This review contains spoilers
The 16 hour long game that took me a year to finish. Though, I guess it's not all that uncommon for me.
I played the first episode in July because one of my friends was very into the series, and I felt like at least giving it a little bit of a shot.
Shockingly enough, I didn't hate it. I was actually interested in the story they were about to tell, so I told that friend that I would play the rest of it, but only if the remaining episodes went on sale. I wasn't that interested.
I eventually learned that this game never fucking goes on sale! Not even for big seasonal sales, the only reason I finally bought the rest of them was due to the developers having a 15th anniversary sale. I would watch the remastered version get discounted several times, but the most it ever went down was $20, which is already full price for the original.
Anyway, to talk about the actual game now, it was decent enough. Episode 2 was a drag to get through with how much they required me to rewind for a buncha random option select shit. I liked episode 3! I finished episode 3 thinking "wow! This is a cool setup, I hope they really go somewhere with what they've built from this point!" And then everything basically returns to normal about half an hour later. A bit unfortunate, I really wanted to see what all they could do with such a fucked up timeline, but I guess they couldn't let that go on for too long.
After that, 4 and 5 just kinda started to fall off for me. The longer it went on, the more just absurd things became and I could already barely take anything seriously with how annoying and/or lifeless a lot of the dialogue could be. Some really cool concepts throughout this whole game, but damn they know how to fumble.
Solid 6/10, I doubt I'll be checking out any of the later games. That might take a bit more convincing.
can't help but think what everything was like everywhere else while this was all happening in Wherever, Oregon.
I played the first episode in July because one of my friends was very into the series, and I felt like at least giving it a little bit of a shot.
Shockingly enough, I didn't hate it. I was actually interested in the story they were about to tell, so I told that friend that I would play the rest of it, but only if the remaining episodes went on sale. I wasn't that interested.
I eventually learned that this game never fucking goes on sale! Not even for big seasonal sales, the only reason I finally bought the rest of them was due to the developers having a 15th anniversary sale. I would watch the remastered version get discounted several times, but the most it ever went down was $20, which is already full price for the original.
Anyway, to talk about the actual game now, it was decent enough. Episode 2 was a drag to get through with how much they required me to rewind for a buncha random option select shit. I liked episode 3! I finished episode 3 thinking "wow! This is a cool setup, I hope they really go somewhere with what they've built from this point!" And then everything basically returns to normal about half an hour later. A bit unfortunate, I really wanted to see what all they could do with such a fucked up timeline, but I guess they couldn't let that go on for too long.
After that, 4 and 5 just kinda started to fall off for me. The longer it went on, the more just absurd things became and I could already barely take anything seriously with how annoying and/or lifeless a lot of the dialogue could be. Some really cool concepts throughout this whole game, but damn they know how to fumble.
Solid 6/10, I doubt I'll be checking out any of the later games. That might take a bit more convincing.
can't help but think what everything was like everywhere else while this was all happening in Wherever, Oregon.