Ah, this is awesome. Being a so-called walking simulator, What Remains of Edith Finch is sure to split opinion, but first impressions don't get much better than this. You play as the titular teenager who's returned to her family home for reasons not entirely known. The twist is that the house is a do-it-yourself castle composed of a hodge-podge of makeshift turrets.
The game's all about exploring the Finch family-tree, each mini-story involving a death sequence that explains how your ancestors reached their untimely demise. And the degrees of whimsy on display here make it the ultimate Sammy Game™; this author's played a little beyond the first 15 minutes now, and it's just absolutely brilliant.
Graham will have a review for you soon.
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omg im too keen to get home tonight and fire it up (after firing up some other things ) Unfinished swan was a game I will remember till my grave
Is it better than Dragon Quest Heroes II though?
I want to wait for pushsquare review but after seeing polygon and gamespot both give this a 9 and the first 17 minutes of gameplay from ign video, I bought it while it still discounted.
It was alright.. It was missing something though, it was definitely on the short side. I liked it, but was it worth the €20? In my opinion; No.
I could understand why a title like this would block streaming. Why buy it, when actual gameplay is minimal (have read several reviews and struggled to find more than a paragraph dedicated to this) and watching a complete let's play for free offers you the same experience.
@ShogunRok Hi, I haven't played either game but I can confirm that they are both better and worse than each other simultaneously. Hope this helps.
I want to like these kinds of titles but try as I might, I just run out of steam before ever reaching the end.
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture for example, was enjoyable in spells, but the pace was so monotonous that I literally fell asleep pushing 'up' on my controller.
Nope, not for me. Been burned before and I'm all out of aftersun. I'm a narrative man, but without gameplay to go with it I just find it dull. Plus I find that how good a game's story is is hugely oversold. We tend to laud games with stories that have had even a smidgen of effort put into them, but there's a world of difference between good story in a game and good story in a film/TV show/book. It's only the interactivity of games that can elevate them to the level of more traditional formats. TLoU and Uncharted are great examples of this. I love both and enjoy the characters, but take away the gameplay and there's really nothing special about them. That's why neither will work if they ever do become films - at best they'll be mediocre adventure flicks.
@Deadcow Surprised you didn't like Gone Home but liked those other two. I think Gone Home is the best of this kind of genre.
@Deadcow Yeah, that's fair. Like you say, the story is absolutely essential, so if it doesn't hook you, then you're not going to get much else out of the experience.
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