This review contains spoilers
I gotta say the narrative really crashed and burned for me during the last act.
Which was fatal for me personally in a game that is nothing but the narrative, because the characters certainly aren't a factor since none of them actually exist. I was honestly atleast a little invested in the characters making it out alive. This was unfortunately detrimental to my experience.
I gotta question if certain mechanics in this game, such as the relationship tracking decisions, are just for show since this seemed to have no bearing on the narrative, atleast in my playthrough. Maybe it does maybe it doesn't but me even questioning this is an issue to say the least.
Technical issues all around with this one too. Weird out of place models, teleporting and disappearing NPCs the list goes on. The biggest offender has to be the pricing of this game. As of writing this game costs 30€ on Steam. However if you'd like to play with a friend your friend also has to buy the game, because the devs disabled the friend pass. So for the full coop experience you need to pay 60 bucks in total. Pretty steep for a 4 hour game. Of course multiple playtroughs are incentivised. For a one and done however this price is completley unreasonable and quite frankly disgusting.
Lastly I'd like to mention something which players in english speaking countries might not even realise. The invitee in a coop lobby is forced to play with the native dub of his current country of residence. I currently reside in Germany. This forced me to endure the god awful german dub of this game, while my friend could enjoy the english voice acting, which was apparently pretty good.
This game honestly made me appreciate the work of David Cage and I fucking hate the work of David Cage let me tell ya.
Which was fatal for me personally in a game that is nothing but the narrative, because the characters certainly aren't a factor since none of them actually exist. I was honestly atleast a little invested in the characters making it out alive. This was unfortunately detrimental to my experience.
I gotta question if certain mechanics in this game, such as the relationship tracking decisions, are just for show since this seemed to have no bearing on the narrative, atleast in my playthrough. Maybe it does maybe it doesn't but me even questioning this is an issue to say the least.
Technical issues all around with this one too. Weird out of place models, teleporting and disappearing NPCs the list goes on. The biggest offender has to be the pricing of this game. As of writing this game costs 30€ on Steam. However if you'd like to play with a friend your friend also has to buy the game, because the devs disabled the friend pass. So for the full coop experience you need to pay 60 bucks in total. Pretty steep for a 4 hour game. Of course multiple playtroughs are incentivised. For a one and done however this price is completley unreasonable and quite frankly disgusting.
Lastly I'd like to mention something which players in english speaking countries might not even realise. The invitee in a coop lobby is forced to play with the native dub of his current country of residence. I currently reside in Germany. This forced me to endure the god awful german dub of this game, while my friend could enjoy the english voice acting, which was apparently pretty good.
This game honestly made me appreciate the work of David Cage and I fucking hate the work of David Cage let me tell ya.