![]() ![]() This means that Death Come True is relatively short with a runtime of no more than two hours. However, you have to play the entire story in one shot, and there’s no option to save your game at any point. You can use the shoulder buttons of the controller to jump backward and forwards about 10 seconds or so, but forward jumping is disabled whenever Makoto is about to make a decision, so you don’t miss the immediate context.ĭue to the gameflow, there isn’t an actual Game Over screen unless you choose to exit to the main menu upon death, so you don’t have to worry about making mistakes preventing you from progressing. It’s no different from watching a mystery sci-fi flick that involves characters investigating a strange location. His only hope of getting through this nightmare and recovering his memories is to work through the many secrets this hotel holds.Īs aforementioned, Death Come True is an FMV adventure where gameplay merely exists in the form of player choice. Luckily, Makoto’s not entirely out of luck since whenever he dies, he resets back to the hotel room where his adventure began, but with those past memories intact. However, it doesn’t stop there, police are on the lookout nearby who are remarkably trigger happy, yet all seem to miss the cloaked being who is out for blood. And if that wasn’t bad enough, there’s an unconscious woman in his bathroom with her hands bound, and the five o’clock news just ran a bulletin telling people to be on the lookout for one “Makoto Karaki,” a wanted serial killer. Death Come True is a title that I’ve been excited about since it was first announced, and thankfully, I wasn’t disappointed.ĭeath Come True stars Makoto Karaki, a young man who has woken up in a hotel room without his memories. Written by Kazutaka Kodaka, the creator and scenario writer for the Danganronpa series as well as several cases in the Detective Saburo Jinguji/Jake Hunter franchise. ![]() ![]() However, why stop there? Developer Too Kyo Games has brought together some of the best minds within the adventure visual novel space to give us an interactive film project titled Death Come True. ![]() Sure, some still rely on kinetic storytelling, but others have found a good niche by adding in adventure systems. Regardless of the conversations, it still finds a way to evolve and grow over the years. on Switch) is an educational game commissioned by a UK bank and has a 'tax bot' in it.The visual novel genre is continuously criticized as to whether they are actual games or not. Huh, Island Saver (a Top 20 free game in both Europe and the U.S. On LGBT+ video game streamers and the importance of communities. Robert Yang’s new game Hard Lads is typically outrageous and thought-provoking.ĭon’t generally link to previews, but found this piece on what it’s like to actually play Cyberpunk 2077 very useful. Topdown GTA-a-like Shakedown Hawaii is coming to the Wii U and Wii later this year, because the dev really converting to odd, defunct platforms!Ī great video essay on the strange reality of Rollercoaster Tycoon. The real story of the people who legally changed their name to Turok.Ī new prototype of (the Western-developed) Mario Artist: Paint Studio for the Nintendo 64 DD has surfaced. What famous game logos look like in Arabic (extremely good, actually).ĭeus Ex at 20: The oral history of a pivotal PC game.Ī great Shinji Mikami interview about 1999’s Dino Crisis, “about horror game design, difficulty, and how to engage players on a deeper level”. How Magic: The Gathering’s biggest fan landed the role of a lifetime as its head designer. This 10-year journey of an indie game dev from the Philippines is personal, interesting, & has twists and turns.īot mafias have been wreaking havoc in World Of Warcraft, leading to 75,000 player (well, bot!) bans in the last month. Why The Last Of Us II is a “narrative experiment depicting what would actually happen if a real human being behaved like a video game character.” The Almost Gone (PC, Switch, iOS, Android) is a puzzle-box game which has you poking and prodding at beautiful miniature dioramas of homes. Ninjala (Switch) is a Splatoon-ish looking free to play multiplayer brawler with cosmetics and a modicum of charm. SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated (Switch, PC, PS4, Xbox) is selling remarkably well, but is a pretty slavish update of the 2003 original. The deranged but amazing-looking Hylics 2 (PC) feels like a long-lost RPG from the 1970s. Simon, curator The Current: New Games To Considerĭeath Come True (Switch, iOS, Android) is a demise-heavy FMV adventure and the newest title from Danganronpa creator Kazutaka Kodaka. Though it has both, now! Has it attained its final form? Only time will tell. It’s interesting - I can feel the newsletter morphing beneath my feet, as it moves more towards ‘things of interest’ than longform writing. It’s Friday, and it’s definitely time for Video Game Deep Cuts on Substack, folks. ![]()
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