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About This Game "A magnificent mini Irish folklore adventure game. 9/10 " gameskinny.com "...hauntingly beautiful adventure game. 77%" cogconnected.com "...I definitely say it’s a beautiful gem, which everyone should try. ...Great game, buy it, peace. 7/10" invisioncommunity.co.uk "Scéal is not your ordinary game. It will stay with you forever. It will leave footprints in your mind." infinitegaming.es "...This game is a work of art..." oneangrygamer.net "Sceal is a game that I can recommend to anyone who likes interesting story with beautiful Irish music and artistically painted world." vgdb.pl "...this is a gorgeous fairytale with simplistic gameplay and a tragic story. I love the art design and need to download the soundtrack immediately." defunctgames.com "Lovingly animated in a hand-drawn watercolour style and underpinned by a haunting soundtrack, Scéal makes a handsome first impression." independent.ie "The authors have artfully combined music, graphics and story into a harmonious unit with artistic value and skillfully filed storyline. 8/10" sector.sk "A good pick..." graal.fr "In short: "Scéal" - small game, but very big! 91%" adventurespiele.net ------------------------------------- Steeped in supernatural Irish folklore, Scéal (which means "story" in Irish) casts players into the role of the lost soul of a little girl, destined to wander the earth, with no memories of the life she once lived. Longing for release from her limbo, the spirit encounters Branna, the Raven of the Dead, who promises to take the girl to the afterlife if she can rediscover her name and recover the story of the life she once lived by reliving her memories inside the pages of Branna's magical storybook. At the heart of Scéal’s gameplay is its vibrant watercolour paint palette. Players must complete quests by painting buildings and objects to progress the storyline. Scéal also features a day/night cycle with colour palettes and music that change as the story / time progresses. Playing as the little spirit, players can transform into an angel of light or a dark banshee, repainting the world as they move through it, changing the world from happiness to despair and back again. Along with it's unique visual style and art direction, Scéal has a distinctive and hauntingly melodic soundtrack, sung in Irish and made in collaboration with renowned Irish folk singers Lorcan Mac Mathuna, Aislinn Duffy and Florence Glen. 7aa9394dea Title: Sceal: An Irish Folklore AdventureGenre: Adventure, Casual, IndieDeveloper:Joint CustodyPublisher:Joint CustodyRelease Date: 26 Oct, 2016 Sceal: An Irish Folklore Adventure Patch yop, nice paintings. fast but real good game. I hope that it will continue. This review was written in English and Russian in purpose to save your money and time.They claim Sc\u00e9al is an adventure game but it\u2019s rather a visual novel which looks like a movable book with pop-up pictures. StoryIn Steam Joint Custody, the only game\u2019s developer, concisely describes Sc\u00e9al as being \u00absteeped in supernatural Irish folklore\u00bb. Sc\u00e9al means \u201cStory\u201d in Irish language ( Gaelige or Gaelic) so Joint Custody tells you a story about a girl\u2019s spirit who seeks to find her memories with the help of the raven named Branna.The game puts you in the shoes \u2014 or rather the soul \u2014 of a little girl who has no memories of her previous life. It\u2019s a simple but interesting story but it\u2019s so short that you can complete it less than two hours.The Irish folklore is represented in the game through some forms of the girl ghost (angel, banshee) and a mythical raven named Branna.Br\u00e2n the Blessed (Gaelic: Bendigeidfran or Br\u00e2n Fendigaidd, literally "Blessed Crow") is a giant and king of Britain in Celtic mythology. He appears in several of the Welsh Triads, but his most significant role is in the Second Branch of the Mabinogi (Branwen ferch Ll\u0177r). The name "Br\u00e2n" in Gaelic is usually translated as crow or raven.GameplayIn Sc\u00e9al, there\u2019s simple and symbolic mechanic: wherever a heart goes, the soul must follow. This becomes your method of movement in the game. Players pull an ethereal green heart around the map, and the floating soul chases it to the destination. You make the girl\u2019s spirit float around a small island consists of two villages and paint some objects (buildings, stones, trees).As you can see the game is focused on its story rather than gameplay. This would be completely fine if the story really pulled you in but it doesn't manage to do this.GraphicsI liked the graphics of this game. Designed to resemble a storybook, Sc\u00e9al\u2019s pages are filled with pretty watercolor artwork. Upon opening the town map, ink spreads outward to complete the entire pictureSound\/Music The soundtrack of this game is what shines here because it tells the story more through its music. I enjoyed the Irish folk music here as it was high quality and definitely fit the game's tone.There\u2019s an outstanding soundtrack featuring Irish folk singers such as Aislinn Duffy and Florence Glen. If you have an interest in Irish folk music (like me), you\u2019ll like the Sc\u00e9al\u2019s soundtrack for sure.ConclusionI ought to say Sc\u00e9al is more of a narrative than a game and besides very short one. 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Great game! I love it :) very nice paintings and music. beautiful music and immersive visuals!. awesome graphics and beautiful music!. awesome graphics and beautiful music!. Very refreshing game, full of colour, great music, story is simple but nice, the negative is too short for such good game. This is a beautiful little game based on Irish folklore. The art and music are both absolutely delightful, and makes the game worthwhile. Play is quite simple - just using the cursor to move and paint - and the puzzle element is appropriate for most ages. For me, it was relaxing and meditative. Three separate endings give it a small amount of replayability, but I'll probably wait at least a few months before playing again. Thank you, Joint Custody team!!

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