played this over nearly two weeks with my gf and it was a blast! absolutely fits the bill for me in terms of being a narrative focused video game where your choices have consequences, and it also being a horror game made the whole experience such a joy for me (i know, i should probably get round to playing until dawn at some point too). you can tell the writers of this are slasherheads in the way they gleefully fulfil certain genre archetypes and expectations and the casting is truly wonderful too - david arquette! tim raimi! skyler gisondo! those are just the names i recognised beforehand but there are some really fun performances across the board, i could go through everyone but miles robbins (dylan) and grace zabrinskie (eliza) stood out for me.
i think the devs and writing team did a great job instilling a real sense of jeopardy in this game - i care about the actions and decisions i'm making because it does feel like at any moment i could irreversibly kill a character i like and lose them for the rest of my experience, and when people do end up dying i really feel it, particularly when their deaths are as brutal and gory as they are here. we ended up getting three playable characters killed during our playthrough which i was ~pretty~ happy with? considering how bad it can get? and yeah it really felt like it mattered and we were pretty happy with our choices all in all when we reflected on them which is a really nice feeling to get from a game.
particularly when we considered how natural it felt too! considering the enormous possible outcomes and endings in the game we never felt our ending was weird or railroaded, it just felt like how a movie might play out, which was really neat. and a pretty original movie at that, for all the ways it might be archetypal in quite fun ways it also feels genuinely fresh and of its own unique flavour - blending a couple of spooky horrible things together into a compelling mystery thats experienced by a pretty memorable cast of characters - the quarry is special because its a game but if this was just a movie i think it'd still be a pretty fun one regardless.
i think the devs and writing team did a great job instilling a real sense of jeopardy in this game - i care about the actions and decisions i'm making because it does feel like at any moment i could irreversibly kill a character i like and lose them for the rest of my experience, and when people do end up dying i really feel it, particularly when their deaths are as brutal and gory as they are here. we ended up getting three playable characters killed during our playthrough which i was ~pretty~ happy with? considering how bad it can get? and yeah it really felt like it mattered and we were pretty happy with our choices all in all when we reflected on them which is a really nice feeling to get from a game.
particularly when we considered how natural it felt too! considering the enormous possible outcomes and endings in the game we never felt our ending was weird or railroaded, it just felt like how a movie might play out, which was really neat. and a pretty original movie at that, for all the ways it might be archetypal in quite fun ways it also feels genuinely fresh and of its own unique flavour - blending a couple of spooky horrible things together into a compelling mystery thats experienced by a pretty memorable cast of characters - the quarry is special because its a game but if this was just a movie i think it'd still be a pretty fun one regardless.