A New Beginning: Final Cut

So irreführend können Bewertungen sein. Derzeit ist es mit 3,6/5 bewertet, aber mir gefiel das Spiel sehr gut: die Geschichte mit ihrem ernsten Hintergrund, die für mich genau richtigen Rätsel, die Charaktere und die guten deutschen Sprecher.

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I was looking forward to play this game due to its highly revelent theme. The story starts out great with believable characters that all have their own motivations. I got the feeling that the story wirters did not really know themselves what they ultimately wanted to tell us with the story - towards the ending it becomes increasingly confusing and I think they didn't think through the entire time-travel implications (which is absolutely necessary in that genre). Puzzles were okay, I can't remember unfair ones but also none that stood out as impressively good.

That's kinda fresh if you ask me. I had this game installed for quite some time before I finally decided to play it through. Since I'm 60+ years old, I'm old enough to have noticed that winters in my part of the world have become increasingly warmer and wetter. Maybe that's why the game appealled to me. I love cartoons. I love cartoonish games. "A New Beginning" fulfilled most of my expectations in that respect. I liked the puzzles. I loved most of the caracters. The story was, with a couple of exceptions, believable. Graphics: One of the few things that really disturbed me was how the female protagonist walked and stood. I don't know if it was meant to be sexy but in my eyes it just looked ridicolous. Other than that the graphics reminded me very much of my teenage comic books. Yes, that's a good thing. Sound and music: Completely ok in my book. Story: The game was released in 2010, and I'm playing it 11 years later, but the topics it touches has become more and more of a reality. Some people might find it pushing the message about climate change down their throats but that doesn't stop the story from being good. To sum it up: I've played better games and a hell of a lot worse.

This is a good game, not great, but still a solid adventure title. Story is strong, characterisation is… okay, but the gameplay is particularly nice, with generally logical puzzling with some complex ones thrown in here and there (often skippable if you get really stuck). Unfortunately the game is let down by translation and performance issues; I noticed a number of dialogues that were badly translated, or even lacked english subtitles. The voice acting is also generally poor, lending very little weight to the subject matter, which was disappointing. Performance wise the game is normally fine, but I noticed a lot of audio distortion on cutscenes, and some areas had noticeable delays when moving from screen to screen (or even just moving up and down with the same screen), which got frustrating when back-tracking a lot. Overall a good game though, and worth playing. Oh, remember to inspect items in your inventory! I got stumped so many times when I forgot to!