{"id":1086,"date":"2024-08-16T22:53:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T02:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postterminus.com\/xf\/blog\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2024-08-16T22:53:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T02:53:48","slug":"va-11-hall-a-cyberpunk-bartender-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postterminus.com\/xf\/blog\/2024\/08\/16\/va-11-hall-a-cyberpunk-bartender-action\/","title":{"rendered":"VA-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes, that is the full name. I’ll just be calling it Valhalla for ease. In Valhalla, you take on the role of Jill, an ordinary person in Glitch City, year 207X. Glitch City is known to be a mess as well as the unofficial testing ground of some new technologies and policies leading to a place full of cybernetic enhancements, genetic enhancements, AI, nanomachines, and more! But that’s not important to Jill. She’s just there to work the bar and make drinks for the people that come in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valhalla is a story game told through your interactions with the customers as bartender. Find it on Steam<\/a>, and step behind the counter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Be the cyberpunk bartender you’ve always wanted to be.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Being a visual novel type game, there isn’t much in the way of gameplay. Most of the game is enjoying the atmosphere, story, and characters. The game has all three of those and more! The game is a fun pixel style that brings the characters to life. They don’t have a lot of animation, but there is enough to get a good sense of each of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meet a wide array of customers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The music in the game is fitting for the setting. In game, all music does have a source, usually the jukebox, so the songs usually are not preset for the mood. It still works fine, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You slowly learn more about the city and what’s going on within it over the course of the game. There is trouble out there, but Jill has some reliable friends and coworkers to help out. In turn, you help them out by giving them drinks. How well you get their orders correct will affect the story. It’s nothing major, but you do get more of their story for doing well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time to mix drinks and change lives.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There is some strategy and gameplay involved in making drinks. Sometimes, customers will be vague with what they want. Other times, you have a wide choice of what to give them. Each drink has a price, and you do want to make money since there are bills that Jill needs to pay and stuff she wants to buy. Not having enough money can lead to her getting distracted at work making the game harder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Buy some more stuff for your home. You don’t need savings.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Also, the game doesn’t tell you this at all, but there are hotkey shortcuts. They aren’t changeable, and I would have laid out the hotkeys differently, but they do make drink-making much faster. Usually, you need to drag and drop the ingredients in one at a time. Or you can just tap the corresponding hotkey to instantly add one in. I’m not going to list out the keys here, but if you play the game, know they exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a skip dialogue hotkey. Unlike other visual novels where the skip dialogue key will only skip stuff you’ve already seen, this will skip dialogue you haven’t seen before as well. Be wary when using it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Oh no, livestreamers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The characters in the game are great. Some customers are regulars, and you learn more about them. Others only come in infrequently or even just one time. Still, everyone is interesting in their own way and some of the fun comes from not knowing what kind of person you’ll see next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the course of the game, you’ll also learn more about Jill, her past and why she’s a bartender. It can be sad, funny, heartwarming. The story hits all the emotions. The world is full of cyberpunk charm. Technology is woven into everything making even normal things just a bit more interesting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Drinks for everyone!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Valhalla is a fun cyberpunk visual novel where you are the bartender listening to people’s stories. But you also have problems of your own, and maybe the regulars can help you out as well. With a group of fun characters and a fun setting, you might actually look forwards to going into work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find it on Steam<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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