SOULS Demo

Unlikely friendships always make up for great stories, especially in the case of supernatural beings or monsters. People befriending mythical beasts is a classic fantasy trope, and it’s even more fun when characters get to work together with powerful beings in order to defeat foes. On the other hand, such friendships always come at a cost, and there’s also the danger of things going wrong.

SOULS is a visual novel in which you play the role of a boy who attentions a school that’s apparently terrorized by some kind of weird monster. The game appears to be a purely kinetic experience, which means that there’s not much you can do but read and watch the story unfold in front of you. On the other hand, the writing is good enough to keep you interested along the way.

The main focus of the story is the fact that the boy has become friends with the monster somehow, although their friendship is far from traditional. They just seem to tolerate each other, and it also helps that the monster does not attack the main character for some reason. However, things get tougher to handle once weird incidents start to happen around the school.

Since there is not much interaction to worry about, it’s important for the game to keep your eyes busy with artwork and somehow create a creepy atmosphere at the same time. Although the action takes place in a school most of the time, the backgrounds chosen by the designers are quite unsettling, and there’s something about the washed out textures added on top that works wonders for the atmosphere.

Unfortunately, the character artwork is not particularly pretty, and there are times when the whole thing looks very unfinished or sketchy. On the other hand, the soundtrack makes up for this, given the fact that the melodies go extremely well with the overall mood of the game. The sound effects enrich the experience too, so you can forget about the graphics most of the time.

SOULS can easily keep you engaged from start to finish, especially if you like a good story and you are a fan of horror flicks. The soundtrack is definitely top-notch, and the background artwork has its moments as well.