Oh boy, I’m excited.
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06 - Night Session
It’s a pretty chill night at the office, so I hope you’ve all come to expect from this game that the mood does not last.
07 - Hauntings
And again, another couple of short episodes, so this week’s also a double update!
Unfortunately, this chapter is basically a continuation of the previous, and I’m pretty sure we end up doing a lot more harm than good…
I promise next week we’re going to have some fun (more than usual, anyways), but it’ll come at a bit of a cost. It always does.
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So I’m gonna try and theory craft this a bit.
I’m guessing Aiden’s a twin brother of sorts, died in childbirth but still linked to her. This linking means Jodie’s got one foot in the grave, so to speak, and thus is haunted by evil, tormented spirits, but also able to see regular ghosts too. Objects or people with a lot of like…mental energy (a photo you’ve cried over a lot, a mourning father) let her eat up those psychic energies to flashback or open herself up to possession. So basically she’s Deadman, but with a human host.
Looking at these episodes, presented in chronological order…I can’t actually comprehend how this must play out of order. It feels like the cuts between episodes, at least so far with child Jodie, are way to…abrupt?
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It doesn’t make a lot of sense when played regularly.
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So. About that. I was going to wait until the next chapter update to bring this up, buuuut… this was actually the end of the child chapters. We’re doing our first significant time jump starting in the next chapter, and it’s going to be quite the trip. (Come back to this stupid joke later when we have the context for it and shame me.)
There are much longer chapters in the game, which I will refer to as “set piece” chapters, which are separated by these much shorter vignettes of Jodie’s life.
I can guarantee that the normal sequence of chapters is just as jarring, and I’ll have a video (or maybe just a segment of a video) at the end of the LP that will reveal the order in the game, and I’ll comment on some of the more whiplash-y tone shifts.
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08 - The Party
A couple of years have gone by, and it’s time for Jodie to get out there and try making some friends. I’m not too sure about this particular group of kids, but hey, if Jodie can have some fun with some kids her age, where’s the problem?
Let me know if you have any trouble seeing either of these videos because I got a whopping three copyright claims from the media licensing site that Quantic Dream used to get these songs for the game. It should only be overriding monetization and not be blocking the video, but I just want to make sure.
Can’t say the system isn’t working as intended, I guess…
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You can almost hear Aidan grinning when Jodie lets him loose. That said this is the first real carrie moment we’ve seen. Still hoping for someone’s head to go pop later.
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this game is so dumb, criminy
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Honestly surprised that Matt’s name wasn’t Chad.
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It really seems like it should be chad.
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Who the hell thinks teenagers behave this way?
The few scenes with Jodie’s parents and this particular scene really show that the only knowledge Cage has about American culture comes from movies and TV shows, and the ones that rely on cliches at that. Every single secondary character so far feels like he/she is straight out of Dawson’s Creek or 7th Heaven.
That isn’t necessarily bad writing, but it really doesn’t work for the type of story he is trying to tell, let alone a story that tries to be “pretty deep and complex”.
This is what I feel is the biggest problem in QD’s games, they swing between a serious narrative and a teen drama with no rhyme or reason.
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I get why the good doctor decided to do this. I really do. Interaction with peers is important.
Fuckin’ don’t send the psychic to a random teenage birthday party. Especially in that dress. I mean it’s not terrible, but it looks like it’s the 80s. Which I mean fair maybe it is there’s no real establishment of a time period in this game I think? And I know, it’s the teenager birthday party of the doctor’s coworkers and their kids, but it still feels like not one single good thing could of happened here.
Mr Lucky 7s up there mentioned kids don’t speak like this, and while I can think of a few examples that do he’s not wrong, but what really gets me is the voice acting. The dudes in this episode sound…incredibly wrong. The hat guy especially. Also god fuckin’…react to proof that supernatural things exist! I mean before you start dying to it, obviously.
I wrote some of this post while watching, obviously, and just got to the inciting incident and…first off, why “witch” specifically, often and always? Secondly, WHAT THE FUCKING CHRIST!? They got what they deserve.
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I regret to inform you all that things get even worse for Jodie in the next chapter…
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It’s really weird how it shifts so suddenly when they open the presents.
Even from a story standpoint this could be better. Does it really matter if these kids she doesn’t know treat her shitty? Probably not. She’s kind of used to not being accepted. And as a player it’s just a matter of moments of seeing this happen. If they wanted to really dig in. This party should have gone without any problems. Then cut to some time later when it’s established they’ve been her friends for a while only to turn on her like this. At least then it feels like it actually holds an important moment.
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Content Warning
This video contains the following:
- Sexual Assault
- Attempted Rape
- Simulated Suicide
09 - Like Other Girls
Welcome to that chapter. The one that’s bad. Really bad.
For the first half of the chapter (as I’m sure you can tell by the thumbnail), we see that Jodie’s changed a lot in the last… year(?), and she just wants to go out and do some regular teenage stuff. So, sneaking out on a Saturday just seems like the natural thing to do.
Then it goes wrong. It goes very, horribly wrong.
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Good lord almighty that’s some scenario we just went through.
I do like her outfit as an aside, as far as edgy teens go it’s not bad. But yeah um…yikes, game. Yikes.
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I can’t tell if jodie’s going goth or punk rocker or what. That said good lord Cole did not deserve what happened to him. There really needs to be some downsides to possessing him in order to go out to a really bad dive of a bar. That said i’m glad the game actually allowed for jodi to leave the bar, instead of triggering the attempted rape upon trying to leave.
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Can this girl catch a break? The chronological playthrough of this is essentially Jodie Holmes: A series of unfortunate events
Anyway, does the game ever elaborate on Jodie’s relationships with her peers? This scene implies she has friends she hangs out with, but the scene before implied that she is constantly locked up and doesn’t really get to meet anyone.
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Stay classy, David Cage!
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