Great mechanics, less than stellar storytelling

[lepinkainen]

The mechanics and gameplay seemed to hold a lot of promise, but the writing and story as they currently were really held everything back. I don't think I could suffer through the game without muting the audio and being able to skip the dialogue and... that would be kind of a bummer in a game like this, where there's clearly quite a bit of effort been put into that side of things.

[eMpire (current nXt champion)]

Meh, superliminal had that issue yet I still found it fun. Sometimes all you need is one good concept to make a decent $15 game.

[protëin]

Originally posted by eMpire (current nXt champion):

Meh, superliminal had that issue yet I still found it fun. Sometimes all you need is one good concept to make a decent $15 game.

Haven't heard any complaints about the story with Superliminal, here it's a lot of people's first reaction.

It's obviously not a deal breaker, but it is disheartening when it's something that could be easily fixed by hiring a (better) writer. It gives the feeling like they didn't care that much about the finished game, even if we know they did.

[Greg]

Yes, I don't answer the phone after all the initial narration.

[Gargaj]

On the note of writing... is it just me or the character "Chi Leung" gets renamed to "Ah Leung" halfway into the game and noone seems to address it? Or am I missing something here?

[Ben Kenobi]

Originally posted by Gargaj:

On the note of writing... is it just me or the character "Chi Leung" gets renamed to "Ah Leung" halfway into the game and noone seems to address it? Or am I missing something here?

I assumed I just missed a phonecall or something, I stopped answering after a bit. Shortly afterwards, I muted speech and turned off subtitles. The game after that was so peaceful, just doin puzzles and petting quiet cat.

This game had storytelling that reminded me of Raft, when you're in towns exploring. Some person narrating about Josh doing this, and that Catherine isn't very good friends with him. But Alex is making progress on his research, as long as Alex and Ophelia make it home tonight.

Like what the fuu are you talking about, I don't care about any of these people, I'm just tryin to do some damn puzzles