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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 24.9 hrs on record (10.4 hrs at review time)
Posted: 5 Feb, 2015 @ 7:55am

THIS REVIEW MAY CHANGE AS EPISODES ARE RELEASED

I don't know what's up with people overreacting to games with a different approach to storytelling. It seems that everything that doesn't involve explosions and guns is an instant masterpiece for most reviewers. While this game tries to be different from most games by being more story-driven and less interactive (even though we can walk by ourselves and "explore"), it is basically focused on decision making and seeing how that affects the story. Now don't get me wrong, that is a good thing, but the story in this game is too childish for it to attract my eye.

The problem with this game is that they made the characters too young, specially the main one who is 18 buy behaves like a 14-year-old. There's so much teen angst in her personality that it makes me want to rewind time back to when she was a toddler and change the way their parents raised her. Most of her dialogues are simply idiotic, and it seems that she keeps wanting to rewind time just to get the right answers for meaningless conversations. Is there anything more pathetic than that?

So far, the story is bland and poorly executed. I don't want to spoil anyone, but honestly, who gives a ♥♥♥♥ about what's going to happen?


Concerning the main game, there are some issues:
- Lip-sync: as many have mentioned, this has to be one of the worst lip-sync'ed games I've ever seen. They didn't even bother
- FOV (field of view): TOO DAMN CLOSE. I have to almost to 360 turns to see ♥♥♥♥ around me
- Graphics: it's clear they approached this "let's make it look like a canvas painting" style to save resources and textures. Some people will like it, some will hate it
- Soundtrack: I read many people saying how awesome the soundtrack in this game was. It simply isn't. Every song sounds like (a couple of chords strum on an acoustic guitar and some soft pop lyrics). There's even a part where a character gets warned to "turn that punk ♥♥♥♥ down" when the music sounded more like Lady Gaga than like Sex Pistols.


As a piece of advice, and to sum it up, I’d recommend you to wait for all the episodes to be released and then see if reviews are still positive. I ordered them all after I jumped the hype wagon and I will be playing it and updating this review to reflect my final opinion on this, even though I don’t have high hopes for this.
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