kokichi
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Time Played
8h 30m
Days in Journal
3 days
Last played
January 19, 2023
First played
February 4, 2022
Platforms Played
With significant time passed, and wide gaps in my memory, I replayed Obra Dinn. I recognized and identified very few characters on sight... maybe 5, 6? So there was a decent chunk of re-discovery.
Wonderful by most measures. Still, the true ending offsets the pacing; keen disappointment, as I felt the first time.
Wonderful by most measures. Still, the true ending offsets the pacing; keen disappointment, as I felt the first time.
As I have previously quipped, Return of the Obra Dinn is the gold standard for detective games.
Brilliant piece of investigative media. Not a single intrusion; never outright helping you along but assuring that the player does not immediately spiral into a confused, intertangled web of characters and events.
Unfortunately, Return of the Obra Dinn stumbles, hard, around the halfway point. All the pieces fell into place in rapid succession - nevertheless I still enjoyed myself, only significantly lesser when compared.
Personally I find the story's execution boring and dislike how the second-to-last accessible area is almost entirely irrelevant to the greater plot. I suppose this is a problem with telling a story non-chronologically; readers begin to assume everything is relevant and begin to invent their own fantasy of the story - causing a lot of disappointment with the reality mismatch.
Finally, the true ending of Obra Dinn is so close to being perfect. Alas, it over-explains itself. I desperately wish the game ended upon my last oh moment, the awe-horrified realization of why I had been given an amputated hand.
Brilliant piece of investigative media. Not a single intrusion; never outright helping you along but assuring that the player does not immediately spiral into a confused, intertangled web of characters and events.
Unfortunately, Return of the Obra Dinn stumbles, hard, around the halfway point. All the pieces fell into place in rapid succession - nevertheless I still enjoyed myself, only significantly lesser when compared.
Personally I find the story's execution boring and dislike how the second-to-last accessible area is almost entirely irrelevant to the greater plot. I suppose this is a problem with telling a story non-chronologically; readers begin to assume everything is relevant and begin to invent their own fantasy of the story - causing a lot of disappointment with the reality mismatch.
Finally, the true ending of Obra Dinn is so close to being perfect. Alas, it over-explains itself. I desperately wish the game ended upon my last oh moment, the awe-horrified realization of why I had been given an amputated hand.