The game got a lot of hate online, but I’ve generally found when a game is hated on, there’s usually something more. So I decided to actually play the game. I’m 5 hours in
Honestly I like it, for telltale like walking simulator, it sets up the story pretty well, it has some nice sci-fi beats. It’s good for what it is. It isn’t anything it promises not to be. I think it’s a good game, I’d recommend waiting until it goes on sale for $10 maybe. At that price point it’s about the cost of a movie and That’s where I put it in terms of value pricing.
If it feels like a walking simulator, that’s not at all what the store page is selling it as. It’s claiming to be all about action.
It’s a telltale game. There are action sequences but it’s like deliver us the Moon, any visual novel. Or stray,
The overarching narrative is on rails, with interactive gameplay at points, you can play an arcade game, you can play a side scroller in one flashback, there’s a punch them up shooter that’s kind of okay on the controls, there’s a couple decisions where it seems like you have choice but everything branches out then comes back at various breakpoints.
Don’t get me wrong I like it, but it is a walking simulator
Then people are entitled to be upset, because the entire store page is advertising a combat heavy action game.
Sure, agreed. If people are disappointed that’s fine, everyone is entitled to their perspective and opinion, hell I’m not even recommending people by the game right now, I think it’s worth it at $5 or $10.
The whole point of this post is I do see value in the game as it exists, maybe not as what people want it to be
Wow, that is not how the trailer presents it at all. They make it look like a spiritual successor to Hi Fi Rush. Cell shaded music combat game.
I just ordered the physical edition on Amazon anyway, figure it will be a neat curiosity item… even though the “physical edition” doesn’t actually have a disc either.
There’s like four or five opportunities to do a guitar hero style music element. So it’s not strictly a lie, but it’s not major element either