You ever wonder if Aiden just possesses someone and has a cup of coffee or a soda?
As for the dad bit, i’m kind of sad that Aiden didn’t just neck snap that guy.
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I wished for more blood and gore…I was severely disappointed by this as well.
There is going to be plenty of blood-filled justice in this game, for sure.
And also plenty that is totally not… “justice” per se, but… it gets a little complicated.
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If Aiden doesn’t explode someone by the end of this game I’m gonna be super pissed.
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Please, stay with the class and don’t read ahead.
(And the answer sort of relies on your definition of “explode”.)
Let me just say that the game goes from 0-100 REAL QUICK, and you’ll know the moment you see the first real content warning in a video.
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So is there a reason you didn’t get the right card, or is there something I just missed?
Also man this control scheme does NOT look intuitive in the slightest, even after it’s explained.
That was just because. If you get a card wrong twice, Cole stops that part of the experiment and also says Aiden’s name like the more… normal(?) pronunciation. So I failed it on the last card, so we could at least see everything before the… other part.
This part actually really is fairly intuitive. It’s pretty easy to know what the game wants out of you when it comes to Aiden once you’ve played a few of the earlier chapters.
That being said, there is a major game mechanic we haven’t seen yet, and it is 100% confusing and I will do my best to explain it, but the game just kind of shrugs and says, “you figure out what we want.”
So, look forward to that.
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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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