Yes, today is May 28th, 2009 and The Void is available in Germany!

Just to make it clear: This version has 100% German text/speech. Those of us waiting for the English release will have to wait a little longer

Apparently, the German voice acting is excellent!

The game can be bought from:
* Amazon.de
* And probably a lot of other online stores that I don't know about
* Oh, and stores in the 'real world' too!

I hope plenty of German players will discover and enjoy this wonderful game.

/me shakes fist

*cries*

I'm as desperate for the English version as you guys I'm still glad that Germany gets to play it now, though.

On that subject:

PC Games.de reviewed 'The Void' and gave it 75%. They called it 'fascinating and grotesque' and 'the most unusual action-adventure of the year.'

* Article in German
* Google-Translated version

There's an insanely complicated graph on the second page, apparently charting the interest level of the reviewer throughout the game

After seeing the screen shoots, some interesting notes:

-It appears there is now a special background for each brother, very well done if I might add.
-Apparently the new areas that where added where addits in each sister chamber
[EDIT] -What the hell did you guys did to Mongolfier?

Overall I think 75% is good. What do you guys at IPL think?

To kill the curiosity a bit:
German Demo

You need to register in the site to download, but that shouldn't be too hard.

(Yes I'm already dling)

Preview based on the german demo so far:

-The tutorial is now integrated into the game, hence non-skippable
-As you draw you see the amount of colour beeing spent
-Who turned on the lights on the game?
-Quest log?? What quests??
-Slight rework of the journal screen, I can live with that
-Mongolfier is now bald
-Could be tutorial but it seems that the Nameless Sister no longer gives her full colour, so possible story change there
-The extra locations seem to be addits
-Not enough colour at start, again could be the tutorial
-Time doesn't seem to advance when you exit the chambers
-Something seems wrong with the hearts GFX, they aren't "defined" enough
-Sligh graphical tweaks here and there as they seem sharper

Then again, I'm a biased view since I've played and fallen in love with the Russian version

Any DRM on that demo (any nasty protect.dll or similar hanging around)?

Nope, the demo doesn't have any explicit DRM

Thanks! I will check it out. Also, thanks for your observations so far

hi together.

i bought the german version a played it now for a couple of hours.

i have always not enough color to stay alive. Does somebody have some tips?

i already started a second time a tried it on a other way but still the same problem.

mostly the chambers doesnt have color anymore and its a long time till the next cycle change.

maybe i dont understand something but the hole thing is weird. now it looks like i need to start again.. have only color for a couple
of seconds.. and no colors anymore in the chambers..i can not even move there..

would be great to hear you experience...

Well, I only played the Russian version in which the start is different, but from what I've seen on the German demo by best advice is:

-Just because you have two hearts (being the second one from the mine) doesn't mean you have to fill them. Just remember the more hearts you fill the faster you will loose colour.
-Don't spend you initial colour on the trees, if the tutorial forces you too, just pain one with a little bit of colour to pass the tutorial.
-If in a thigh situation you can transfer colour from you palette to your memory; just draw the donor glyph on the ground (be careful to get it right so not to waster colour) and then pick up the colour again.

That is the best advice I can offer after having played the German demo.

I believe you can't do this here. In a new version there is no taking the colour of the drop back to your memory, once you dropped it.

OR, you can use a lot of your color on trees - you charge trees to the full extent, while you can during cycle 1. Then on cycle 2 you'll get too much Color. Use it on the trees again, until you have a garden to support you.

Don't give up! The game may be difficult, but difficult is interesting.

thx for the tips..

- what i didnt know is "Just remember the more hearts you fill the faster you will loose colour".. that will help..

- thats right, its not possible to drop back the colour...

- difficulty is ok.. but if i need always to restart after 3 hours .. because i did something wrong in the beginging.. thats not really funny..

- ah its possible to power up the trees? ---> "Then on cycle 2 you'll get too much Color. Use it on the trees again, until you have a garden to support you" again something what i
didnt know..

so thx.. i will try it now again with this additional infos.. probably now i will work better..

Well, that's what autosaves are for - you could return 1 cycle back instaed of restarting. Though I know what you're talking about - that can be a bit annoying.
It's just a strategy, not a must-do.

Good luck!

By power up the trees, he means fill them up to max capacity (you can see that on the curved bar where your health is located. The more you fill them, the more they give back in the next cycles.

What I mean by the hearts is that if you fill one heart you only loose Lympha thru that heart (but only gain Nerva from that heart). If you fill two hearts you "loose" Lympha at twice the rate, expecialy if you are using yellow.


Why did you guys took out the palette to memory trick?

so i could manage it to get further.. but it is still a battle with time and colour

found out that the trees somewhen doesnt give colour anymore.. does somebody now after how much cycle
i can refresh the trees.. ? because of that i needed again to load a save.. i was empty of gold and smaragd and needed still little bit
for the first sister.. but the chambers didnt gave me anymore .. only other colours..

In the old version the trees couldn't be refreshed at all. They usually gave colour for about three cycles.)
Good luck! Maybe the next cycle the needed colours will be born.

Usualy the game tries to ballance the colou growth with the available sisters.

So if you find yourself without colour to give to Ava, focus on Uta, and vice versa. Otherwise try to linger a bit and see if the next cycle gives you more colour.

On my longplay the game only gave my green and the beginning, so I focused on Uta.

Unless the game changed a lot, there is no reasson to keep reloading as you'll always have something to do and if you manage colour well it is hard to screw up.

I sadly guess that he has to feed the first sister so that she let him pass to Ava and Uta...(( Or am I mistaken?

jup.. it was the first sister.. the path to ava and uta... and i ran out of other colours..

its tricky.. but its fun.. and the german dubbing ist great so far.. !

Just got pass the Nameless Sister during the 1st cycle using the German Demo.

Here is what you do:

-Grab all the colour in the Sister chamber once you start.
-Speak to her
-After the body screen is available put all the gold in the middle heart
-Talk to her again and giver her all your green and gold.
-Use only blue to travel (This is very important for now)
-Leave, go the mine
-Grab the second Glyth and all the colour in the mine
-Before you exits the mine fill the new heart with green and replenish the gold
-Go the reservation and harvest all the colour, replenish both hearts before leaving
-Go the garden, gather all the colour, and paint a tree blue using the minimum amount possible
-Go back to the Sister
-Before talking to her again, remove all the green from the second heart and put gold in there
-Give her all the green and gold.
-Exits the chamber but before that refill all the hearts, one with green the other with gold
-Don't move after you exit and accelerate time to gain more green and gold always filling them if they are short.
-Re-enter the chamber and giver her all green and gold.
-keep doing this, and if everything goes well, she should let you pass and the end of the first cycle, beginning of the second cycle.

-Remember to always use blue to travel
-Remember to always fill the maximum amount of hearts possible with gold before giving her or any other sister colour.






Some addition to my nitpick list:
-Time doesn't flow once you exits a chamber?
-Nerva automatic goes to the pallet? No sure if that is a good idea.
-Looking at the map.... upper right corner.... where the hell is Ole?
[EDIT]: Another nitpick: Where is the talk Glyth to be used on Sisters?

Update:

Using a special cheat

-seems I found Ole :D:D:D:D
-New chambers are brother chambers, not adits, al bight being yellow.
-The amount of colour you need to advance a sister is higher acording to the level she is (i.e. you more colour from 2 to 3 than from 1 to 2)
-The talk Glyth has been transformed into a creature lure glyth

EDIT:
-It is no longer necessary to charge attack glyths, the colour you spend on the glyth is the colour used to charge the attack.