1/30/2024 0 Comments Axiom verge 2 endingsThe design of these is some of the creepiest, most eerie shit I’ve ever seen in a game.Īnd that element doesn’t have the same impact if Obra Dinn introduced the monsters at any other point. Creepy ass giant crab-spider things being rode by spooky, shapeless riders? Not so much. By this point in the game, you’d already seen the crew fight a giant squid, but that’s a fairly common nautical trope. It’s genuinely jaw-dropping, even if my Dad and I both started giggling at how silly the plot was starting to become. There’s a moment where most players are like “okay, wait, this isn’t just a ship where a series of random calamities happened” where you see the crew fighting a giant mutant crab monster that looks like something out of John Carpenter’s The Thing. The problem is, Obra Dinn uses the jump-around too much, and not always in service to keeping the player engaged. To its credit, it’s immediately jarring, as you see the captain blow some poor SOB away, which is no doubt the cap to a mutiny. The game opens with the ultimate final fate of the final handful of surviving crew. Obra Dinn leans heavily on nonlinear storytelling. I have never hated a show I was all set to love more than I hated The Stand 2020. Odessa Young’s Frannie is so unlikable that it makes you cheer for the embodiment of all things dark and evil. Then, there’s the “fresh” takes on characters. Bryan Cranston is uncredited as the President of the United States, doing a voice over that reminds you the man got his start playing the voices of the monster of the day on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. TERRIBLE performances by actors capable of so much better. That entire series was one of the most embarrassing dumpster fires I’ve ever seen in my entire life. The Stand doesn’t work at all as a nonlinear experience and it renders the entire nine-episode limited series unwatchable.Īctually, nonlinear storytelling was only one of many problems. I mean, come on, that’s the fun part! Each episode cuts between different time periods. The 2020 remake (an all-time contender for “Worst Timing Ever” given that it’s a show about a plague that was produced before a real life plague hit) begins with 99.9% of the world’s population already already dead. The original made-for-TV mini-series with Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald was badly acted, had terrible special effects, and was nine-ways of awesome. Look at the recent remake of Stephen King’s The Stand on Paramount+. It can be interesting when done right, but when done badly, it can be ruinous. Finally, I’m not huge into nonlinear storytelling. Weirdly, it’s my favorite 3D Zelda by a mile. In fact, the only nautical game I’ve ever really enjoyed is Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker, and I don’t even know if that counts. I’m also not so much into high seas adventures. I like a good mystery game, and there’s NEVER been a mystery game like Obra Dinn. It didn’t hold my attention and it just fell off my radar. In fact, I even started playing it on Steam when it came out. And I missed reviewing it in 2018 and getting those sweet, sweet clicks. It came with the pedigree of being from the guy who made Papers, Please. It’s a major tent pole indie and basically unlike any game that has ever come before it. For many journalists and gamers, this was 2018’s game of the year. Hell, it missed leaderboard’s top 50, which I expect to be controversial even if it just barely missed it. I think a lot of people wanted me to finally get around to reviewing Return of the Obra Dinn because they thought it could contend for the #1 position on the Indie Gamer Chick Leaderboard. Plot spoilers (but no solutions to the game) ahoy, as this is a four-year-old game and I really want to talk about the plot.
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