The original was a blast, played it back in the day. But never tryed the second one, cause my PC was not having it. I am doing it in 2024. Hell, it's as good a time as any. This is as good if not better than the first one in terms of gameplay. Dual control is a lot better Very personal and hearthfelt story, no twist like in the first one, but a very competent story. Memorable cast of characters, Sinclair and Lamb being a few mentions.
PRO: Presentation is perfect Story is cool, intricate and makes perfect use of metaphores into the concrete It feels rewarding discovering the story It unravels differently for everybody It playes on 2 meta-layers Very well acted CONS (if you wanna call it that): 2 mechanics to use making up 1 gamplay system yeah, that is it, that is why you see low rated reviews. - they put it up to feminism, because female characther equals feminism bad i guess - has no gameplay therefore not fun Let me put it like this. It has the right amount of gameplay for what it aims to be. The game is litterally to find out HER STORY. That's it. If you cannot find any appreciation for how this experience is crafted, it's preferance and you should not be judged for it. But I feel some might hold this game to standards reserved for totally different experiences, or judge it through the lense of some personal, unrelated mindset. Judging something by number of mechanics and gameplay variation as objective truth is obviously flawed. By this definition, R6S is galaxies better than CS, and Tekken is the geatest fighting game of all time, cause every character has 100+ moves. This is NOT a story about feminism. This is NOT a mechanically intensive game. it has to mechanics: -search for clips -and tag the clips the serach mechanic is more of a 3 way system - one word - 2 word - or "quotation" (this together with tagging create the one system by which you interact with the game and advance) This is the Dark Souls of interactive media, it doesn't even tell you if your deduction was accurate... but will still hold a plot twist. From a purely directional standpoint, to me it's insane that they managed that. I love my R6S and my Dota and my Tekken and my Rollerdrome, but i did not came here for that. I came here because i read the description of the game, i watched the trailer, and i got exactly what i was expecting. Not really actually... I did not expect a masterpiece.
