| VersusEvil said: We had vastly different experiences playing Nobody Wants To Die it seems lol. |
I liked my blind playthrough, apart from half way through I though I might have been spoiled and while I wasn't it nagged at me. I'd say the game is up there with SOMA as best in genre and I'd rate it at a very strong 7, SOMA would be a strong 8 maybe a 9 and I can't rate these types of games at masterpiece level no matter how good SOMA is because they lack so much in the way of gameplay, there's just a few splinters with this one like everything being narrated over so you can't critically think about the investigations and little down time to ponder the story and while that helps the game flow it's not ideal to what makes something like SOMA so special and a lack of any real big story moment that wans't heavily forshadowed and pretty muvh given away near the end or anything that could only be done in video game form and not in a 2 hour film. I love the the fact that it doesn't have audio logs but aside fron the set pieces which are so heavily narrated, there is no real show don't tell type story telling in the game and nothing to make you feel smart, like your solving a puzzle piece. It's a good game but with these themes I was expecting a gut punch moment like SOMA that would stick with me for a while asgter playing and it never came. It's the platinum I have an issue with, the platinum is terrible the only part the attempts to make you think has to be searched in a guide cause it's sequenced in a specific way, the chicken detective "puzzle" as well as obtuse trophies like the shower fight but there's just nothing really here that enhances the game or my experience, coming from Wu Kong though which was quite an experience enhancement platinum.
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