenario.
There are less entertaining mines, who work mostly to waste time until Harley cannot determine that she is not really good at the work she is trying and handes her to a more talented partner. Fishing are as easy (moving your mouse to the opposite direction is pulling the fish) but less about Harley’s sharp shooting efforts, the better click (click on the thing that is so fast moving faster to my God!). Similarly, a map to be introduced late to the game seems annoying, and the simplicity of the art style is almost invalid. Fortunately, these paths do not often come.
Rose water is full of sun and unnecessary. The lack of urgency works fits Harley, which has a sense of dry humor and general abilities in the game mostly. Although this group occasionally finds itself in strange or extraordinary situations-in a crazy scientist’s lab, a patrolling military party, who is ambushed by Sysdo Pancanton, is attacked, or trapped with excessive friendly religious cultures. The game, especially in its short moments, shines in the rhetoric and rarely referred to the diary, which contains some of the best writings of the day, and the West has an incredible feeling of the environment for its interpretation.
Of course, the sunshine cannot be cheap. When the rose water reaches the height, and the return of citizenship makes the sense of classrophobia when the group is close to the L Prasio. My panic increased along with the characters. There is a feeling that the eyes of the world have returned to us. This is quite the opposite with the rest of the game, where I always realized that the world was left behind, that great events of history have already happened, and that places and people around whom Harley find themselves do not point to a particular future, but instead go away from this unseen past.
Rose Water is one of the western fiction, expansion and settlement and is one of the higher shelter. The daily water does not ignore the history of Western genre – in fact, it spends a lot of time with the consequences of imperialist barbarism against both the local tribes and the new Spanish – but it receives the most part of its sympathy in stories besides bloodshed.
Wherever Harley and his companions go, they are looking for people who are trying to find out how to live. If a day of water is buying more than anything in the West’s fiction, it is: West in Rose Water is a future, an unconstitutional, unconstitutional, for those who come into it and for those who already exist.
That is why it seems right that Harley can make his journey equipped with a notebook and not a gun. The treasure he has hunt has been removed from its origin: After a catastrophe in the far city, a scientist is fortunately hidden from a scandal, where some of these characters can be once but no longer. Without a gold race or a murderer, he has time to seek his future and his story, and help his comrades and those with whom he meets.
It seems appropriate to apppropriet for a game like water every day and what it is trying to be: a version of the West that we know, but not enough.