An enjoyable choose your own "narrative adventure" game.
The music, acting and overall story are strong, decisions are mostly interesting and without spoiling this game can have some dramatically different outcomes, more dramatic than you'd expect.
Presentation wise, I liked it, the actor stills are nice and they convey what is needed with real human faces whilst (I assume) not taking as much money to make or as much power for the machine to run. I do find it odd how many other things are still in motion such as cars but otherwise I appreciate the bold aesthetic choice.
The game does fail in one big way for me and that's it's pacing.
As Dusk Falls is split up like a TV show and prestige telly is clearly what it aims to be, as mentioned the music and acting are good and do hit their target but it's narrative highs and lows do not.
Well, at least for a good show.
The pacing not only makes the end half feel slow because of the highest peak is in the middle but the game itself feels incomplete. Maybe it is?
I would definitely be up for playing more and would be much more interested in following the story of the As Dusk Falls cast further than your Life is Strange's and the rest.
That's another heavy on story/light on gameplay title I've played recently from GamePass and whilst this is probably the one I'd put bottom of the pile it's still a solid game in it's own right and maybe the one I'd immediately want to play more of.
The music, acting and overall story are strong, decisions are mostly interesting and without spoiling this game can have some dramatically different outcomes, more dramatic than you'd expect.
Presentation wise, I liked it, the actor stills are nice and they convey what is needed with real human faces whilst (I assume) not taking as much money to make or as much power for the machine to run. I do find it odd how many other things are still in motion such as cars but otherwise I appreciate the bold aesthetic choice.
The game does fail in one big way for me and that's it's pacing.
As Dusk Falls is split up like a TV show and prestige telly is clearly what it aims to be, as mentioned the music and acting are good and do hit their target but it's narrative highs and lows do not.
Well, at least for a good show.
The pacing not only makes the end half feel slow because of the highest peak is in the middle but the game itself feels incomplete. Maybe it is?
I would definitely be up for playing more and would be much more interested in following the story of the As Dusk Falls cast further than your Life is Strange's and the rest.
That's another heavy on story/light on gameplay title I've played recently from GamePass and whilst this is probably the one I'd put bottom of the pile it's still a solid game in it's own right and maybe the one I'd immediately want to play more of.