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LiS was a one hit wonder and this was the final nail in the coffin..
And for the record, i played it on PS4
one more thing better than TC is you can reply SMS
Essentially it's four days in the life of Steph at different points in her year in Haven running the radio station/record store with a small 'epilogue' of Alex's arrival in the first chapter of the main game.
As a bit of character exploration of Steph, it's good. Steph is likeable and easy to emphasise with, her struggles and isolation as the only lesbian in a small town and the damage done to her by the fallout of the events of Max's choice in LiS. (I chose my choice from LiS and the destruction of Arcadia Bay brought about personal loss for Steph who grew up there.)
As a game however, it's pretty bad. You're given a generic list of tasks to perform each day as a DJ (really just reading ad copies and answering call-ins as a 'psychic') and chores to do in the record store. A few bits of more social interactions such as a dating app, GMing a game for Mikey, play Foosball, the typical reading through SMS history with a small handful of reply options and working on Steph's new song.
The 'game' is more an excuse to have Steph walk around and occasionally interact with something and make a LiS-style comment or have some memory (purely auditory) about some part of her life. There's a handful of choices that have no real impact, mostly making a mistake in reading an ad copy or the advice you give callers.
There's no real game here, nor a story in any appreciable form. It's a decent character study that feels like it could have been done more justice in another form.
It feels like plenty of the slower moments from previous LiS games where you're exploring an empty room, interacting with stuff and scanning through texts and your diary, while waiting for the next story beat. Repeated four times. And that's the entire 'game'.
This definitely isn't for everybody, I feel like people that preferred Ryan in the main game for example probably aren't getting much out of the DLC, but for me almost 4 hours worth of content of one of my favorite characters in the series is way more than what I expected.
I actually thought it was a bit too long and repetitive, and the "season" theme wasn't really that well pulled off.
Overall, though, I loved fooling around with Steph getting to know her a little bit better, and getting some small insights into the aftermath of LiS1. The music was also generally good.
As for the summer episode, the one about Pride, I didn't mind it for the most part because Steph is gay and it fits with her character to be political in that way. However, I disliked the audio of the speech at the parade. That was unnecessarily preachy, and it felt shoehorned in there.
And thats exactly what i wanted.
I just finished and it was way more intimate than I was expecting, for the good and for the not so good.
I thought I would be walking down the main road again with a character with no powers and who already knows everybody, but instead it's a journey into Steph's mind and how she deals with what happens 5 years ago in Arcadia Bay, which is really interesting.
That was a call, a firewatch talking about his loliness that completely relate to the experience of playing the DLC itself. In some moments it does really look like I'm playing Firewatch again, because of the lonely atmosphere that is gave to you to enjoy, in my opinion.
Really good to see Mikey agaiin and all those flashbacks.
For me it seems that the franchise will always use somehow the LiS1 as a foundation, always somewhere, always influencing the universe, but the characters are alwyas moving on and not backwards, like life itself. So we're getting more and more far away from Arcadia Bay, which is good for the franchise to find itself a space to create other big event and grow up as a beloved collection of narrative experiences.