Board 8 > Platinum #298 - Where the Water Tastes Like Wine

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https://psnprofiles.com/trophies/10058-where-the-water-tastes-like-wine/ArcticCress
https://www.truetrophies.com/game/Where-the-Water-Tastes-Like-Wine/trophies?gamerid=5963

I said the following in the beaten games topic.

This game has you control someone traveling through the entirety of the US sometime in the early 20th century, collecting stories and then telling them to various characters at campfires. Each one of the 16th named characters has a separate story to tell, and all of them are fully voiced. Even has a random appearance by Sting, who voices one of the game's characters. The game is rather short - even with the slow walking speed you'll probably be finished around or before the fifteen hour mark, with another five cleaning up any loose stories lying around. (My PS5 said I finished the story at the eleven hour mark, but I had 30+ stories left to find.)

One thing I would have liked to see is how the stories evolved throughout the game - it just tells you that the story changed to another one, but not really saying how the story changed. There's also some annoying bugs where stories fail to appear. I managed to get around that by simply reloading the game, but it seems to have affected many people on the Steam and PSN copies. As for the visuals and music, they are some of the best I've seen in an indie game, and I'm probably going to nominate a few tracks when VGMC starts up in a few days.

It's a shame that the creator said that the game was a commercial failure, so we probably won't see another game like this one from him. I did enjoy it though!

However. The final trophy bugged out on me, as when I did manage to get stories to appear if I reloaded, they were all the same story, which I probably collected 10 or so times before just ignoring it looking for others. Sadly almost all my unseen stories were in the Midwest (the few in the Northeast were unaffected by this bug, but did not have the story I needed), and they all spawned the exact same story, so I assume that region just ran out of possible stories. I started a new file from scratch and three hours later (while skipping all dialogue and campfires) I had the last trophy around the 180 story mark. This time I headed straight to the Midwest instead of going down the east coast (you start at the top of Maine) and went counterclockwise around the US.

I have quite a few games I'm holding due to the trophy contest on TrueTrophies. I wasn't going to lose this one to another bug so I just played through - but most of the others won't be completed for a while!