When Beyond came out and I saw the review scores, I figured that reviewers were just over the whole story-driven cinematic adventure game thing. But then Life is Strange came out and got strong reviews, and this is coming out and getting strong reviews.
Guess Beyond was just bad.
people wanted something that Beyond wasn't. They wanted Heavy Rain 2.0 with branching paths and characters possibly dying.
Beyond was just a straight-up adventure. The whole point was Jodie's journey, not selecting which path to take to see this and not see the other one. It was very clear that Quantic Dream wasn't going for it full-force. If they did, it would've been like Heavy Rain.
Anyway, I am glad there are zero posts so far asking if this game is actually a game or a movie.