As Dusk Falls

heartfelt, solid story. Great aftertaste, especially if everyone survives. 7.5/10

Mixed experience, story falls apart, characters become more one dimensional, it's like the studio ran out of money. The first part is like a 8/10, exciting and filled with drama, most of the motel section is awesome. Second part is a 5/10, endless dialogue about nothing, one of the Holt brothers is such a boring baby the whole time, dialogue choices always ending up with him being such a coward and it ends in a pointless cliffhanger with the story going in such a boring direction. [spoiler] The way the Holt family were portrayed in most of part 1 was like they were a downtrodden family doing bad things, but were overall good and fighting for their dad and against the corrupt Sheriff, it felt the game was trying to give the player an olive branch to help them. Unfortunately if you do this, Vince is still treated like crap and given no reward (in my case Jay's atrocious driving killed him, out of nowhere the main character is just killed...not nice). Such a shame as I thought the game was going towards a corrupt town / cop story line rather than this bonding over trauma nonsense that concludes the game. [/spoiler] Also hate how [spoiler] Vanessa completely turns on Jay out of nowhere if you dare defend her after she's propositioned by some guy at a party, claiming she can 'handle it herself'. Understandable response, but the sheer reversal on her character's opinion on Jay is jarring (previously she came across like she'd take a bullet for him). [/spoiler] Also once [spoiler]it's revealed Vince's wife cheated on him, it takes the game an agonising amount of time to allow Vince to be angry at his wife, it's frustrating because the game so clearly wants you to forgive her (for some reason?) and the game barely mentions it out of that scene, most of the time Vince and her are still very much together and acting like nothing happened. [/spoiler] [spoiler]BTW, Ash's story sucked and shouldn't have been in the game. In my opinion most of the characters outside of Vince fall flat. [/spoiler] Overall it might be worth playing if you can get it cheap and because games like this are so rare, probably a lot better with friends (and lots of beer). However it is an unfinished story that starts strong and falls apart mid way through, tough one to recommend.