Until Dawn™

I first heard of the game when Jacksepticeye made his first video back in 2015 and now elven years later here I am playing this version and I'm so glad I actually got to play this story out myself. What I found good was mostly to do with the atmosphere, the way light works with the cluttered sorroundings and how the camera would switch to standard third-person allowing me to look around at the world they made and a world I got to spend eight-teen hours in, from the sorroundings to the skybox to the disatant mountains it was a marvel to look at. The music is next and another thing I appreciated as it did an excellent job of adding gravitas and impact to the tension natutrally in the scenes I got to witness and at times run through when the threat was imminent and the music did nothing but improve it. The voice acting and mocap I will mention together because my feelings on it are more measured as the dialog either enhances or puts more focus on how campy it is at times for better or ill but with that in mind it is STILL leaps and bounds ahead of the games that came after (in terms of feeling natual) where the graphics and mocap are one of the main things they would improve on in later games it is evidently still rough. How things look has definetly improved with this version as the character models look less incandesant if you remember back then and mesh into the overall atmosphere much better standing out signifigantly less but in all the right ways as to no longer have as much of a spotlight on the characters. My only real complaint is that the quality of storytelling after this became noticably worse in both writing quality, in leaving clues and most importantly in the pacing of the storybeats, this game stands above the rest in those qualities most important to a game of this style.