The developers estimate the game will take roughly 40 hours to see everything, and from my multiple playthroughs of the game, that’s easily true. This encourages replay as it’s impossible to see all of the choices in a single playthrough. It’s often not immediately clear which decisions will have lasting outcomes until you are far further into the storyline. There is no “good” or “bad” choices here, simply options with outcomes. There is even a percentage associated with the timeline, so you can know how close you are to discovering all of the options. It encourages you to go back and experience other outcomes, or even different paths to the same outcome. This decision tree is straight out of a design playbook, but here it’s part of the game itself. After every mission, you’ll be presented with a timeline that shows you where your story might have diverged, had you chosen differently. What makes this game different than previous efforts, however, is that the choices I made created my outcome - your outcome is likely to be very different.Īs you can see, there are more organic choices than Heavy Rain or Beyond: Two Souls had to offer, and they feel far less binary.
As such, I’ll be purposefully vague so as to avoid spoiling any of the story in this review beyond the first few minutes of the game, which you can see below. Where Beyond: Two Souls often felt disconnected, its narrative unfocused, Detroit’s narrative is tight and cleverly interconnected. David Cage and his team have outdone themselves with Detroit: Become Human.
Their interactive dramas are filled to the brim with famous actors, tough choices that have to be made under the pressure of a timer, and some of the best motion / voice capture in the industry. They challenge the status quo of conventional storytelling, asking the player to make choices based on their own morality, and they offer no judgement for choice beyond consequences. As the world advances, and robotics reach the point where androids could conceptualize things like fear, anger, resentment, and even self-preservation, where does their freedom start and end? Should they be afforded rights? Should they have freedom? Free will? Detroit: Become Human explores these, and many other morality concepts in what is easily the best game Quantic Dream has ever made.ĭeveloper Quantic Dream has made five games, and all of them have similar themes. For those that have grown up in the United States, it’s even something that you might take for granted as you’ve never known anything else.
It’s a funny concept that can mean a lot of different things, based on your perspective.
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