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They blamed Russia for their mid game despite moving to Prague. Thus you can't criticize it. Blah.

Spoilers Warning!

There's nothing more disappointing than me writing this review. Since 2015, I've been a fan of the LiS series, but I can't bring myself to say this game is good. Generally, story wise, it holds up better than the easily worst game in the series True Colors, but it just falls flat in same many different ways. Deck Nine are not got at making these games. The original developers, Don't Nod, weren't perfect, but they created an experience that Deck Nine couldn't recreate even if they wanted to.

I say wanted to because Deck Nine isn't interested in telling fair stories, or even interesting ones. They're interested in appealing to the current audience of mostly queer people who live in a perpetual state of revolution. No amount of social progressiveness will be enough, and the writers behind Deck Nine are not talented enough to break out of their now dominant demographic of hyper ADHD queer dorks. It ruins the experience.

Everything has to be an appeal to LGBT people. I get it, the original was literally a game about time traveling lesbians, but it was never this bad, or even in your face. With Don't Nod, it wasn't necessary you romance Chloe, or Warren, or anybody. You had a clear straight-gay line drawn in the sand, which wasn't forced upon you. Meanwhile, Double Exposure immediately pressures you into a relationship with a boring, flat, "look at me I'm a lesbian" character. Go into it blind and say no at the VERY START of the game? Well now you get to wait for the other romance option, who is also queer. What they had with True Colors was fine, Steph and Ryan. Both very likable and the only redeeming thing about that game.

Point 2: I get it, it's a modern college campus in New England, but I didn't know that everyone above the Mason-Dixon line was a homosexual or some form of LGBT. Gwen, Moses, Max (heavily pressured by the devs), Amanda, Vinh; these are your main leading cast, everyone else is irrelevant. They're all LGBT in some way. Everyone else? They're just evil straight white men, and they have to be eliminated immediately. Moses was easily the biggest forced gay character, they just made him have a male partner for no reason. It's just tossed in there on a "memory" on a photograph about him on the phone with him, and then is like never mentioned again.

Detective Alderman: Completely annihilated after one chapter, barely has any screen time. Was actually an interesting character but he's gotta die I guess.
Lucas: Screams cut content. They force Max and everyone to be a ♥♥♥♥ to this guy for no reason, and then toss in some crazy ♥♥♥♥ at the end to justify it even though there was no explanation why anyone should've hated him in the first place.

Everyone else is some sort of minority. I'm not weird for pointing this out by the way, LiS has always had a diverse cast in some way. What's weird is that this is a matter of policy and design choice.

Safi is the only normal character. She's not forcefully politically correct, she's likable, has flaws, an interesting situation, and is amazingly voiced among other compliments. Everyone else is painfully PC, DEI, queer and annoying or just completely eliminated from any relevance.

Point 3: Story incomplete. Hello? I paid fifty ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dollars for this game, and it's like HALF of whats in LiS 2.

Spoilers, but WTF. None of the choices matter AT ALL. I can't stress that enough. You could argue that's every LiS game, but you don't even get 2 different ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ endings. It's all the same so they could sell you a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥ sequel 5 years from now because thats how long it took to make this piece of ♥♥♥♥. No choice leads ANYWHERE interesting. These lazy ♥♥♥♥♥ couldn't even add points in the game with MORE THAN ONE BIG DECISION. Remember in LiS 2 where there were multiple big choices per, and then some of them intertwined with other big choices that resulted in different combinations? Remember the ending to THAT game? Nope, not here. You're paying $50 for a nicely animated graphic novel.

Point 4: DLC ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks, don't spend $80 on this game. You're better off spending it on literally anything else. Buy some merch of the first game if you really love LiS that much.

Point 5: The integrity of the first game is ruined. I sacrified Chloe in my one and only play through, and this was the only really impactful and emotional thing I felt. Reading the journal entries is heartbreaking especially when you realize she's writing as if Chloe was still around. It's kinda like that if you don't sacrifice Chloe, but it doesn't hit the same. Also Chloe leaving Max is just no plausible for me. It cannonically doesn't feel right either. In LiS 2 if you sacrificed the bay, they go on tour like its shown in DE. But that game takes place in 2016-2017, years after the storm. So Chloe just got cold feet years after Max literally sacrificed hundreds of lives for her? All of that was for nothing? I get not wanting to write Chloe into the game, but that begs the question. Why was Max needed at all?

Answer is she's not. It's literally just a soulless cash grab on the nostalgia of original fans like me.

I can sit here and ♥♥♥♥♥ for hours, but it'll do me no good. My faith in the series was low after I truly sat and thought about True Colors after I finished it, but now its completely dead. One of my favorite franchises was ruined by literal theater kids. People who are nothing and will never be anything besides quirky weirdos. There's so much more wrong about this game, but you get the jist. If you're gonna buy it anyways, whatever I tried to stop you.

In conclusion: Game should've just been about Safi and her power. Let Max and Chloe's story end. If they really cared about "their" (Don't Nod's) old stories, they would also do stuff with Sean and Daniel from LiS 2.

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mid

uhh

I like it more than i dislike it, but its still a pretty bad DLC. Overpriced and doesn't deliver a lot. If it brought content to every south american country It'd be great, but it doesn't add any new features or anything either. Pretty mid, but its still more stuff in the game.

"they can't hear my far cry.." idk i think thats what they said

mid

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