Lost Records: Bloom & Rage

чувствуется духовным продолжением Life is Strange: это снова история о дружбе, взрослении и травме, но через призму лета 1995‑го и подростковой панк‑банды. Игра отлично раскрывает четверых главных героинь — их характеры, конфликты и динамику внутри компании, так что к концу реально начинаешь переживать за их судьбу и то, что случилось с их дружбой. Сильная сторона — атмосфера 90‑х: стиль, одежда, комнаты, кассеты, детали окружения и визуальный дизайн создают очень ностальгичное, «тёплое» ощущение, как будто смотришь найденную домашнюю запись на VHS. Камера и «камкордер»-механики вписаны в геймплей органично: через съёмку, ракурсы и небольшие мини‑игры игра даёт лучше прочувствовать моменты и отношения между героинями. Диалоги в основном звучат естественно и неловко‑подростково (в хорошем смысле), решения имеют множество скрытых последствий, а к финалу первой «кассеты» история подводит к крепкому клиффхэнгеру, который хочется продолжения. Отдельно радуют музыка и озвучка: лицензированные треки и саундтрек хорошо попадают в настроение, а актёры озвучки — и юных, и взрослых персонажей — делают героинь очень живыми

this game was so incredible, i cried and then booked a tattoo the next day. yes the tattoo is based on the game,

If you love this style of game in general, or are a young person, you may get a lot out of this. If you are mainly here to chase the highs of Life is Strange 1 (which I liked) or Life is Strange 2 (which I adored), I think you’ll be disappointed – and I played those within the last couple of years, so this isn’t nostalgia. Speaking of nostalgia, despite being ages with the adult characters in the game, and teenage in the 90s, Lost Records triggered no feelings of nostalgia. It triggered no emotional connection at all. I was looking forward to playing a middle-aged character for a change, but those sections exist only to prompt flashbacks and the characters are two dimensional. The teenagers aren’t much better. I enjoyed that the protagonist was quite awkward and had less popular interests – it’s fun to experience different perspectives. However, making the ‘right’ dialogue choices boiled down to bending my character to each of my friend’s viewpoints to build relationships with them, undermining the sense my character was a role to play (other than a people pleaser). The other characters are largely stereotypes (developers seem so focused on creating gamer type characters). It was difficult to know what dialogue option the game thought was ‘right’. Usually you can tell in games – choices lean good/evil or towards/away from a particular worldview. I would try to be diplomatic, then find I had decreased a relationship. I got a disappointing ending. Not that in the end your choices make much difference to the story, only to your friendships. The real time dialogue added to the frustration. I’d be busy with a filming task set by the game, then see I was missing triggering a dialogue option (for which you must be in the right position near a character), then by the time I’d got there, the option would be gone. I liked the filming mechanic, but it didn’t integrate with how the story evolved – the story could just as easily have happened without it. There was the beginning of a fantastic idea there. There was also far too much of the tedious find something in the environment sort of ‘gameplay’. I found the writing quite poor overall, and some of the voice acting was dodgy, with gushy, over the top dialogue and at times very slow speech with long pauses between words. It all sounded so unnatural, it was very immersion breaking. Added to this, I had performance issues even with the graphics settings reduced (though my graphics card is close to the recommended spec and my laptop exceeds all other recommend specs) and technical issues (such as RS sometimes only working in filming mode and not when just trying to move normally). On the plus side, it looked great and the soundtrack was excellent as usual. But overall, it’s a lot of money for something no better than watching an average Netflix YA show.

I'M balling my eyes out!! what an incredible story!! Y'all get me everytime!!! Please keep making games!!!

Tardé mucho en poder jugarlo pero valió muchísimo la pena, es un juego contemplativo muy hermoso, el apartado visual y musical son de las cosas qué más disfruté, y por supuesto la historia junto a sus personajes no se queda atrás. Don´t Nood lo volvió a hacer, nos trajo a un grupo de chicas con las que te encariñas, cada una a su propio modo. Lloré mucho y desee vivir un verano como en 1995.

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I love this game, i just wish it was longer </3