Zekkyou on 12 January 2016
I don't really see how Until Dawn and 1886 are 'essentially the same'. They're both 3rd person, and both have a strong focus on story, but that's about it. Even those two similarities are handled quite differently.
I personally enjoyed Until Dawn a lot more. It wasn't particularly scary, and the second half's sudden shift in tone was pretty odd, but while it lasted Until Dawn really sucked me in. It loses a lot of its charm in your 2nd run (where you start to see the cracks in its illusion of choice), but in that first run, where i had no idea which choices would and wouldn't be significant, i felt a real sense of danger. That's not something video games often make me feel.
