Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters
Skip · RPG · 2011
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $9.99.
- Length
- 8.6h
- Value
- $1.16/hr
- Reviews
- 76% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 451 MB of storage. Windows only.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.99, set in December 2016. It has been discounted 46 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 15 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 15 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 61 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Eastward ($24.99, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty ($19.99, scores 1).
Critics scored it 62. Players sit 14 points higher at 76 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 235 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
8.6 hours to finish it, 36 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.2 times the campaign.
What players say
🧚🏻♀️ A fully-fledged, solid classic and an excellent example of those small Japanese PC games from the 2000s. The RPG part is gear-based, with no levels. There's currency grinding, an interesting magic pick-up mechanic, small but memorable locations, secrets, and a light, enjoyable story. It won't be easy, but it encourages you to get used to the gameplay features. Bosses can seem more difficult than they are...
i dont even know how i found this game but oooh this scratches a certain part of my brain and i LOVE IT (it also makes me want to kms sometimes but i dont mind)
aaaAAaa~~ahhh... koonooo ge-muu... I want to grow black wings of darkness and kill. i am mad withj rage i want to... gut them open and stretch their arm meat with my teeth i waill jjust... everyone can go die
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Chantelise - A Tale of Two Sisters scores 40/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/70420/chantelise-a-tale-of-two-sistersThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 5, price as of Sep 24.
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