I wrote up a whole review of this yesterday but for some reason Backloggd removed it?
Anyway,
First thing is first, what's up with Gerry?
Gerry, one of the main characters in this game, is a character who appears in the original Jurassic Park movie. In the one scene he is in, the triceratops scene, he is very prominent as 'the old guy with the baseball cap, sunglasses and hair comb mustache'. In this game he never wears a baseball cap or sunglasses, appears to be twenty years younger and is clean shaven, and this game takes place on the exact same day as the movie. In interview, one of the writers was asked about this and they said 'he shaved it between appearing in the movie and appearing here'. Even if I am to believe that he shaved in the middle of the day, at work, without checking on his daughter, that still doesn't explain that we see him BEFORE as well as after he goes to be in the movie. In a seperate interview, the same writer was asked what this is about. All the writer had to say is that it must've been a fake mustache.
But what did I actually think of the game? Well, there really aren't more plot holes than the movie itself has (why is Gerry just allowed to bring his daughter to the island?) It' doesn't take away from the experience. I'll be honest, this game isn't that bad. I'm usually pretty eager to turn my nose up at Telltale but the writing here was alright, the characters were enjoyable enough and none of them were boring. I was always interested to see where the story was going and the gameplay was just ok, honestly other than it just being a little less well laid out on the controller I kind of preffered the gameplay here to the walking dead. As little evolution as Telltale has in their games it's strange that there's good stuff here that is removed in later games (the 'standing still' minigame, being able to talk to people at any time instead of specific moments).
It's not perfect, it runs terribly on the PS3 and could easily be one of the worst optimised games I've ever played, the story is far too slow and could take up two thirds of the time and, most of all, this just doesn't need the gameplay. The only reason having the gameplay makes any sense at all in later Telltale games is beacuse the decisions you make influence the outcome of the narrative, but here that's just not a thing. There is, by my estimation, about two choices that affect about one line and if a character is present at the end of the game, but other than that there's nothing. What this leaves me with is the overwhelming feeling that if this was just a six-episode animated series I'd instantly call this a hidden gem, but as it is this is just a fine interactive experience.
I definitely recommend this to fans of Jurassic Park but don't think I could recommend it to anyone else, at all.
Anyway,
First thing is first, what's up with Gerry?
Gerry, one of the main characters in this game, is a character who appears in the original Jurassic Park movie. In the one scene he is in, the triceratops scene, he is very prominent as 'the old guy with the baseball cap, sunglasses and hair comb mustache'. In this game he never wears a baseball cap or sunglasses, appears to be twenty years younger and is clean shaven, and this game takes place on the exact same day as the movie. In interview, one of the writers was asked about this and they said 'he shaved it between appearing in the movie and appearing here'. Even if I am to believe that he shaved in the middle of the day, at work, without checking on his daughter, that still doesn't explain that we see him BEFORE as well as after he goes to be in the movie. In a seperate interview, the same writer was asked what this is about. All the writer had to say is that it must've been a fake mustache.
But what did I actually think of the game? Well, there really aren't more plot holes than the movie itself has (why is Gerry just allowed to bring his daughter to the island?) It' doesn't take away from the experience. I'll be honest, this game isn't that bad. I'm usually pretty eager to turn my nose up at Telltale but the writing here was alright, the characters were enjoyable enough and none of them were boring. I was always interested to see where the story was going and the gameplay was just ok, honestly other than it just being a little less well laid out on the controller I kind of preffered the gameplay here to the walking dead. As little evolution as Telltale has in their games it's strange that there's good stuff here that is removed in later games (the 'standing still' minigame, being able to talk to people at any time instead of specific moments).
It's not perfect, it runs terribly on the PS3 and could easily be one of the worst optimised games I've ever played, the story is far too slow and could take up two thirds of the time and, most of all, this just doesn't need the gameplay. The only reason having the gameplay makes any sense at all in later Telltale games is beacuse the decisions you make influence the outcome of the narrative, but here that's just not a thing. There is, by my estimation, about two choices that affect about one line and if a character is present at the end of the game, but other than that there's nothing. What this leaves me with is the overwhelming feeling that if this was just a six-episode animated series I'd instantly call this a hidden gem, but as it is this is just a fine interactive experience.
I definitely recommend this to fans of Jurassic Park but don't think I could recommend it to anyone else, at all.