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Mythical girlfriend and I just finished our first playthrough of\u00a0Until Dawn<\/em>, and aside from the obvious thoughts about analyzing the story, and the directions and paths we took, my first thought was how I want to play through again, immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n I haven\u2019t felt this way about a video game since like,\u00a0Mass Effect 2<\/em>, and how eager I was to go through the game a second time, but as a complete renegade decision-making asshole.<\/span><\/p>\n That being said, I thought Until Dawn was pretty awesome.\u00a0 To no surprise, the obvious comp to what it felt like playing was\u00a0Heavy Rain<\/em>, also another fantastic game that broke the mold of what typical video games were up until that point.\u00a0 But due to the butterfly effect concept that the game adopts, it basically means that the game has the potential for replay value that hasn\u2019t been seen since like,\u00a0Chrono Trigger<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As much of a goody two-shoes I like to play any type of role-player and wish to have absolutely everyone survive, simply put, I failed to accomplish such in Until Dawn.\u00a0 The game doesn\u2019t have a means to save when you want, so it\u2019s not necessarily possible to simply go back to a save point and re-do the things that lead to a particular character\u2019s demise.\u00a0 You really do have to live with the decisions and choices you make, and it\u2019s really up to you the player to remember what you did, and see if going in other directions yields different results.<\/span><\/p>\n What I really liked about the game was that they basically had so many concepts and mechanics going concurrently, that I didn\u2019t really stop to think about some of the plot devices that come into play as the story unfolds.\u00a0 And since I\u2019m trying to do my best to be spoiler-free, I won\u2019t name specifics, but when the name(s) of particular antagonists are revealed, it\u2019s like a no-brainer moment where it\u2019s so very obvious given the setting and geography of the story, but because I\u2019m thinking about butterfly effects and individual characters, I never bothered to stop and hypothesize about what I actually might be up against.<\/span><\/p>\n The bottom line is that Until Dawn was a fantastic game.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t just the Hayden Panettiere show, given the fact that she was the initial star-power that pulled interest in from the mainstream, but all the characters have unique personalities and characteristics that make them capable of drawing emotional responses from players.\u00a0 I\u2019ve played through it once, and I\u2019m already chomping at the bit to get some more time so that I can start over, and go through the game again and again, to see what else I can unfold from the story.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mythical girlfriend and I just finished our first playthrough of\u00a0Until Dawn, and aside from the obvious thoughts about analyzing the story, and the directions and paths we took, my first thought was how I want to play through again, immediately. I haven\u2019t felt this way about a video game since like,\u00a0Mass Effect 2, and how … Continue reading Until Dawn was pretty great<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[177,15,19],"class_list":["post-42225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-mythical","tag-og","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42226,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42225\/revisions\/42226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}