I’ve not watched that fat mess’ review but I can assure you it’s a very very good game.
And that’s coming from someone who doesn’t like these sorts of games usually.
But the demo got me hooked so took the plunge. It’s very good.
How?
Honest question, as I
really don't get it - how is it a good game? Sell the gameplay to me, the interactive experience.
You might have been hooked by the storyline perhaps, but there's millions of movies and books that could offer you the same thing; games can have compelling stories and indeed should do in many genres, however it needs to be moved forward through gameplay mechanics to keep the player interacting with the experience and thus engaged. That's why games are different to movies and books.
So what part of it in terms of being a game is good - because to me, these games are 'choose your own adventure' books in movie form, with pressing a button replacing finding a page number and turning to it. Which is fine - I'm sure for some, Detroit: Become Human is a fine example of that - but I can't for the life of me see how that equates to being a good 'game'.
I don't call Lord of the Rings a game because I turned the page over to progress the story when I read it, and
Titanic wouldn't be a game if "Press X to shag in a car" popped up on the screen in the cinema.
