spoilerFor a refresher, the core concept of the game is that a husband and wife are divorcing for a variety of reasons. Their daughter finds out and cries over a book asking her parents to get back together. The self help relationship book then comes to life, turns the parents into dolls, and guides them on a quest to be better for each other so they don’t split up. The parents aren’t happy with this and just look for ways to get back into their normal bodies. When they realize that their kid cried over the book, the dad assumes that tears are the answer based off of the books he reads with said kid. So they go into the kids bedroom, find the kids favorite stuffed animal (an elephant) and proceed to literally tear it apart while it begs for its life. Like screams and pleads for the parents to not tear it apart. I cannot emphasize enough that the toy came to life and started begging to not be killed but they do it anyway. You as the two players RIP IT APART. You tear off a leg and an ear (I believe) in the process. The kid finds the toy and is mortified and proceeds to start crying. It obviously doesn’t work and they’re still stuck as dolls. Parents feel bad but frankly not remotely bad enough.
I remember reading a review, i think from Ars Technica, that said that the dad was by far the worst parent and, as a character, someone who didn’t evolve or learn anything. Is that right?
I never ended up finishing the game from what I remember, although I came close. I was playing with my ex as well lol
I don’t really remember him learning anything but honestly? I think the wife is worse. They’re both awful people in different regards but the wife is just so fucking cold. The dad is a dope. Stay at home dad that clearly has ADHD that he can’t manage and isn’t really in the best position to be a good parent but is an excellent dad, if that makes sense. He takes care of his child and spends absurd amounts of time with her but the lessons that he should be teaching her are often just left on the wayside. He just wants to have fun with her and be a good dad, not a good parent. He will go out of his way to set things up for his wife to try and be kind to her. The wife on the other hand works all the time and doesn’t have much time for the family. That would be one thing but the time she does have she just refuses to use to engage with said family. She ignores the husband and the kid and just runs off to be on her own. The dad keeps mentioning this throughout the game, that she doesn’t spend any time with them. She will just go into her shed and start tinkering on things, actively ignoring her family.
From what I could tell, neither one learned a single fucking thing during the (majority) portion of the game I played. The self help book keeps trying to teach them lessons and both of them ignore it but the husband is often more receptive. He’ll question what’s being said and try to bring it up with his wife who just refuses to engage.
They both suck but the dad tries and spends time with his kid. The mom seems to just hate her husband and her kid.
Nerd powers activate… (And yes, the redraws are really quite ridiculous. But tiddies sell microtransactions, I guess.)
As a side note, I never quite understood why Fio is wearing glasses in the Metal Gear Slug 2 character select screen except, possibly, so the artists could have this gag where they shatter for a quick freeze-frame when you select her:
I still don’t know why people like this game. Sure the gameplay may be fun, but everything else about the game is screaming in your face “these are terrible people, you should hate them”
I never played it, but watched a playthrough. Tbh I didn’t even finish that cause I got to the elephant scene and noped the fuck out. Like who actually thinks this is good? In any capacity?
“oH tHe CoNtRoLs ArE gOoD fOr NoNgAmErS!” Tbh that’s not enough for me to think a game is GOTY. It needs to have a story that’s at least as well done as the gameplay. It’s why the Arkham games are S tier imo.
Such amazing gameplay, my friend and I really enjoyed it but holy crap is it fucked up. The end of their previous game (A Way Out) was also very fucked up. Even with the emotional trauma, I’m looking forward to Split Fiction.
I loved their last three HITMAN games, easily in my top 10 favorite games ever (the actual story portion of it, not the liveservice), so yeah, I‘m very excited.
I also wished they would‘ve not gone the liveservice route with their last HITMAN title and kept making proper entries. Have there even been new maps since the story ended? Last time I checked all they did was throw out new targets with a shallow story on - at best modified - existing maps.
That being said, I‘m so ready and excited for actual new content from them. Exploring their maps has always been so fun for me.
And I think them working on a James Bond game has been known for so long, it shouldn‘t be much longer until we see it.
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