If not for my years as an elemental troll shaman leading up to playing this game for the first time I may not have played it through but sure enough, here's to infamous, for some the defacto open world superhero game, and for playstation fans everywhere the zappy thunderguy chain lightning spamming game of preference, me personally I'm more of a PSO/KH1 type of guy, ahem.
Well I liked this well enough, to be perfectly honest I prefered festival of blood in almost every aspect, it has many things holding it back, such as Cole's magnetic ass progressively becoming more and more of a liability as the game goes on, bullet spongy enemies that make a lot of the more fun abilities unreliable, boring side quests you dread to go through again after just once, sure ugly graphics and a so-so city that feels like it was copy pasted 3 times over, characters that are just disembodied voices, not a specially big fan of anyone's performance either, but that said the story is definitely the winning element for me, specifically the ending and the message it contains, how selfless and selfish people's actions are a means to an end, as much as we define ourselves as purely good or bad we expect to further ourselves by changing the world around us, reality is indiferent to either side and however good or bad we decide to become, no one gets a say when, arbitrarily, or by gods desire our hard work is taken away from us. Infamous goes on to foster themes of chaos, compassion, overambition, disenfranchisement and injustice in a very compelling fashion that tie well into its ultimatum where however you chose to live your life, it won't matter if you didn't consider the possibility that you would some day answer for your actions. If you don't adapt, or respond to what's around you, good or bad are you really who you claim to be?
Well I liked this well enough, to be perfectly honest I prefered festival of blood in almost every aspect, it has many things holding it back, such as Cole's magnetic ass progressively becoming more and more of a liability as the game goes on, bullet spongy enemies that make a lot of the more fun abilities unreliable, boring side quests you dread to go through again after just once, sure ugly graphics and a so-so city that feels like it was copy pasted 3 times over, characters that are just disembodied voices, not a specially big fan of anyone's performance either, but that said the story is definitely the winning element for me, specifically the ending and the message it contains, how selfless and selfish people's actions are a means to an end, as much as we define ourselves as purely good or bad we expect to further ourselves by changing the world around us, reality is indiferent to either side and however good or bad we decide to become, no one gets a say when, arbitrarily, or by gods desire our hard work is taken away from us. Infamous goes on to foster themes of chaos, compassion, overambition, disenfranchisement and injustice in a very compelling fashion that tie well into its ultimatum where however you chose to live your life, it won't matter if you didn't consider the possibility that you would some day answer for your actions. If you don't adapt, or respond to what's around you, good or bad are you really who you claim to be?