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7 Games Considered

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The Walking Dead: Season 1
$24.99Narrative, Adventure, Survival HorrorPlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Windows, iOS, macOS, Linux
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Life is Strange
$19.05Adventure–
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Dragon Age: Inquisition
$19.99Action Role-Playing, Tactical Role-PlayingPlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows
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Mass Effect Andromeda
$49.99Action Role-Playing, Third-Person ShooterPlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance
$59.99Role-PlayingWindows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
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The Walking Dead: Season 1

Yoshiyuki
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A lot of replayability

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Resembling an interactive novel, the game plays out as a series of dialogue choices or decisions that result in specific actions. It's pretty interesting to replay the game many times and choose all the different ways of handling situations just to see how they play out.
Yoshiyuki
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Stellar voice acting brings the characters to life

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Voice actors deliver their lines with a lot of emotion, never feeling forced or fake. This excellent acting really helps draw you into the story and its characters. There's a lot of great chemistry between the various voice actors as well, resulting in conversations that flow well and sound ve...
Yoshiyuki
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Standalone story makes it accessible for all

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Even if you don't read the comic or watch the TV show, you can still play and enjoy this game. It's a completely standalone story. While there are some mild easter eggs for fans of the show/comic, you can still understand the game just fine without any prior knowledge of The Walking Dead.
Yoshiyuki
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Difficult decisions

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The Walking Dead requires that the player make decisions throughout, these typically will be in the form of action or conversation options. In many of these situations there is no obviously correct or best choice yet these decisions must be taken in stressful situations often giving a matter of sec...
Yoshiyuki
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Engrossing storyline

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The Walking Dead tells a genuinely gripping story which can be a testing and exhausting experience for the player. It is told through the interactions between people fighting to survive in a new world in which resources are scarce and threats can come from both the living and the undead. Perhaps t...
Yoshiyuki
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Superficial player impact

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While the game may on the face of it appear to have far reaching consequences for the decisions taken by the player. At times it can appear that these consequences cause mainly only superficial differences as the story progresses.
Yoshiyuki
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Some annoying quicktime events

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Some of the quicktime events can feel like they drag on a bit too long and require too many button/key presses, especially during extended action sequences.
Specs
Steam Rating:Very Positive
Genre:Narrative, Adventure, Survival Horror
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Life is Strange

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Great story

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Life is Strange expertly portrays a teenagers life during high school, capturing all the good and bad emotions, while also adding a supernatural twist. The main character and her issues are relatable, side characters are interesting, and the plot twists are very unexpected. The story as a whole is...
Yoshiyuki
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A well-polished experience

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Excellent voice acting, great story, smooth lighting, detailed object/level design, extensive number of people and objects to interact with, and even amazing music. Everything about the game makes it very enjoyable to play.
Yoshiyuki
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Choice based gameplay with a twist

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Your character can rewind time, so you can undo any recent choice or action, allowing you to try out different ones. This feels really awesome since in most games you'd have to reload your save or replay through entire sections just to view the other choices.
Yoshiyuki
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Some audio sync issues

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In addition to poorly done lip syncing, character voice lines sometimes overlap as well. You might not understand what's being said unless you turn on the subtitles. It can be really annoying at times, even with subtitles.
Yoshiyuki
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Choices feel a little lacking

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While there are many choices in Life is Strange, most of them have no long term impact on the story. The only noticeable changes are the dialogue lines and what scenes you get. While this adds some nuances to your journey, the destination is ultimately the same.
Specs
Genre:Adventure
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Dragon Age: Inquisition

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You get to feel like a commander in combat and in the story

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As the Inquisitor, you're the focal point of a huge movement to wage an army against the main villain. You're in charge of a ton of things: fortifying your base of operations, scouting for intel and resources, crafting gear, managing your companions in battle, picking which story decisions...
Yoshiyuki
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The areas you discover are huge

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The areas in Dragon Age: Inquisition are simply monstrous. The world is divided into separate maps that are each gigantic worlds on their own. From the sprawling hills and valleys in the Hinterlands to the expansive snowy ruins of Emprise du Lion, every level has tons of outposts, environmental cha...
Yoshiyuki
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Building relationships with companions is enjoyable

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There are a few neat ways you can build relationships with your party members and non-playable war advisers. These aren't limited to just romance options -- you can spend time with characters to become better friends with them, too. Improving your approval rating with characters comes down to...
Yoshiyuki
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Tons of content

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There's lots of content in Dragon Age: Inquisition that can keep you playing for a long time. The game offers a very long main story, with even more side quests and hidden areas that can take many hours to complete. The main story has plenty of branching decisions that affect how your playthrou...
Yoshiyuki
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Lots of interesting characters and lore

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The characters in Dragon Age: Inquisition are great, with intriguing backstories that delve into the game's lore. Early on, you meet a couple of once-high-ranking members of the Templar Order, like Cullen, who isn't a playable character, but serves as your military adviser instead. He pre...
Yoshiyuki
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Overwhelming amount to do at start of game

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After the prologue, you arrive to the Hinterlands: a massive level with way too much to explore. Even though it's great that the open world is so big, you pretty much get dropped off in the Hinterlands without enough direction or guidance. The game just tells you to look around and find the ne...
Yoshiyuki
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Slow combat animations

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The combat animations can often be really slow. This causes problems, like when an attack's animation takes too long to finish, and you're left second guessing whether or not the attack will go off at all. You have to wait for the animations to play out, which can be troublesome if your aim...
Yoshiyuki
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Forgettable multiplayer riddled with awful microtransactions

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It's easy to forget that the multiplayer in this game exists. The developers basically tacked it on, taking the same single-player combat and changing it to horde mode for a multiplayer environment. It's the same type of combat over and over again with no meaningful progression. The microtr...
Yoshiyuki
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Stiff and repetitive character animations during cutscenes

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Character animations are incredibly stiff in ways that look robotic. During cutscenes, you'll see the same types of movements over and over, like a character shifting their waist back and bobbing their head to seem important or defiant, or moving their head down with their words to make a poin...
Yoshiyuki
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Generic villain drags the story down

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The main villain, Corypheus, is so bland and unremarkable that he worsens the entire story. He's a darkspawn, a type of demon enemy in the Dragon Age lore, hell-bent on bringing ruin to the world for reasons that aren't all that compelling. He doesn't have much of a personality beyond h...
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Genre:Action Role-Playing, Tactical Role-Playing
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Mass Effect Andromeda

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You can change the way your character works on the fly

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In Mass Effect Andromeda, the class system is incredibly open, and classes can be swapped at any time, even in the middle of combat. Essentially, you can go from being a battle-hardened front line soldier to a crafty engineer, or even to an infiltrator that's capable of invisibility. This will...
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Combat is very fast paced

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The combat in previous entries of Mass Effect has been based on getting behind cover and having good aim. That aspect still exists in Andromeda, but thanks to the new jump jet, things are much faster and much more fun. The jump jet allows you to vault over obstacles or make quick dashes while runni...
Yoshiyuki
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Exploration is quite fun

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Nearly every planet in Andromeda is unique from the others. There's different terrain and environments to check out, new hazards to watch out for, and a plethora of missions to complete on every planet.
Yoshiyuki
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Fun multiplayer

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Mass Effect Andromeda's fast-paced combat from single-player works well with the team-based multiplayer matches, where up to four players cooperate to complete hacking or target objectives while fighting back against waves of enemies. Maps are densely packed with obstacles and winding rooms to...
Yoshiyuki
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Poor face textures and animations

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Widely mocked and ridiculed near Andromeda's release, the facial animations, eye movement and tracking, and general skin textures are still sub-par, even after patches meant to fix these issues. Characters look unnatural and downright ugly at times, with the female Ryder inspiring dozens of cri...
Yoshiyuki
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No single-player DLC

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There will not be any single-player downloadable content for Mass Effect: Andromeda. This is especially disappointing because, by the end of the game, the writers clearly intended to give more context through DLC about certain galactic races who were absent from the original story. With the news th...
Yoshiyuki
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Sub-par storytelling

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MEA's writing is very inconsistent throughout the game. Sometimes the dialogue is really poor, having lines like "my face is tired". Other times characters forget important information such as the length of their trip to the Andromeda Galaxy, showing surprise at things that should be...
Specs
Genre:Action Role-Playing, Third-Person Shooter
Co-Op:4 Player Online
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance

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NPCs react differently to you under certain circumstances

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With the many organic and grounded systems in Kingdom Come: Deliverance that mirror real life, how you present yourself to the world has an impact on how people react to you. If you haven't bathed in a few days and you smell badly, some female NPCs might find your manly odor attractive, while o...
Yoshiyuki
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Vastly different ways to play the game

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Depending on which skills you choose to master, your playthrough can be incredibly different from other players who chose to specialize in other abilities instead. There isn't much of a limit to how strong or proficient you can become in any one specialty, giving you the opportunity to be the b...
Yoshiyuki
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Rising up in society from a peasant is a unique experience

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Kingdom Come: Deliverance puts you in the shoes of an unremarkable commoner named Henry with few skills or specialties, giving you the opportunity to enrich his life and abilities however you see fit. You don't start off as a powerful fighter like in so many other games, and you don't even...
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You learn and level up skills in organic, realistic ways

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Instead of leveling up in traditional ways with the usual experience points, Kingdom Come: Deliverance has a much more organic approach to the ways you can grow your character. Playing as the protagonist Henry, you'll need to practice your skills in areas such as sword play, fist fighting, alch...
Yoshiyuki
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Optimization issues on consoles and lower-end PCs

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For those playing on a launch PlayStation 4 or Xbox One, as well as an older PC, you might have issues with the game's framerate. Framerate drops are common throughout the game, possibly ruining your experience from time to time. If you're on PlayStation 4 Pro or Xbox One X, or you have a m...
Yoshiyuki
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Brutal learning curve at the beginning of the game

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Since you start the game at rock bottom as a peasant, you have to learn your skills the hard way, including with combat. You'll have to earn your skills by learning as you go along, but because you start with nothing, it's all too easy to fail at even the most basic encounters you come acro...
Yoshiyuki
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The game feels unpolished overall with smaller bugs and story pacing issues

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Despite Kingdom Come: Deliverance's immersive and innovative systems, there are a bunch of other, smaller bugs throughout the game, as well as some pacing issues that ruin the flow of the gameplay. You're likely to come across invisible walls in places such as stairs that you have to jump o...
Yoshiyuki
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Game-breaking bugs can corrupt your save file

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The game is filled with bugs that could potentially cost you hours of playtime. Your save file could get corrupted, forcing you to start the game over from scratch. It's incredibly frustrating and has been an ongoing problem since release, keeping quite a few players from progressing. Thankfull...
Specs
Steam Rating:Mixed
Genre:Role-Playing
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Life is Strange: Before the Storm

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Chloe is more likable this time

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In the first Life is Strange, many players complained that Chloe was insufferable and selfish as Max's best friend, complaining in order to have more of her time when she might not have deserved it. This time around, watching the events of Before the Storm unfold from Chloe's eyes is enjoya...
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Great soundtrack

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Daughter, the indie folk band from England, worked on the tracks for Before the Storm, pulling together many of the game's great moments with thoughtful acoustic tunes and moody piano tracks. The more upbeat, hopeful tracks fit in incredibly well with Chloe's adventurous scenes with Rachel,...
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Improved writing over the first game

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The original Life is Strange suffered from some instances of awkward lines that sounded like a middle-aged adult trying to emulate how teenagers speak; thankfully, Before the Storm has a much clearer, down-to-earth script that helps the characters sound more authentic and real. Rachel's use of...
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Choices have consequences

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Much like in the first game, Before the Storm features several choices throughout the game that have an impact on future plot points across the three episodes. How these choices end up impacting the ending are debatable, but there are still a myriad of choices that change the outcome of a single pl...
Yoshiyuki
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Limited exploration

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With much of the focus on the storytelling, it's still unfortunate that Chloe can't leave the designated story areas without turning around and repeating the same line about how she's supposed to focus on her objective. The limited areas to walk around in are understandable, yet disappo...
Yoshiyuki
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Third episode falls flat in some areas

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Life is Strange: Before the Storm is an all-around stand-out title, with the first and second episodes building up to an impactful third installment that feels lacking in certain aspects. Without getting into spoilers, there are a few plot holes that aren't wrapped up by the end, and much of t...
Specs
Steam Rating:Very Positive
Genre:Adventure, Narrative
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The Walking Dead: Season 2

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Standlone story makes it accessible for all

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Even if you don't read the comic or watch the TV show, you can still play and enjoy this game. It's a completely standalone story. While there are some mild easter eggs for fans of the show/comic, you can still understand the game just fine without any prior knowledge of The Walking Dead.
Yoshiyuki
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Stellar voice acting brings the characters to life

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Voice actors deliver their lines with a lot of emotion, never feeling forced or fake. This excellent acting really helps draw you into the story and its characters. There's a lot of great chemistry between the various voice actors as well, resulting in conversations that flow well and sound ve...
Yoshiyuki
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A huge amount of replayability

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Resembling an interactive novel, TWD: S2 plays out as a series of dialogue choices or decisions that result in specific actions. It's pretty interesting to replay the game many times and choose all the different ways of handling situations just to see how they play out.
Yoshiyuki
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Choice of protagonist increases emotional impact

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Viewing the story through the eyes of Clementine, a young child from the first season, is an interesting choice and makes some of the decisions you have to make even more heartbreaking. Not only is she growing up, she is growing up in the midst of a brutal zombie apocalypse where survival is rough,...
Yoshiyuki
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Dynamic and impactful decisions

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Surviving in the midst of a zombie apocalypse is hard, and oftentimes decisions will require you to make heart-wrenching choices to progress the story. In most cases, there are no easy or pleasant solutions to most of the scenarios the story places you in. However every choice you make, be it throu...
Yoshiyuki
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Gripping and emotional story

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TWD: Season 2 continues the story about the struggle to survive during a brutal zombie apocalypse. You play as Clementine, a young girl from the first season, who is growing up in a cruel world. Food and resources are scarce, and people will do whatever they feel they must do to survive. Not only a...
Yoshiyuki
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May distress some people

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There is a lot of violence, gore, and very disturbing situations. Some people may not react well to some of the scenes. Despite the fact that the main character in this game is a young girl, this is a game for adults.
Yoshiyuki
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Some obnoxious quicktime events

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While this game is almost fully story based, there are still some fairly long and annoying quicktime events during action sequences. There are a few in particular that feel like they drag on a bit too long, and if you hit the wrong key/button at any point, you'll have to restart the event.
Specs
Genre:Adventure, Narrative, Survival Horror
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