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[yurinka]

A lesbian can't be a likeable character?

Yes, I like Ellie from TLOU. I also like other LGBT characters, as could be Poison or Juri from Street Fighter.

The ones in this trailer and in most recent games aren't. Probably because devs (and/or their DEI censorship team) make an extra efford to purposely design them in a way they aren't appealing to white heterosexual males.

And well, then since most customers of certain genres happen to be white heterosexual games many of these games get Concorded due to FAFO/'go woke, go broke'.

 

[NahaNago]

Looks nice but not for me, most likely. I might play it one day just because I think it looks really pretty.

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I watched the trailer before I saw the developer, and then it made sense.

This would be completely laughable if they weren't so sincere about it. Now it's just kind of sad. But I'm still going to laugh at them.

 

[Agent_4Seven]

So.... I'm about halfway through the first tape. Goodamn the game looks a-fuckin'-mazin'! An absolute giant leap in visual quality in comparison to LIS games and even the last one which is not made by Don't Nod. The lighting, rendering of characters, cloth, various surfaces, different materials, modeling of everything etc. is out-fuckin'-standing most of the time (there's some blurry textures here and there, but nothing major). It's just mind-blowing how the game looks. The biggest issue visually though is not so great facial animations at times and they could've been a lot better tbh.

Spoiler

Now, narratively... Idk if just two parts will be enough to tell the whole story and develop characters well at the same time. From what I've seen so far, I like the characters and the way they're written, but it's definitely not going to be 26hr (at least that's how long it took for me to finish the first Life is Strange with no rush whatsoever) type of experience in terms of playtime, so Idk if it's possible to develop character just as good in Lost Records, which is according to Don't Nod has 2 times less playtime incl second part which'll be released in April. Maybe I'm wrong and everything will turn out to be great but.... I guess we just have to wait and see.

Gameplay-wise I can see that someone may not like to shoot everything with the camera and then edit and finish various tapes, but the plus side is that Swann has commentary for each tape you make so there's that as well. You can literally shoot whatever in the game and then try and make something great out of all the footage to make it look great, It's kinda like way more interactive diary from LIS which you literally create yourself over the course of the game, catch various evenst on camera and it's not drawings and text, it's video tapes you can watch. I mean, it's really cool and I like what they did here, but it's not for everyone and especially not for those who don't even know what VHS tapes are and haven't seen a video tape player in their lives.

There's bond levels for each character in the game and based on what you said and did, it might go up or down and it'll affect which dialogue options you can choose during conversations. I'm yet to see the big impact of all the decisions I made so far other than dialogue options, but I highly doubt that they're even in the first part of the game so, we'll see about that when the second part will be released. Anyway, I really like and even love what they did so far but idk if it's going to have a great second part to develop characters more and finish the story on a really high note cuz it's just 10-12 hours of total playtime, fingers crossed though cuz Idk how the story will end, but I'd love to see a second game or even more episodes similar to Before the Storm and what this game did for the first Life is Strange, even though it's not Don't Node made it.

 

[Dorfdad]

So I bought this game cause I thought it might be a cool game to stream, but man the first like 2 hours have been such a slow boring burn. Does it pick up at like all!? I'm at the coffee shop talking to the one girl over drinks. And spent 15 minutes looking for guitar picks!

 

[drotahorror]

Hopefully the 10 people this appeals to is enough of an audience to keep Dont Nod afloat.

Who am I kidding, I hope they crash and burn.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Wow this looks like a mega bomb.

Out of curiosity I checked Life is Strange 2, that game hit over 450,000 concurrent players. What the heck happened?

 

[dgrdsv]

What the heck happened?

Mediocre reviews, half of game being available, and LIS2 came after the huge success of LIS1 while this one is a new IP.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

So I bought this game cause I thought it might be a cool game to stream, but man the first like 2 hours have been such a slow boring burn. Does it pick up at like all!? I'm at the coffee shop talking to the one girl over drinks. And spent 15 minutes looking for guitar picks!

There's another scene afterward where you go into the woods with the girls to film a music video. Once this scene concludes, something happens, and the game starts to pick up.

 

[Thief1987]

Wow this looks like a mega bomb.

Out of curiosity I checked Life is Strange 2, that game hit over 450,000 concurrent players.

Please

 

[BbMajor7th]

DONTNOD's dialogue has always been a deal breaker for me. The trailer suggests more of the same: a middle-class maelstrom of reactionary self-referential earnestness mixed with nostalgia, juvenilia and aren't-we-edgy cursing. I'll pass.

 

[Flabagast]

So.... I'm about halfway through the first tape. Goodamn the game looks a-fuckin'-mazin'! An absolute giant leap in visual quality in comparison to LIS games and even the last one which is not made by Don't Nod. The lighting, rendering of characters, cloth, various surfaces, different materials, modeling of everything etc. is out-fuckin'-standing most of the time (there's some blurry textures here and there, but nothing major). It's just mind-blowing how the game looks. The biggest issue visually though is not so great facial animations at times and they could've been a lot better tbh.

Spoiler

Now, narratively... Idk if just two parts will be enough to tell the whole story and develop characters well at the same time. From what I've seen so far, I like the characters and the way they're written, but it's definitely not going to be 26hr (at least that's how long it took for me to finish the first Life is Strange with no rush whatsoever) type of experience in terms of playtime, so Idk if it's possible to develop character just as good in Lost Records, which is according to Don't Nod has 2 times less playtime incl second part which'll be released in April. Maybe I'm wrong and everything will turn out to be great but.... I guess we just have to wait and see.

Gameplay-wise I can see that someone may not like to shoot everything with the camera and then edit and finish various tapes, but the plus side is that Swann has commentary for each tape you make so there's that as well. You can literally shoot whatever in the game and then try and make something great out of all the footage to make it look great, It's kinda like way more interactive diary from LIS which you literally create yourself over the course of the game, catch various evenst on camera and it's not drawings and text, it's video tapes you can watch. I mean, it's really cool and I like what they did here, but it's not for everyone and especially not for those who don't even know what VHS tapes are and haven't seen a video tape player in their lives.

There's bond levels for each character in the game and based on what you said and did, it might go up or down and it'll affect which dialogue options you can choose during conversations. I'm yet to see the big impact of all the decisions I made so far other than dialogue options, but I highly doubt that they're even in the first part of the game so, we'll see about that when the second part will be released. Anyway, I really like and even love what they did so far but idk if it's going to have a great second part to develop characters more and finish the story on a really high note cuz it's just 10-12 hours of total playtime, fingers crossed though cuz Idk how the story will end, but I'd love to see a second game or even more episodes similar to Before the Storm and what this game did for the first Life is Strange, even though it's not Don't Node made it.

Thanks for the detailed write up. Did not have time to dive too much into it but the game is indeed drop dead gorgeous. Stellar art direction.

Not sure about the cam corder though, will have to see if it does not detract from the game too much.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

It's going into PS+ or is now, so many some players on console? ha

 

[captainnapalm]

The main character is built like a brick shithouse. Even most fat women have at least some shape to them. Who is this meant to appeal to - I don't think men or women want to play as someone like that.

 

[Ribi]

Why are all these lesbain games on Playstation?

 

[Agent_4Seven]

Wow this looks like a mega bomb. What the heck happened?

1) It's free for PS Plus members
2) Completely New IP
3) Only half of the game is available
4) (No offence but) Too many stupid people around who hate or don't like the game just because of the characters, the way the look etc.
5) Too many games for people to play (they should've released the full game during summer)
6) Not for everyone not only cuz of the theme and full female cast, but also cuz of the time period many people don't know shit about and so they don't care
7) LIS wasn't all that good after the first two games (I don't mean LIS2), so there's that as well and Lost Records was definitely made for LIS fans first and foremost

But the game has great rating on Steam so people who bought and played it, loved the game, even if it's not yet finished. I wonder if it was worth it to go for PS Plus and how much of the game's budget was covered by this deal alone

Thanks for the detailed write up. Did not have time to dive too much into it but the game is indeed drop dead gorgeous. Stellar art direction.

No problemo.

Not sure about the cam corder though, will have to see if it does not detract from the game too much.

Well, it's not for everyone BUT you'll get lots of interactions with characters, character development and +s to bond levels by doing this which you can't get otherwise. So yeah, it's not just for filming stuff and edit it later which is great.

 

[phant0m]

Wow this looks like a mega bomb.

Out of curiosity I checked Life is Strange 2, that game hit over 450,000 concurrent players. What the heck happened?

Does GAF love anything more than using Steam player counts to shit on games?

Can we please find a new fucking slant?

These types of games always have bigger playerbase on console. Plus it's free on PS+. Plus it's episodic and a lot of people prefer to wait until it's "done" to buy.

 

[solidus12]

I started playing and so far I like it way more than Life Is Strange Double Exposure.

 

[drotahorror]

Twas a slight failure. See ya later Don't Nod along with the rest of the shithole companies that tried to push agendas. RIP to the good companies still wanting to make real games.

 

[mckmas8808]

The main character is built like a brick shithouse. Even most fat women have at least some shape to them. Who is this meant to appeal to - I don't think men or women want to play as someone like that.

You couldn't be more wrong here.

 

[Seomel]

I beat it since it was on ps+. Honestly it was ok, but it took a while to get going, a lot of just ...nothing to establish relationships. Got more interesting near end of ep1. Eill check out ep2 too. I havent played any dontnod game since Before Storm really. Skipped lis2 and true colours. Oh i also just remember lis3 came out already? I liked max but in new trailers whole game looked whatever

 

[balls of snow]

Kinda of a slog but it all depends on how tape 2 shakes out. Nora is hot af in her 40's like godam.

 

[Vampire On Titus]

veeeeeeeerrrrry slow paced, I don't dislike the game so far but they're banking a lot on episode 2's payoff so I hope it works out. Also, I don't think the "dynamic dialogue happening while you explore" system was implemented fantastically. I see what they're going for but it plays out awkwardly about half of the time. I'm not convinced it's worth it vs. just walking up to a character and having a scripted dialogue tree. The game's biggest strength is DontNod's ability to create believably lived-in, detail rich, game environments. It's a joy to pour over every detail of them. The filming mechanic plays into this beautifully.

I've been very up and down on DontNod's narrative adventure game output (I haven't played their ARPG games, Vampyr and Banishers). Life is Strange is an all-time favorite of mine, I hate Life is Strange 2, I thought Tell Me Why was good, and Twin Mirror was complete trash. So far I liked Part One but I'm also the type of player that looks at every hotspot in every adventure game I play. So the vibes and immersion are good, but the real make or break is where the plot is headed. We'll see in part 2.

 

[balls of snow]

veeeeeeeerrrrry slow paced, I don't dislike the game so far but they're banking a lot on episode 2's payoff so I hope it works out. Also, I don't think the "dynamic dialogue happening while you explore" system was implemented fantastically. I see what they're going for but it plays out awkwardly about half of the time. I'm not convinced it's worth it vs. just walking up to a character and having a scripted dialogue tree. The game's biggest strength is DontNod's ability to create believably lived-in, detail rich, game environments. It's a joy to pour over every detail of them. The filming mechanic plays into this beautifully.

I've been very up and down on DontNod's narrative adventure game output (I haven't played their ARPG games, Vampyr and Banishers). Life is Strange is an all-time favorite of mine, I hate Life is Strange 2, I thought Tell Me Why was good, and Twin Mirror was complete trash. So far I liked Part One but I'm also the type of player that looks at every hotspot in every adventure game I play. So the vibes and immersion are good, but the real make or break is where the plot is headed. We'll see in part 2.

Took me a week of playing. Half an hour sessions was all I could take with the whole minimal plot just vibes feel of the game but I finally got to the point of the story. And its at the very end of the game. They could have cut like an entire chapter or 2 of 'summer vibes' and smash in part 2 instead of doing the episodic thing.

 

[RedC]

I finished it, and it was decent. However, whatever supernatural hook that's being teased the whole time playing will unsatisfyingly stay in the background.

 

[ududy]

A lesbian can't be a likeable character?

Wrong question. It's "A whiny teenager obsessed with her edgy-but-sensitive image can't be a likeable character?"

Personally, I'm really tired of playing teenagers and "young adults" who would have been considered, at best, teenagers a few decades ago.

 

[Skifi28]

It took forever to get to the supernatural part and once it did the episode ended abrupty without even a hint of what is going on. It could have been decent, but the execution was quite bad and not for woke reasons. Maybe the second episode will deliver on the promise, but I seriously doubt it.

 

[adamsapple]

Will wait for both episodes to come out to play it together.

 

[Roberts]

Wrong question. It's "A whiny teenager obsessed with her edgy-but-sensitive image can't be a likeable character?"

Personally, I'm really tired of playing teenagers and "young adults" who would have been considered, at best, teenagers a few decades ago.

Nobody forces you to play those games.

 

[CSJ]

I

Will wait for both episodes to come out to play it together.

Same here, I do think these episodic releases are a mistake.
I have enjoyed all the Dontnod and Deck Nine games so far, I still need to pick up LIS: Double Exposure too.

 

[Loboxxx]

It has everything that has saturated me to unimaginable limits thanks to the capitalist entertainment industry... 80/90s movie-like setting, hyperbolic diversity, purple tones, cinematic adventure, etc. Enough, I need a break from this crap.

 

[ududy]

Nobody forces you to play those game

My point is that there's a tendency to avoid writing mature, experienced characters. RDR 2's Arthur Morgan is one of the exceptions to the rule of a creative industry that's over ingratiating towards the childish demographic.

 

[Certinty]

Not sure what I think on this one.

I know it's just half the game but they really should have ended it on more than what they did.

Everything just felt so slow. Yes the story is interesting and the characters are done well but it really didn't get anywhere.

Let's see what the second half of the game is like but so far I expected more.

On a technical note, game looks great though. Just a shame the lip syncing is horrendous and some of the voice acting is questionable.

 

[MrRibeye]

They have my respect for not chasing after money, but instead developing characters and a story they believe in. Gotta give 'em credit for that. I'll never in a million years play this though.

 

[Hudo]

What Dontnod are doing just ain't for me.

 

[Hideous Snake]

Zero hype. Used to like LiS and looked forward to their new games but they can fuck off right now with their tryhard forced woke garbage.

Enjoy your episodic downfall, wankers.

 

[Certinty]

Anyone played the second part yet?

Hopefully better than the first.

 

[adamsapple]

Noticed the PS5 updating and downloading the second part today. No fuckin' idea when I'll get a chance to play it, but at least it's complete now.

The Nextlander guys were pretty down on the game's narrative ...so I'm not expecting much.

 

[RedC]

Noticed the PS5 updating and downloading the second part today. No fuckin' idea when I'll get a chance to play it, but at least it's complete now.

The Nextlander guys were pretty down on the game's narrative ...so I'm not expecting much.

Reinstalling now on my Xbox.

 

[vodka-bull]

I'll wait for a 100% completion guide to be released before I play it. After True Colors I really don't want to play through another dontnod game twice. Unskippable dialogue and cutscenes make a second playthrough a drag.

 

[cash_longfellow]

Shit sucks, because DontNod nodded the F off about 2 years ago. True Colors was the nail in the coffin for me. Forced inclusion at its finest. This was just the final nail.