Posted on: December 29, 2024
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A political game that pulls its punches
A review from someone who actually played the game with the DLC It's an unapologeticly political game, which I like. It's a leftist game, which I like. It's alternative history cell shaded stylized single player narrative driven Telltale/Heavy Rain/Life is Strange kind of game, which I like. But in typical Telltale fashion only a handful of your choices actually meaningfully influence the story, even though the sheer number of small choices that you can make (and that the game remembers and in some way reflects) is huge. By the game's final chapters it's storyline starts to become positively overloaded with all the strands trying to somehow tie themselves into a coherent whole but the end result being, on the whole, more unsatisfying than satisfying. It touches upon dozens of real-world political issues, but it pulls its punches and shies away from actually meaningfully exploring many of them (for example the issue of disinformation and racism essentially get hand waived away through the use of a supernatural McGuffin and almost entirely ignored respectively). If you set out to make a political game you should keep it focused. While the writing is good, the characters generally interesting, the story needs more focus. Gameplay is similar to the aforementioned games with the addition of a third person combat system, which feels a bit clunky. I originally bought it on the PS4 and the camera system and repetitiveness of the fights, which happen a bit often in the second half of the game, make it feel spurious. The game is really at its best when you're interacting with characters, which is thankfully most of the time. There's also a small rhythm musical mini game which you'll probably enjoy if you like punk rock. It's nice to have, and it tends to add some variety. I didn't encounter any technical issues but graphically the game is really not a tour de force - exactly like a Telltale or QD game, with clunky animations, but interesting stylized visuals.
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