Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories

This game intends to capture the absurdity of human behavior after a world-shattering disaster by being an absurd caricature of survival adventure games. Many design choices are limited in scope: you will walk around the districts of a fictional Japanese city, trying to escape a crumbling city after a devastating earthquake and find safety, and making many acquaintances with NPCs along the way. The game is janky, awkward, even poorly made and, speaking plainly, "bad." But the game has such a heart, such a willingness to see its weird ideas to its end that it will encourage you to see more. Sadly, the game will leave you wanting more. The characters you meet are not realistic - they are soap-operatic, but so appropriate, given other contexts and aspects of the game and plot, that the whole thing, the story that you, the player character, can determine along with the destinies of characters that you will affect, sort of feels brilliant in the end. This is central to the game: the adventure and narrative direction of the people you meet at the moment their lives might be shattered and forever altered. How should they react to such a fearful situation? Do you agree with their behavior and motives? What kind of person will you prove to be? How do you meet the moment that might change your life forever? Disaster Report 2 (or Raw Danger) is the more impressive game. The scenarios are more grounded and the gameplay is appropriate for the situations of a catastrophic rain storm and flood in that older game. Disaster Report 4 swings and misses in more areas of the final product. It is less fun, not as tense, the stories of the different characters do not overlap and are by all means pretty underwhelming. But Disaster Report 4 carries a charm and willing cleverness and irreverence that makes it worth checking out if one can stomach a very awkward, head-scratching experience.

Personally, I don't know why this gets some negative reviews, I like what I've experienced so far and I'm looking forward to how the story develops. It's not always immediately apparent what you're supposed to do next, but then that adds to the realism for me, a difficult situation leads to confusion all-around. The graphics and sound are perfectly suited to the game. as are the many choices you have presented to you along the way, as it likely would be in a real disaster, moral decisions would affect those around you, not just yourself. I like that aspect of games like this, it makes you think how YOU would react and you do tend to base your choices according to your own moral compass :-). Despite some negative reviews, I'm glad I added this to my collection and I'm looking forward to how my own choices affect the characters around me and my character, should be interesting...

Only recommended for players who have played 1-3 games. Why? : If the first generation is a classic, the second generation is the peak, and the third generation is full of castration on the system and perfunctory in the plot, the probability of buying this game is that the players who have played the previous several works. (If you want to try this series, it is recommended to play 2 generations and then 1 generation before deciding whether to continue playing) How good is the game? : Depending on who you compare it to, taking this game as the first in the series will probably dissuade you a few hours before the game. However, compared with the third generation, the gameplay has been removed from the game, but the plot is still good to see, and the quality is much better than the third generation of the pipeline plot. (In addition, good picture quality and optimization are also worth mentioning)

The game is great. It has in-game graphics settings. It's the fourth game in the series, but the story is standalone, so you don't need to play the previous games to enjoy this one.

This game wouldnt start for me. The Keyboard and Mouse ddin't work in the menu screen and the support given was insuffcieint to fix this. I was so looking forward to playing what looked like a promising game. However it was not meant to be. i can thus give it no more than one star.