This would be better news if they let you configure your controls. Their current scheme of using the analog sticks to do all the actions is so uncomfortable for me on the dualshock style controllers. I wish they would let you use D-Pad and face buttons, but so far as I know, they never added that in to the game.

@3, You can use the D pad and face buttons for menu navigation but that's it.

@4 are you ever satisfied with anything? I mean really all I've ever seen you do is bitch.

Just got the PlayStation version to support the developer. I am on PS five. I wonder if the intended vibration feedback will work properly. Seeing as I have played the last of us part two‘s PS4 version on the PS five and it wasn’t optimized, this will be interesting. I will probably also download this on my PS4.

I'm probably going to pick up the switch version even though I got it on itch and steam already. I'm wondering how the whole walk slowly thing will work since the switch joysticks don't have nearly as much motion as any xbox or playstation style ones. I guess I might want to get a pro controller and play in table top or tv modes.

I didn't understand so much of it, I wish subtitles were available

@14, That's you. People who don't speak English as a first language may not be able to.

Can't speak to the translation debate, but while I'm glad the game is out on more platforms for people, I really wish the devs would get off their collective rears and come up with a sequel!

So far, not one of these audio rich first person adventure games , with the exception of the somethinelse games on Ios, blind legend, echoes of livia, , even A western drama or terraformers, has ever had a sequel which expands upon  their gameplay or story.

They always go the same way, first person navigation in audio is treated as if it's a unique feature, stereo, static combat of the hear and react variety, great acting, great environments and often a semi-decent story.

But that is as far as they go!

The sighted community says: "Oh how wonderful! A video game without video, I've never heard of such a thing! " Then goes straight back to the latest tripple A game.

The audiogaming community goes: "Combat is too easy! I completed this the day I got it! Why can't we have good games like sighted people have!"

The developers  always say: "We were targeting this at people new to audiogames, so the difficulty had to be easy!"

and nothing ever happens until the next time!

The games aren't bad, they usually sound amazing and have pretty decent story and acting, but we just see the same pattern repeating again and again!

The Vale actually had several plot elements that could be expanded to a second instalment, the fey warr and more on the other world and Alex's powers particularly, and if a second game did come out, there would be an excuse to expand the gameplay, maybe have a bit more free-form combat, maybe let you do a bit more questing, maybe have different weapons that changed more than just your hp and degree of fatigue.

Don't get me wrong, I've played through the vale twice, once on normal, once on hard and enjoyed it both times, but why in the name of almighty King Kong's gigantic hairy back side! Can't we actually see a sighted dev studio with a decent sized budget make one of these projects and actually:  Move! Forward! For! Once!

@17, I agree with this.
The Vale is not a bad game, but there are things they could've done differently.
The first problem I have is that the game holds your hand way too much.
It's good for people that are new to the world of audio games, but they should've given us the option to disable the tutorial prompts if we want.
As for the combat, I do wish we weren't limited to the standard Bop It style that most audio games use, I will say that Falling Squirrel made one of the best combat systems using this style.
Unlike other games that use this system, I like that you can't just spam attacks in a given direction. You actually have to time your attacks and be careful not to overdo things.

Sequel idea: Alex gets summoned to the future by her distant descendants and must unravel the mystery behind a plague causing the people of the land to go berserk. With newly acquired plasma sword  laser gun and infrared vision visor, she will traverse wild environments spanning horizontal and vertical planes. Undoubtedly, she will at some point acquire a grapling hook to help scale those perilous ledges, and a jetpack to prevent her from plummeting to her death when used in a timely manner.