This, My Soul Demo

Spaceships are always designed in a different ways in movies and video games, since it’s quite easy to imagine something different when the concept is so open to interpretation. However, there are certain things that seem to repeat themselves in almost all situations, probably because at the moment people feel like every spacecraft should have a shield generator, or laser weapons.

This, My Soul is an interactive visual novel in which you find yourself aboard a spaceship in the company of an android, with no one else around you and a long trip ahead. The demo at hand does not feature too much content, but you can tell that the final version is going to be a lot more stuffy and choice-driven. On the other hand, it also feels a bit too sketchy at the moment, especially in regards to the story.

The story puts you in the role of a woman that can be named by you, who happens to be on a spaceship with her crew when they get attacked. Thankfully, she survives by fleeing with another ship, but unfortunately she does so alone. However, it turns out that the android on board is actually sentient, and he can learn how to have actual conversations, or even care for other creatures.

The story also allows you to make choices and decide whether to lead your character on one path or the other, which opens up the possibility to play the game multiple times and experience different things. Granted, a lot of the dialog usually remains the same in such cases, so it’s difficult to get excited at the moment, at least not until more content is revealed.

As far as the graphics are concerned, the very little available content also limits the number of backgrounds and characters, so there’s not a lot to see. In fact, there’s only one or two backgrounds and the same two characters on the screen at all times, which gets pretty boring. Moreover, the android is designed in a very unusual way, so it doesn’t look very believable.

All things considered, This, My Soul is not quite there yet, but it’s certainly on the right track. The android part of the story is very intriguing, but there’s not enough content at the moment to form a proper opinion.