Beyond: Two Souls

I played Detroit: Become Human on PS4 a few years ago and loved it, then bought Heavy Rain and was considerably less impressed. The negative reviews for Beyond: Two Souls made me hesitate before buying it, even at a bargain price, but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Yes, the controls are a bit fiddly at times (though with an Xbox controller it really wasn't too bad), and yes, it's more of an interactive movie than a traditional game. But it's involving, and the non-linear narrative works really well. The plot gets a bit daft at times, but I thoroughly enjoyed my 10+ hours with the game. For the £3-something I paid, it was a great buy.

Unplayable with mouse and keyboard some of the worst controls I have come across . Potiencially good game completly ruined making the controls THIS bad must having been harder than doing just up/down/ left/right

goood game, very funny and interesant

David Cage's games are a weird thing. They're generally praised by people who don't really know better when it comes to storytelling, mostly because what makes them special is the amount of genuine player choice in them. There's no way to sugarcoat it: a game with good writing will usually have little in the way of meaningful choices, and a game with many choices will have its writing suffer. This is generally the case for Cage's games. Lots of choice on what to do (the story will even continue if some characters die), with multiple endings available. This is great, but unfortunately the storytelling in these games tends to be preposterous. So when a game like this one comes out, where there's very little in the way of actual choice, most of it being on rails, you'd expect the story to be incredible. Unfortunately, this is probably his worst story yet. Technically speaking there's nothing exceptionally jarring about the story (save for how disconnected some chapters are), it's just it's all been done so many times before and better. You can predict exactly what'll happen at every step because you've seen it so often. There's absolutely no effort at all put into the writing and it's a testament to the skill of the main stars that they can even make the painfully trite dialogue sound in any way engaging. Heavy Rain certainly cheats when it comes to its story and characters, but at least it does SOMETHING. Beyond refuses to put the slightest effort. I can only recommend it if you have never seen more than three movies in your entire life (and even then chances are you'll still run into familiar territory here) or if you are a diehard Willem DaFoe fan and absolutely must have everything with him in it. Otherwise your money and time are better spent elsewhere.

I tried to like the game but it really is very bad. While it tries to make the story interesting, the fact that each scene is like a glimpse of what happened but not directly related to what was happening right before or after makes it worse.