CGI-Quality said:
Lucky for you, Cage isn’t the only writer. Plus, the fact that you mentioned Heavy Rain tells me you haven’t played Beyond (which was, very much, a step up in this regard).
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I saw one particular scene in Beyond and that was enough to put me off. It was a scene with an African child helping our protagonist and forming a bond through cliqued dialogue and events. The scene ends with the protagonist shooting the African Childs father. LOL. Music swells, we cry, job done. THAT'S Cage and his stupid obsession with 'wanting to make people feel emotion'. The quality of dialogue or any interaction between the characters needs to be consistent throughout the game and the Kara vid just made me laugh when I watched it.
'It's us against the world Alice' [bad but that would have been enough]
'Just the two of us.' [yeah, we understand that implicitly from the first bit of dialogue]
'We have to learn to trust each other.' [Ok, I get it. Why do you have to persuade your daughter to trust you?]
'I only have you.' [See first line of dialogue]
'And you only have me.' [see dialogue above and first line of dialogue. "Perhaps you could have just said 'we only have each other' Mum".]
'And I'm going to do everything I can to make you happy again.'
Just awful, over-writing. Cage doesn't understand less is more (which is harder to do). He can't stop himself. It's not 'human', it's cliques in speech marks. It's just a summery of something that should have been shown not explained. It's lazy.
Last edited by GribbleGrunger - on 23 March 2018