The Fall Part 2: Unbound

extremely tedious to play, no thank you

While some would say the trailer is misleading, I think it adds to the experience. I came here for a narrative-focused tale of an AI going mad, and staid for a story of redemption, humanity, and perspective with a cliffhanger ending. The story is brilliant, with some hiccups that are expected as the scope of the story and the implications of both games start coming together. And, honestly, the only thing that kept me playing. However, the gameplay is just about impossible. Graphic adventure game DNA tried and true: thankfully, moon logic was abandoned after the first game. But we graduated into "try everything with everything" type of puzzles. I am not entirely fond of puzzles that depend on me paying 100% attention all the time, but some of these could land really well. Yet, they feel like I am being shown the way rather than me discovering it. I used a guide less than the first game, but still needed it. Specially since the controls are aweful. Give me a pointer. Look at the game DEX for similar sidescroller feels. Damn... I hope that Over the Moon figures out how to do controls because that's what's holding them back. All in all: play it, but understand you'll be frustrated with controls.

This is the continuation of the first game. I liked the first one very much and was curious to see what hapenned next. I'm not dissapointed. You play ARID trying to survive and unknow enemy trying to kill her. Doing so she will encouter other robots, and change them through the game. The story is really clever, well writen with deep questioning. This is the strong side of this game for sure. The way ARID evolve and bring back into question her desicion is interesting. The gameplay is okay, but could be better. There is two type of combat, in the real world and the digital one. The last one is tricky especially with the final boss. The first, the combat system with "One" is the best because simple, stylish, but not to easy at first.The puzzle part is still here and the voice acting is incredible, especially for the butler. The voice bring life to those robots make you care for them. Some Blackspot : in the digital world you have a plateform level design. It's quite a maze and i lost like 20 minutes in the middle of the game trying to find my way. Control are not good and you will struggle turning your character to the left or to the right. The game execution isn't great, there are somme flawes. If you like well writen story about IA and robots, don't mind a decent gameplay and puzzles go for it. I hope for a third game with a better technicality and a step up in graphics.

In short: play The Fall 1, much better. This game is.. stretched too much, repetitive, has broken controls, bad aim, abstract puzzles, incoherent logic.. just do not bother.