An interesting concept but nothing about the mechanics, characters, segments, or narrative fits together in any kind of sensible cohesive way. Though it is often entertaining until the last few broadcasts long overstayed their welcome while doing nothing new mechanically or when it's adding odd elements of pointless family expenses, drama, or tragedy.
An FMV game that has you taking over the vision mixing, censoring, ad picking, headline lean, and other tasks at a news station just as a new political party has been elected. Your choices on what to air at certain times, choices made in text segments between broadcast days, and which and if you follow certain orders or suggestions while doing your job can see the story take different paths or characters actions and fates change over a span of around 10 years.
The actual mechanics end up keeping things evolving over time tend to be dull, often poorly explained to begin with, and trying to get a particular result can lead to confusing moments. Both poor and nonsensical as any kind of political commentary which hurts text story and choice moments drama, tone is all over, segments can overstay their welcome but each broadcast day does have a checkpoint after each ad break. Often entertaining and funny when not focused on the main plot (unless you aren't entertained by a particular segment and find yourself needing to do dull tasks for 10-15 minutes before it ends unless you fail out of it or worse miss something for the narrative you wanted to do then have to go through the whole thing again) but then, due to the style of the game, you will be punished for paying too much attention to the actors and may need to see things you missed after the gameplay segments where you can review the footage that was broadcast, play the ad videos without listening into studio talk or orders, or view the moments that weren't completely available to you. When you preform actions for narrative purposes, sometimes it hurts your broadcast and possibly your score for the segment, but letting the more obvious things happen like playing certain ads or allowing the broadcast to be disrupted don't damage your score or really cause you any problems with getting fired or arrested. I wasn't sure why I was gaining or losing score during certain segments but since it only impacts your money that doesn't really seem to matter it never made much of a difference to me if I was getting an A+ or D.
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1680375861428752385
An FMV game that has you taking over the vision mixing, censoring, ad picking, headline lean, and other tasks at a news station just as a new political party has been elected. Your choices on what to air at certain times, choices made in text segments between broadcast days, and which and if you follow certain orders or suggestions while doing your job can see the story take different paths or characters actions and fates change over a span of around 10 years.
The actual mechanics end up keeping things evolving over time tend to be dull, often poorly explained to begin with, and trying to get a particular result can lead to confusing moments. Both poor and nonsensical as any kind of political commentary which hurts text story and choice moments drama, tone is all over, segments can overstay their welcome but each broadcast day does have a checkpoint after each ad break. Often entertaining and funny when not focused on the main plot (unless you aren't entertained by a particular segment and find yourself needing to do dull tasks for 10-15 minutes before it ends unless you fail out of it or worse miss something for the narrative you wanted to do then have to go through the whole thing again) but then, due to the style of the game, you will be punished for paying too much attention to the actors and may need to see things you missed after the gameplay segments where you can review the footage that was broadcast, play the ad videos without listening into studio talk or orders, or view the moments that weren't completely available to you. When you preform actions for narrative purposes, sometimes it hurts your broadcast and possibly your score for the segment, but letting the more obvious things happen like playing certain ads or allowing the broadcast to be disrupted don't damage your score or really cause you any problems with getting fired or arrested. I wasn't sure why I was gaining or losing score during certain segments but since it only impacts your money that doesn't really seem to matter it never made much of a difference to me if I was getting an A+ or D.
Screenshots: https://twitter.com/Legolas_Katarn/status/1680375861428752385