Has anyone else played this one?
I’ve played through the first four episodes this week while I’m on vacation, and I don’t think the writing in a game has punched me in the gut to this extent since Bioshock or Dragon Age: Origins. (Though Detroit: Become Human is a close equivalent.)
I’m just blown away by the writing.
First one really was peak. I like them all though
I didn’t like how they replaced the “snap a quick pic” mechanic with a “sit down and pres a button over and over again to draw a scene” aspect of the second one, but the stories have all been good.
The twist in the first game where
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your favorite teacher teacher turned out to have a torture/rape dungeon
was insane though. Definitely threw me through a loop.
Totally agree. The first game mechanics were best.
The writing is by far the best, too. It’s a bit cringe in a clever, “yeah, I was definitely cringe in high school too” kinda way. No super painful moments, just fun/funny and sometimes mega dark. The games get more and more painful as they go on… the second game was blah, true colors was mostly pretty painful dialogue- and story-wise, and Bloom and Rage was hilariously bad, like comically horribly bad. All of the characters were horribly written and had insanely bad dialogue.
I really need to play Before the Storm! I’d also happily replay the first game… I played it near when it came out, with my partner. We both really enjoyed it.
Before the Storm is probably the least bad out of all of them, but probably because it wasn’t made by Dontnod IIRC.
But really thats just calling it the shiniest of the turds, or first place loser. LiS has never matched the peak of the original game.