About This Game Will you infiltrate the gods' Elite Courte, stealing their superpowers, or turn double agent and join them, taking your place among the divine?Versus: The Elite Trials is a thrilling 140,000-word interactive novel by Zachary Sergi, author of our best-selling Heroes Rise trilogy. Your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.In this sequel to Versus: The Lost Ones, as one of the prisoners trapped on planet Versus, you must vote for who will fight in deadly gladiatorial battles. Thirteen prisoners have formed a voting bloc, the Elite Courte, to ensure that they choose who lives and who dies.But one of their so-called "gods" has a plan for revolution. Your power to steal superpowers and memories makes you the perfect spy--or the perfect double agent.MemoryTravel through time and space--keeping one step ahead of the enforcer agents who want you dead. Play the gods against each other in games within games. Design your own planet in the halls of the gods.On Versus, nothing and no one is as they seem, perhaps not even you. Play as male, female, or non-binary Create a planet and culture in your own image Romance one (or more!) of ten different characters Subvert the corrupt Elite Courte, or join them to suppress rebellion Learn the shocking truth about your home planet, Prisca Rejoin Lady Venuma, Grog, and Breeze; meet a new cast of alien characters 1075eedd30 Title: VERSUS: The Elite TrialsGenre: Adventure, Indie, RPGDeveloper:Choice of GamesPublisher:Choice of GamesRelease Date: 16 Dec, 2016 VERSUS: The Elite Trials Activation Code Generator I loved it. I just wish the romances were fleshed out a little more. Perhaps that's not the main goal of the story (seeing its high direction toward ethical and political conundrums), but if the romance portion is available, I'd like more! :). [Spolier!] The world\/planet creation was just simply amaizing, waiting forward for thrid book!. I\u201d ve been waiting a long time for the second part of this interactive novel and let me tell ya, I definately wasn't disappointed.If you haven't read \u201cVersus: The Lost Ones\u201d I highly recommend that you read it first before beginning on this one. I was thoroughly surprised that the novel had a sort of \u201cpersonality test\u201d which really peaked my interest. As you progress in the story, you'll be put in trials that question what type of person you really are. To my curiosity, the characters do indeed react to your choices and even interpret why you picked those choices, which made interacting with them even more interesting.Better yet, the story was pretty lengthy so it kept me occupied for at least 3 days straight and I don't even think I\u201d ve gotten the \u201creal\u201d ending. So this novel has plenty of replay ability. Overall this novel has its \u201chorry\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665 moments, the majority of the characters in the story are unique and have a sense of life to them, and the novel itself makes you weigh in on who you are, what your ideals are, and how you will react to the important situations as the story goes forth.. After playing the first Versus game, I can definitely say the second keeps the tension going. I'm most certainly biased here, but I'm a lover of text-based games, especially when I feel like my choices really matter and change the way events happen. I thoroughly look forward to playing the next installment.. Just a disclaimer at the start that I didn't like the first part to this series since it failed with its focus because the first game felt more like a setup; a base to build to this one.Also this is a choice-of-games game, so it will have many of the problems that the other games have - alas many of your choices seemingly won't matter.So, do you need to have to played the first game? You don't need to actually since the story of the first game is summarized in the beginning which makes you realize not much at all has happened in the first one. It still helps to have read the first one since you need to pick up on the vocabulary that was introduced back then. The sequel does offer a glossary but it doesn't explain every word. Going through the first one was still more of an exercise of pain since it used its bloated vocabulary a little bit too liberally.The last thing actually got changed in this game. Vocabulary for certain things (like the name for a race or such) are used a lot less and only when it actually needs to be talked about. I still don't understand why the word "\u2665\u2665\u2665\u2665" is censored since this is not a game for kids. Far from it in fact.It's not for kids not because this game is gory (there is actually at least one gory scene which is also described in a detailed way) or that it has sex scenes. It's because this game is hard to understand in some chapters. It opens up lots of questions about difficult topics and there are a lot of abstract topics which are also talked about in sentences that a teenager would just skim over.So, how is the story? You are basically a human space alien that is able to temporarily copy other people's abilites and dive into their memories by touching them. You hunted a monster that threatened to kill your kind but both of you get teleported to another planet. You then need to appease to people in politics.The problem that this game still has is that it tries to be more than it needs to be. This game builds the expectation that you are going to use your awesome powers, fight people and get into romancing. All of these things rather take a back seat. In fact there is a rather large sub-plot where you build your own planet. It is well written and would serve well as its own short game - I actually did like the experience it provided. The experience just feels empty if it isn't being built upon later on. You cannot visit the planet you've created and that sub-plot is just dropped and could've easily been cut.This is what the game is: a collection of sub-plots that only have remotely something to do with your main goal: Find out the identity of the champion of the player character's home planet and kill the monster that threatened to kill your people.The writing itself is actually pretty good, but the not so subtle commentaries about society are things that also didn't really need to be there. The preachiness is something common to this particular author (Zachary Sergi) which again was worse in the first game. It has become better in this sequel but it's still a bit annoying when it does pop up. An example is capitalism vs. communism which just mentions things you will already know. That one at least only pops up once unlike the commentary about religion\/customs.As much as I am criticizing this game, I still liked it after I finished the one path that I did. It did not fulfill the expectations that I had. In fact I was left rather cold on the romance department, since the pay-off was just 2 short paragraphs. I still liked the experience it provided with intrigue and the divine beings that appeared in this game.So ... do I recommend this game? If you're new to this series and your expecation is to romance people, or have thrilling fights in text form, no. There are better options for that if you didn't already check the other choice-of-games games.I recommend this game to people who have already read the first part since this actually does something with all the world building the author has done in the first part. I also recommend this to people who want to read something different which you have to spend some time with to think about.Other than that I still recommend a good choose-your-own-adventure book over this game if you are looking for interactivity in text form.. What the first book did with world building, this installment ratchets up to eleven. We get to learn a lot more about other cultures, societies, and how things operate on Versus. We also get further development on characters that were only touched on in the Last Ones, as well as incredible new ones that you meet along your journey.I think it should be noted that most of your time IS spent with new characters instead of the old ones (with a few exceptions). If that bothers you then you might not like this game.The mysteries Zack set up in the first book also get explored more here in a very satisfying way. You find answers to some things, but they often create even more questions. It doesn't feel jumbled or overly confusing though. It only serves to heighten the tension.The last thing I think is worth mentioning is the overall tone of the game. In The Lost Ones, I could create great relationships with all the people I liked and have a more or less "happy ending." But things get very political in this game. A lot of people that I really liked had VERY different views and opinions. Eventually you have to make a choice on where you stand, and no matter what you decide someone will get hurt. It's just a matter of who. In this manner, it reminds me a bit of Heroes Rise: The Hero Project. This is the kind of game that really makes you think about your ideologies and why you choose them. Even more amazingly, it doesn't make a judgment on your actions or push you towards a certain way of thinking *cough* Hero Project Redemption *cough*.Overall this game builds on the complexities of the last one in every way without becoming confusing or preachy. Versus is an increasingly fascinating world, and your character has the opportunity to become even more unique and customized to your liking.But the cuss words still suck.. it's pretty good. it follows the stories and allows you to make some major choices.not a lot of combat scene and character relationship scene, hopefully they could improve on that.but the storyline is solid.. the characters of the verses series are well diverse and the story around the characters with connected backgrounds adds to the conflict giving it a intense feel around the already intense world
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