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Nov. 4th, 2010 03:02 pmDay 3 - A game that is underrated.
Umm. Hm. I think Shadow of Destiny/Memories and Fahrenheit are two games that get overlooked a lot which I believe is a real shame.
SoM (it was Memories over here, I'm sure) was actually a fairly short, sort of adventure/puzzle game, more of a point and click kind of game than anything else. It's on the PS2 and the graphics are passable and most of the time it's a fairly simple game. But the real genius of it is in the story. It's not a game you play once. You have to replay it, several times, to really find out what the hell is going on. It has several endings and you have to see them all to really make sense of anything. It's sometimes the smallest things that make a difference and I think it's one of the few games that gets anywhere near capturing that "every decision has a consequence" sort of thing. It's not perfect, but it does a good job and MORE PEOPLE SHOULD PLAY IT. Or read the LP of it on the Let's Play Archive. Also there's time travel. My icon is from the game.
Now, Fahrenheit, also known as Indigo Prophecy in the States... similar concept in some ways, making decisions, very much story-oriented. I was about to say there's no time travel but... there is. ANYWAY the plot of the game is that you're working to solve a murder, and you play as three main characters (and a fourth minor character but that's for like one part of the game). The twist is that one of these characters, Lucas, is the guy who committed the murder - except he knows it wasn't him, he was possessed at the time and his goal is to find out who did this to him and why. Behind the story, there are a lot of pretty mundane things you can do: drink coffee, take medicine, all that stuff. There are also action sequences that are basically quicktime events too. You hold conversations with characters by use of these dialogue trees, I'm sure you know the sot of thing. The plot sort of goes a bit haywire towards the end and though there are multiple endings, they're mostly fairly similar.
Very VERY quick overviews of those games because I've gotta get to my Latin class, but if you ever get a chance to try out either game, I recommend them.
( The Whole Meme. )
Umm. Hm. I think Shadow of Destiny/Memories and Fahrenheit are two games that get overlooked a lot which I believe is a real shame.
SoM (it was Memories over here, I'm sure) was actually a fairly short, sort of adventure/puzzle game, more of a point and click kind of game than anything else. It's on the PS2 and the graphics are passable and most of the time it's a fairly simple game. But the real genius of it is in the story. It's not a game you play once. You have to replay it, several times, to really find out what the hell is going on. It has several endings and you have to see them all to really make sense of anything. It's sometimes the smallest things that make a difference and I think it's one of the few games that gets anywhere near capturing that "every decision has a consequence" sort of thing. It's not perfect, but it does a good job and MORE PEOPLE SHOULD PLAY IT. Or read the LP of it on the Let's Play Archive. Also there's time travel. My icon is from the game.
Now, Fahrenheit, also known as Indigo Prophecy in the States... similar concept in some ways, making decisions, very much story-oriented. I was about to say there's no time travel but... there is. ANYWAY the plot of the game is that you're working to solve a murder, and you play as three main characters (and a fourth minor character but that's for like one part of the game). The twist is that one of these characters, Lucas, is the guy who committed the murder - except he knows it wasn't him, he was possessed at the time and his goal is to find out who did this to him and why. Behind the story, there are a lot of pretty mundane things you can do: drink coffee, take medicine, all that stuff. There are also action sequences that are basically quicktime events too. You hold conversations with characters by use of these dialogue trees, I'm sure you know the sot of thing. The plot sort of goes a bit haywire towards the end and though there are multiple endings, they're mostly fairly similar.
Very VERY quick overviews of those games because I've gotta get to my Latin class, but if you ever get a chance to try out either game, I recommend them.
( The Whole Meme. )