@ralphdibny the touch controls work better in the app. I found it a bit hit and miss on the touchpad sometimes. But fundamentally they work in the exact same way.
@phil_j hmm well hopefully I can give it a go today, if not tomorrow. I'm definitely curious about this game, we've come a long way since night trap!
@nessisonett Christ! I really Wana try flight simulator but I definitely don't have a computer that's good enough to run it. Hopefully it comes to Xbox one but somehow I think they're going to save it for series X
Just played through Erica, bit of a mixed bag for me tbh. The sets, direction, acting and execution of the gameplay including the seamless blend between the controls and the on screen action were all brilliant. Unfortunately I just found the story really uninteresting, I'm not sure why but it didn't really grab me. It's weird, it's kind of like a good game/film just made bad by its story.
That being said, I am interested in what happens on the alternate pathways so I'd love to hear what other people did. Personally I checked on Toby, got drunk with Toby, questioned basically everything, I trusted the cop but unfortunately got him killed. I was resistant to the killer woman but I did go with her and obviously something was up at Delphi and I wasn't being given the full story so I decided to kill that bald doctor dude even though I said I wouldn't. Oh yeah and I burned the place down.
Did anyone actually work out what was going on there?
As for phone/controller, my screen protector is so messed up I daresay I'd have better luck trying to open a lighter on the DS4 touch pad but at least my phone gave me a bigger canvas to draw willies any time I had to clear some dirt or mist in the game!
The video was so in sync in the interactive moments it almost seemed like it was CGI rather than film in places. Definitely a cool execution of these ideas! I doubt I'll play through it again though to find out what happens on alternate paths but hopefully some of you will share your stories and fill in the gaps!
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Dual purpose, you can use them for transporting doughnuts as well. It's like the multi tool of the bag world. Can even place one over your head when you need a last second disguise.
@ralphdibny That's fairly close to what I did. I made some fragrances with Hannah instead of getting drunk with Tobi, but the rest of it is about the same. Similarly to you, I begrudgingly went with the killer woman, shoot the bald doctor dude, and burnt the whole place down. I did mess up when trying to save someone near the end though.
So I'm also not too sure what was going on.
My plan is to play through the game once more over the weekend, and make the complete opposite choices to my first playthrough. After that, not sure if I'll do any more or not.
@LieutenantFatman my mate once did magneto with a red bucket on his head with an M cut out of it to show his face, it looked quite good but considering we'd all made some serious X men costumes for ourselves he did look a little out of place! I just remembered another mate actually did Raiden from mortal Kombat with a lampshade on his head painted yellow and a dressing gown on another night out but that didn't look too bad either
@crimsontadpoles nice yeah I guess I just chose things depending on how I felt toward the situation which is how I tend to play these sorts of games usually, so I'm glad im not alone in my reactions to certain situations. I considered your option but I just thought Tobi would be more fun/interesting and apart from some implied sexual tension, it wasn't really. That other poor girl on the balcony didn't even get a look-in! I only noticed the option to go see her just as I was choosing Tobi. Was it her you didn't save by choosing the right drug? I knew epinephrine was adrenaline and I didn't think it would work but I didn't know what lidocaine and the other one was so I just went for the adrenaline in the end and it seemed to do the trick!
@ralphdibnyYeah, I think it was her who I gave the wrong drugs to. For me, someone mentioned which drug to use about a minute or so before the choice, but I wasn't paying enough attention to the medical sounding name.
@ralphdibnyYeah, it was the doctor. I wasn't paying much attention to the specific medicine she mentioned as I was expecting her to do it herself. But then she disappeared, can't remember what happened exactly.
@LieutenantFatman yeah that'd be awesome, except I'd have to reveal my secret identity haha
I've only been to one convention, a small charity one that a colleague of mine put on. Most of my outfits are from birthday parties down the pub! Yes, we did get some funny looks from the local geezas!
@nessisonett Simon Pegg, one of the lads...has a dark secret...he owns a commodore 64. Which side will come out on top? Who will he turn to? The war between geezers and nerds rages on within Simon Peggs soul and he might just reveal himself to be...
I’ve started Erica, and I like it pretty well so far. The controls on the touch pad take a little getting used to.
It’s slow to get going but I think I’m invested into the story now.
I will say it puts the DualShock 4 light bar to significant use doesn’t it? 😄. Never seen my controller flicker and change colors so frequently before.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@crimsontadpoles@ralphdibny I finished Erica, split it into 3 sessions, despite it only being 2-3 hrs long 😅
It definitely would be better playing in one sitting because I forgot a few things in between sessions. Nevertheless, this is what I did — like you two I shot the bald guy (Lucien?) at the end and burned the place down. I saved two of the three girls — Kirsten and Tobi. I don’t know if it’s possible to save all three. I spent my extra time choosing to hang out with the weird girl Kirsten at that one part, so different from you two. She shows you some picture she’s been drawing of foxes, deer, rabbits, and butterflies. She warns you about that something is amiss and they will wipe your memory if they found out you know about it. She is less psychotic when you hang out with her and I became convinced that she wasn’t just imagining these things.
How many trophies ended up popping for you? I like how they all pop at the end, by the way. For me I got around 6 for a 13% completion after my playthrough.
I kinda want to play it again and not burn the place down, not shoot the administrator guy, try to get on the cops nerves, etc. I don’t know if any of the endings actually get you reunited with your mother and if she is really alive or not.
Anyways, overall I quite liked it. It’s another feather in the cap of Sony for putting out some daring and varied content for their first and second party games. They get a lot of guff for pumping out loads of samey third person action stealth story driven games, and that is definitely their calling card (Uncharted, TLOU, GoW, HZD, Spiderman, and now Ghost of T) but they have these little exclusives like Erica that try something new. Same for Concrete Genie, Dreams, Detroit, Until Dawn, Death Stranding, The Last Guardian, etc. So I’m glad to have played Erica; It helps that I like story heavy games and ‘choice and consequence’ games and this is an interesting take on that formula.
@Th3solution nice one well done! I'm not sure how many trophies popped exactly but I did check their rarity so I could do the equivalent of the Telltale games post game stats pages. Most of them were rare or very rare, that's all the trophies not just mine, which only tells me that most people have only played through the game once!
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