Quiet in the West

Hundred years ago now raging in Europe the war, which in its dimension far surpassing any other previous armed conflict: From 1914 to 1918 the peoples of the world fought in WWI. The horror of this and other conflicts were often enough processed on film or even playful, but tries to suggest "Valiant Hearts" in another notch, by focusing the story of a separated by the war the family at the center. So the German Karl lives with his French wife, his newborn son and his father on a quiet farm just behind the French border. When the war broke out, he was drafted for service for his country, the father of his wife, Emile, however, must serve in the army of France. Both fighting from now on by the deadly years of the "Great War", will find here new friends and have to prove themselves in life-threatening situations.
Pure playful is "Valiant Hearts" knitted rather simplistic. Dissolve, like in an adventure game, various tasks, but also must, as in a classic platform game, overcoming numerous skill Parkours. Sometimes this also join minigames branded "press quickly and at the right time this or that button." The biggest problem, however, is not even the relative simplicity of the game sequence, but rather the regular repetition in a similar-feeling tasks. In particular in the first half of the game introduce themselves as moments of boredom, which can be bridged only by the always cleverly knitted tere story and characters. The more you look, however, the end approaches, the more this is to be marginalized, because you absolutely want to know the outcome of events, which speaks for the purely narrative qualities of the game.
Technically, "Valiant Hearts" is based clearly on adventure genre, although it is certainly not all fall easily, the cartoon graphics used to like immediately. The setting is also a whole in order, in particular, the background music sets the mood of the game considerably.
For the price of just 14 Euros (as of 3/29/2015) gives the bottom line is good eight hours of fun playing simple variety that takes its significant stimulus from the design and witnessing history. The unlockable information about the progress and the development of World War 1 even meet a certain level of education claim that one can not underline thick enough at playing this style. To operate a Uplay account is required, which is almost a reason for me to pull another star (due to bad experiences with the memory synchronization of saved games), but there was a Uplay-related problems.