Segments with longer tutorials provide an option to be skipped over too, which is a thoughtful addition for players who either want to explore the system on their own or are already familiar with how things work.Īlthough random number generator (RNG) is used in Ambition: A Minuet in Power, the game takes great effort in labeling choices accurately to aid players in their decision to pick a choice over another. On the whole, tutorial messages included in the game explaining these character stats are concise and clear. The only thing preventing me from making too many manual saves is the tediousness in deleting them individually from the Load screen afterward.Ĭharacter stats that players need to manage are Yvette’s credibility, peril, and fatigue levels, as well as her favor points with various love interests and the amount of money she has. Players may save the game at any point, though it will always be saved as a new save with no option to overwrite a previous file, and there is no limit on the number of save files one can create. This may make the game look like it requires players to plan Yvette’s days very carefully but the game does not stop players from manually saving and reloading to retry at various points. There are only that many days for Yvette to do what she needs to do before her fate is sealed, and as aforementioned, Yvette can do only one task a day. While Ambition: A Minuet in Power covers the first few years of the French Revolution, players mainly control Yvette’s activities for the period of late March through early August 1789. It would be nice if upon seeing there is nothing suitable to buy, Yvette could exit the shop and head elsewhere for a different business, but I suppose travel time would have reasonably taken up the bulk of her free time. Still, it did frustrate me at first when I unintentionally wasted a day away visiting the dressmaker shop whose available dresses happened to be all out of Yvette’s budget. Such an arrangement, with an entire day gone just by attending to a single thing, is imaginably realistic for the 18th century. On days not designated with plot events, players will be able to decide Yvette’s to-do for that day, though only one task can be chosen. Typical of a stats-raising visual novel, the story is driven not only by dialogue choices but also repeated actionable tasks such as attending parties, rendezvous with love interests, going to specific shops, exploring Paris, and resting at home. And it is up to the player to decide the protagonist’s eventual fate. It was 1789 and a revolution was imminent. On top of maintaining her social status and name, Yvette soon found herself having to keep an eye on the political conflicts that were brewing in the city. After going through much humiliation at a party where she had hoped to gather information on her fiancé’s whereabouts, she decided she had to do whatever it takes to continue her life in Paris even without Armand by her side. However, her fiancé was nowhere to be found. But did it dance a graceful minuet in power or last merely a minute in power? And so the Curtain RisesĪmbition: A Minuet in Power follows the story of Yvette Decaux, a Frenchwoman who was engaged to Baron Armand de Marbo and arrived in Paris on her fiancé’s request. Released for the PC on 18 August 2021, Ambition: A Minuet in Power presents an intriguing plot combining danger, love, and power. and published by Iceberg Interactive brings players to the days right before the French Revolution in Paris, France.Ĭontent warnings for this historical title include assassination, blood, death, execution via guillotine, murder, partial nudity, sexual themes, (optional) simulated gambling, use of alcohol, and violence. Set in the year 1789, this indie stats-raising dating sim developed by Joy Manufacturing Co. Maybe it is the allure of imagining what it would be like to live in that time period, or in the case of Ambition: A Minuet in Power, the prospect of carving out your own piece of history. I’m not too keen on history as a subject but whenever a visual novel with a historical context rolls around, it tends to pique my interest nevertheless.
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