Played and enjoyed this recently. I'll re-post my summary here with a bit extra:
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I got semi-spoiled on the Jefferson twist so it wasn't really shocking unfortunately but it was still a good run.
Enjoyed the time travel elements. Enjoyed the overall plot and characters and setting. Great aesthetics and music and so on.
My only gripe was the ending felt a bit anti-climactic. I kind of gathered they were going the sacrifice Chloe route so I was geared up a bit more to make the choice (I chose to sacrifice her because it felt like the universe demanded it etc.
I also think Chapter 5 was a lot of padding and little substance. What was there was great and genuinely quite dark and disturbing. The nightmare was definitely troubling in places but downright silly in others. I actually think with the darker elements there was some genuinley quite haunting stuff in there and it did have an effect on me, which a lot of media doesn't so kudos to them for that.
Just wish they'd done a bit more with the B characters at the end. I cared a lot more about Warren and Frank and all those other fucks who quite honestly felt like tertiary background noise to MAH CHLOOEEE who I never much gravitated towards anyway because she came across as such a spoiled brat.
Good game. Not really interested in the prequel beyond reading up on it though.
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BIG CHOICES:
I kissed Warren (not that it mattered), bro deserved it HE WAS A COOL GUY. I also let him beat Nathan up because fuck Nathan.
I wasn't BFFs enough with Victoria to get her to listen to my advice which ultimately gets her killed anyway, so she just wound up surviving.
I had David kill Jefferson and then rewound because I didn't like leaving him in the alt timeline such a broken wreck of a man.
Kate died. Whoops. I said the wrong Bible verse
I got Nathan kicked out of campus again fuck Nathan
I painstakingly redid the Frank confrontation until we were all buds. TOOK A TIME
I got David kicked out of his house and felt like a dick because even at that point he was obviously being set up as a red herring.
I didn't kill Chloe in the alt timeline because I spent so long traipsing around and talking to her folks that it felt wrong.
Despite me not warming to Chloe in the way the game wanted, I still found the ending tremendously sad and the scene where they discover Rachel's body in the junkyward was one of the most powerful and haunting moments I've come across in media in a long time. I think the juxtaposition of the music and what's happened and the general creepiness/darkness of the whole dark room subplot coupled with Chloe's frantic-ness took it beyond intense.
