Gerda: A Flame in Winter - Liva's Story

PortaPlay · May 23, 2023

Teen

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Become the leader your team needs you to be in Liva’s Story. Play as Liva – the Sparrow – after she and her small group of Resistance members are forced to flee Copenhagen and retreat to the small village of Tinglev. Desperate and downtrodden, the mission remains: regroup, patch up your wounds, and hit the German army again using sabotage, infiltration, spying, and even assassination. Opposite to Gerda’s empathic approach, Liva is not afraid of using violence and often struggles to tell revenge from justice. You will have to carefully balance her fury towards the enemy, duty towards her mission and country, and care for her teammates. A good leader is a good listener: your small team of 4 have different opinions and attitudes. They will challenge you as well as seek guidance and support as they risk certain death for Denmark. Will you become the leader your team needs?

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Critic reviews

GamesCreed
Daman Shelley · May 24, 2023
9.4
Overall, the Liva’s Story DLC is a seamless addition to the already incredible narrative of Gerda: A Flame in Winter. While it doesn’t change much or add anything revolutionary to the game or its narrative, it doesn’t need to and merely just adds a bit more context to the main game’s story.
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NoobFeed
LCLupus · May 23, 2023
8.0
As for the other aspects of Liva’s Story, such as the visuals and music, well, the visuals made use of a painted aesthetic that also appears slightly blurred. It’s a unique artistic direction that does also hide the fact that this is a lower-budget game. The animations are fine, but not particularly smooth. The animations are functional, but the art style carries it a long way. Because Liva’s Story is a beautiful game, it looks stunning but in a stylistic rather than graphically capable sense. The music is also suitably beautiful, with melancholic piano notes in the background.
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God is a Geek
Chris White · Jun 13, 2023
7.5
Gerda: A Flame in Winter – Liva’s Story manages to offer players a chance to see war from all angles, and leaves you questioning your decisions throughout. The writing is excellent, and the same art style might not appeal to those wanting crisper or more detailed environments, however, war was never beautiful painting. It was messy, violent, sorrowful, and tough. Liva’s Story is all of those things, but at the heart of it is a woman who believes she knows what the right thing is, and will do whatever she can to achieve her objective.
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