Until Dawn is one of those games which got a lot of praise but I was never much interested. Thoough when a friend offered me to sell his copy for a tenner earlier this year I took the offer and thought Not gonna play it until Halloween, I guess.
As Halloween approaches I started the game with the intention to beat it on that day. I didnt achieve my goal as I went on a trip for a few days and werent always in the mood to play the game when I came home in the evening.
But now, a week later I finally beat it and Im a bit torn on it.
On one hand it is my second favorite Heavy-Rain-Telltale-Adventures out of those that I have played after Tales from the Borderlands. The cast has characters that I like like Ash, Chris or Sam (even Josh), characters Im indifferent to like Jess and Matt and characters that I absolutely hate like Emily (I tried one time to kill her and left her on the falling fire tower which she survived ). The setting is something new for me. The QTEs make for some tension. And obligatory namedropping of Peter Stormare. I liked his performance but sometimes it felt like his face was making facial expressions which he got told to do because they could.
Now what I dont like about it is how the story unfolds. I saw the twist with Josh being the psycho a little bit ahead of time. But I liked that there is this mentally unstable dude who wants to take revenge on his friends for his sisters with just playing pranks on his friends. Shitty and messed up, but understandable at least for me.
But then there come some supernatural spider-cannibals which got a few jump-scares out of me. I really wouldve prefered if they went with a more Tucker & Dale vs Evil route and made most of the teenager deaths more accidents than you failed this QTE so it is torn apart by this grey thing. But I'm no expert when it comes to horror since I only warmed up to the genre in the last two years.
I managed to save all of the group and most important of all: the doggo. Though I was mostly able to do this because I always catched a few tidbits about things that happen in the end of the game here and there. If I didnt lay my controller down I think I wouldve gone mad if mereley seconds before the end someone died.
Overall, I liked it eventhough I wouldve liked the game going in another direction. Dont know if Ill play it again despite different outcomes. Poor Josh, though.
As Halloween approaches I started the game with the intention to beat it on that day. I didnt achieve my goal as I went on a trip for a few days and werent always in the mood to play the game when I came home in the evening.
But now, a week later I finally beat it and Im a bit torn on it.
On one hand it is my second favorite Heavy-Rain-Telltale-Adventures out of those that I have played after Tales from the Borderlands. The cast has characters that I like like Ash, Chris or Sam (even Josh), characters Im indifferent to like Jess and Matt and characters that I absolutely hate like Emily (I tried one time to kill her and left her on the falling fire tower which she survived ). The setting is something new for me. The QTEs make for some tension. And obligatory namedropping of Peter Stormare. I liked his performance but sometimes it felt like his face was making facial expressions which he got told to do because they could.
Now what I dont like about it is how the story unfolds. I saw the twist with Josh being the psycho a little bit ahead of time. But I liked that there is this mentally unstable dude who wants to take revenge on his friends for his sisters with just playing pranks on his friends. Shitty and messed up, but understandable at least for me.
But then there come some supernatural spider-cannibals which got a few jump-scares out of me. I really wouldve prefered if they went with a more Tucker & Dale vs Evil route and made most of the teenager deaths more accidents than you failed this QTE so it is torn apart by this grey thing. But I'm no expert when it comes to horror since I only warmed up to the genre in the last two years.
I managed to save all of the group and most important of all: the doggo. Though I was mostly able to do this because I always catched a few tidbits about things that happen in the end of the game here and there. If I didnt lay my controller down I think I wouldve gone mad if mereley seconds before the end someone died.
Overall, I liked it eventhough I wouldve liked the game going in another direction. Dont know if Ill play it again despite different outcomes. Poor Josh, though.
