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[rkofan87]

They put out a visual novel last year. Harmony. I haven't played it yet but I picked it up. Its on the backlog list.

i am looking forward to last record i think that is the name of it?

 

[Madflavor]

I had no idea the new game even came out. It feels like it’s flown under the radar. Was it that bad?

 

[ResurrectedContrarian]

I've always despised this franchise, I don't get the idea that there were ever good entries.

I probably resent it mainly because my wife and I play a lot of narrative & artistic games together, since she enjoys those -- and this series will never stop getting recommended on every storefront if you play anything even remotely narrative. But I've watched "first hour of gameplay" videos and plenty of clips of these games since they first started, and they've looked consistently mind numbing since the first entry; I can't suffer even one scene of the dialogue in any of them.

This is the kind of "narrative" game I hate. TO be even more honest, I'd even include the games from Quantic Dream, written like a very bad tv show but hopes to skate by on being a quasi-game at the same time.

 

[poodaddy]

Game is called Double Exposure.

Developer exposes layoffs a second time this year.

Fun fact: I keep my phone on such low brightness that I thought this meme was just a disembodied floating head, and it was far funnier for it. Then I stepped into the kitchen, where my wife likes the room to be lit like the surface of the sun, and auto brightness kicked up and I saw a shirt. Immense disappointment.

The more ya know.

 

[Punished Miku]

i am looking forward to last record i think that is the name of it?

Yeah Last Reverie or something.

 

[Duchess]

I had no idea the new game even came out. It feels like it’s flown under the radar. Was it that bad?

It's a "Fair" on OpenCritic:

Life is Strange: Double Exposure Reviews

Life is Strange: Double Exposure is rated 'Fair' after being reviewed by 112 critics, with an overall average score of 71. It's ranked in the bottom 48% of games and recommended by 53% of...

opencritic.com

I think the general consensus is that it's a good game, but neither a great one nor a necessary sequel.

First game was absolutely amazing - great characters, great story, great soundtrack. Absolute emotional roller coaster. They caught lightning in a bottle with that game, a feat they've never been able to replicate.

 

[Harlock]

Life is rough.

 

[xrnzaaas]

The truth is only LiS1 was good, it was a combination of a good story leading to the killer reveal, interesting superpower with that memorable alternative timeline scene and sweet indie soundtrack. Both Dontnod and Deck Nine weren't able to copy that formula and it didn't help they also started to focus on injecting more woke stuff.

 

[GymWolf]

 

[rkofan87]

i am looking forward to last record i think that is the name of it?

i was right that is the name.

 

[SHA]

Go woke go broke

It took me awhile to understand that phrase.

 

[SHA]

Not an IP that needed spinning into a five- or six-game franchise. Seems like these days publishers won't abandon a once-successful IP until it's delivering layoff-level failures.

Sad part is that DONTNOD never surpassed it as a developer, so it's not like you could say 'new IP' is the answer either.

That doesn't make the product genuine, I really hate these practices.