Not For Broadcast

一周目的体验还算可以，但因为存档点太少了，一开始开的档是普通难度，隔了很久用手柄去玩，连调试信号那都能挂了四五次……进去又得从头开始选图片，蛮崩溃的。另类音游了，你妈的打多结局的时候真的崩溃了……这种SLG不就该多给点存档机会吗？不然就会变得极度枯燥啊。 但是！Sportsboard这个章节实在是太搞了哈哈哈哈！ 这游戏我感觉应该改名成【全能导播】，我也太强了，一边切屏禁言操控人心，一边还得会打节奏提高收视率，完了还得抽空听主持又说了什么地狱笑话，这时候不得不提到faker了，小李应该很合适干这行。 而且这流程真的特别像养尊处优的白人大人写的本子……跟玩beholder一样，总觉得这团队应该没人在集权社会长期生存过……叙事上的细节失真让体验感也有所下降，政党也太善良了吧？简直算是大善人了bro！我们老中人是这样的，看别人没吃过集权的苦的话就心里不太平衡。 不过要是想体验也得重开也挺麻烦的😄

我说你为什么非得找这种事！😡😡😡 你为什么专捡这个事报道！😡😡😡 你告诉我你的居心何在！😡😡😡 你发这些有什么目的！😡😡😡

Now that I played the entire game I can actually give a sensible review. You can read the summarized version here: PRO - The actors had a stunning performance, I genuinely loved all of them - Camera work is well done - The controls are easy to master and the game play elements are pretty alright - Your decisions actually have consequences and it's really fun to see them play out - It was a pretty immersive experience, I really did feel as if I was managing this broadcast and it does seem like the people who made this game had an experience on such things beforehand MIXED - The story felt like a mixed bag, on one hand there are the funny and silly segments of the game that you know not to take seriously and then on the other hand the joke drags on for too long and I can't be invested in the main conflict, I genuinely preferred knowing more about the side characters instead CON - Certain segments just dragged for too long in my opinion - The family segments and other similar segments felt pretty boring and irrelevant, it doesn't feel like your choice on those really affects you much, especially game play-wise - It was blatantly obvious that these people have no knowledge of how internal and external politics work and it's a big issue because it drags the entire story line down, and I couldn't help but cringe at a multitude of elements. (Now, the main problem is that a lot of information is hidden from us and it is a tad difficult to really judge the whole picture, I also did only play this game once, without seeing the other endings.) In the end, if you want to play this game for its more political elements you won't find anything interesting, the story is not nuanced enough and it's obvious that these people haven't done their research, but if you want a fun experience in which you can just chill out in the back stage and look at some silly moments, then this game is for you.

Однозначно к покупке. Я серьёзно. Игра реальных актёров (а не ИИ хрючева) на высоком уровне. От игры жесткий "вайб" словно как от сериалов с реальными людьми от Никелодеон нулевых/начала десятых. Не пожалел ни копейки потраченных на эту игру. Русская озвучка тоже на высоте для данного жанра. Короче тупо топ, или как говорило наше поколение - "клёвая игра, суперкрутая, просто офигенная!"

Крутой концепт и приятно осозновать, как сильно в игре можно влиять на течение событий.

It feels like a Job (in a good way) Review after first playthrough (not gonna do 12 more playthrough). So it feels like a job cause you are playing as a broadcaster which is new experience. You are actively managing the news, at first its fairly easy but than they keep adding new stuff which makes it little stressful hence difficult option is there. Great simulation, Great acting and VAs. It has added story too which makes it quite unique, choices to matter based on what you do in broadcasting. this all makes the game very unique. In reccommended mode the game is not hard and just a good amout of stress but still its very hard sometimes to track whats going on. When you are focusing in doing a perfect broadcasting you miss out on the news/story itself. when you focus on news/story you make broadcasting bad. So thats challenging and kinda fun the humour, Its a british news so there are slangs or phrases i didnt understand at all. if i was british than probably would be funny idk. i did understand some of the jokes but not all of them. I did felt fatigue for this game cause like i said it felt like a job XD which means game did it correct at the end. when the final broadcasting hit it didnt conculde our story which is weird. 12 more endings just gonna watch on youtube. 4/5

The satire is incredibly unsubtle and unfunny, the brand of totally nonsensical centrism (the rebel group that uses violence is just as bad the government they're rebelling against that started a literal ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ nuclear war) is exhausting, and most importantly, the moment-to-moment gameplay isn't even remotely fun enough to make up for that. Most of the time it's an incredible slog full of little busywork tasks. The performances by the actors are pretty good but they can't redeem the stinking pile of ♥♥♥♥ that is the writing. Unfortunate, because the premise is really creative.

I really want to sing as many praises for this game as a can, even if i didn't like it in the end. Genuinely this game has so many amazing things about it, the gameplay is fantastic, the controls were easy to understand and the actors did a phenomenal job I would've considered this a 10/10 game if not for the story. It feels like in order to make the game feel like your choices matter in a bigger way, the devs chose to slip in too much "both sides" of a political argument, because if there was a clear moral choice it would've made for uninteresting gameplay, which makes sense from a game design persective but it ends up just coming across pollitically confusing and boring to play. I really ended up not finding any fun in the later segments as it just feels like your choices mean nothing. But I seriously do love the concept and if NotGames ever decided to make a sequel/successor to this game with a more thought out story, I would 100% play it. (also again the actors who did the fmv segments derserve so much praise because they were fantastic regardless of how the story turned out)