As Dusk Falls

Peak storytelling, but I can't in good faith recommend this game with no end, it just got me frustrated ending with a cliffhanger and a lot of questions without answers...

Jesus, this is bad. Some of the worst writing I've ever seen in a game. Immediately after finishing it, the first thing I did was try to find a picture of the dev team, expecting to see an endless wave of blue haired culture warriors. Instead, I found a behind the scenes video where, 14 seconds in, they start talking about the diversity of their team. "We're writing for as many people as possible, to be as inclusive as possible." And honestly, I wasn't surprised. I clocked this horrendous writing style about five minutes in. You're immediately forced to play as some fat dude who has the aura of a pencil, is completely submissive to his wife, and is pathetically soft spoken. The writing, in its attempts to please everyone, seems terrified to take any risks or say anything slightly edgy for fear of offending someone. And before anyone thinks this is just me hating on games that try to be progressive, I've played Life is Strange and had absolutely no problem with it. The issue here is the writing. It constantly feels like the characters are being written to tick boxes rather than actually behave like believable people. Oh and the art style is absolutely hideous too. Lazy, uninspir…

The game is good but the ending is bad because of the last scene. It tease a chapter 3 that will never come out.

free my boy jay!

Honestly, making the characters out of real people filmed against a green screen and then inserting them into the game was a questionable choice. That said, the game isn’t actually bad — especially considering the mandatory DLC (the As Dusk Falls — High-Resolution Texture Pack), which significantly increases the download size. I enjoyed the game; it’s structured much like [url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1222140/Detroit_Become_Human/]Detroit: Become Human[/url], featuring the same kind of branching narrative tree. They didn’t overdo it to the point where you have to replay the entire game just for certain achievements — though a few such achievements do exist. For instance, some require specific actions within a single chapter. However, if you generally follow the path that aligns with the achievement requirements (simply making the choices you would naturally make), you can largely avoid that hassle. And let’s not forget the ability to restart from a checkpoint without overwriting your save. I’d also like to add a word about how easy it is to obtain achievements. I play the game however I want (which is the nature of the genre), and as I mentioned, you can restart from an…

good game!