This game contains strong language, violence, blood and gore, as well as nudity and sexual material. Individuals suffering from depression may not have a safe experience playing this game.
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This game contains strong language, violence, blood and gore, as well as nudity and sexual material. Individuals suffering from depression may not have a safe experience playing this game.
A beatiful game, and I don't only mean the graphics. It's somehow very "reduced", the gameplay is simple, there is not too much interaction with the world... but still it manages to grab you. The atmosphere is great, the characters are interesting, and it stayed interesting until the end. Great voice acting, too.
Took me around 8 hours to finish. Fully enjoyed it. :)
The game starts from an interesting premise: nobody dies anymore because their consciousness is transferred to a new body. It starts slowly by explorings how people would see life, while you conduct your investigations.
The game is very short and I feel it could have gone much further. But it is dense and interesting.
I particularly liked the investigations. You can use different tools and reconstruct what happened. Though when you do, you can't really be wrong because the technology tells you always the right answer. What you can be wrong about are your "gut feelings". Maybe this is intentional, since the protagonist doesn't have his original guts anymore...
Here's the MOST important thing to know. This isn't a detective game, so much interactive detective fiction. I know the detective itch well. This will not scratch it.
GOOD STUFF:
+ Art & atmosphere - Nothing else looks like this
+ Characters - getting past the archetypical surfaces of the two main characters, they have more charm and depth than either let on at first. (James is more interesting when you realize that he's literally trying to act like a typical noir protagonist in a lot of ways)
+ World-building - of course immortality would be commoditized, but NWtD recognizes that it would be a lot more complex than "only the rich would benefit." That being said, it still felt like I had an incomplete picture at the end, I'd have liked to have seen more of the system in action.
NOT-SO-GOOD STUFF:
- On-rails investigation - I emphasize that this is detective *fiction* because it's more concerned with keeping pace than giving you a challenge. The game basically tells you at every step how to progress the investigation. Coming off of a game like Scene Investigators, it was disappointing and almost kind of insulting. Yes, it does have these "murder board" segments that free you up a bit, but those are short and brute-forceable. Once I realized I was basically just hitting really slow QTEs to "solve" crimes I started losing interest... which admittedly might be why...
- You'll get the bad ending - probably - and then you'll have to replay the whole thing to get the one that doesn't leave a bad taste in your mouth. What's worse is it felt like punishment for not reading the writers' minds, and had nothing to do with the more obvious choices throughout the game.
- Surprisingly hard-to-follow near the end for how little it lets you think for yourself. I'm going to ASSUME I missed some details and locked myself out of the "good" ending that might have explained more.
Overall, decent purchase on sale. Maybe look up a guide to get the good ending first.
A sit down and relax game, explore what the world has to offer and chose your conversation paths for different outcomes. Not a shoot-em-up type of game, more akin to walking games with the ability to shape outcomes. Thoroughly enjoying it so far.