beyond-two-worlds

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Listening to Dr. Mick’s playthrough as I’m cleaning my condo and I’m constantly struck by how Imaginary Friend could have been a very good tutorial chapter for the chronological order, but it can’t be because it wasn’t set up that way. As a result, there is still some jumping around timeline-wise within the chronological order and you don’t get the story told the way that it should. And I totally get that they could probably only shift the chapters around in a certain way and not alter them entirely for the new remixed order, but I do think that it does take some of the understanding of what is happening within Jodie’s life out of this playthrough version because of it.

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Dr. Mick: Aiden, don’t be a crazy ex-girlfriend, man!

Me: Ah. We’re picking up on the incest vibes early.

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Still absolutely astounded by the little motions that Jodie makes throughout the series. Jodie doesn’t just sit on the swing outside, but rocks back and forth and even twists on it while she waits for Aiden to push her. If this was DBH, the character would just wait while statute still. But here? The character has personality and character in their movements.

For all of its faults, so much love was put into Beyond: Two Souls. And the more you look at it, the more you can see that that same love just didn’t exist within DBH, and that makes me sad.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Listening to Dr. Mick’s playthrough as I’m cleaning my condo and I’m constantly struck by how Imaginary Friend could have been a very good tutorial chapter for the chronological order, but it can’t be because it wasn’t set up that way. As a result, there is still some jumping around timeline-wise within the chronological order and you don’t get the story told the way that it should. And I totally get that they could probably only shift the chapters around in a certain way and not alter them entirely for the new remixed order, but I do think that it does take some of the understanding of what is happening within Jodie’s life out of this playthrough version because of it.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Dr. Mick: Aiden, don’t be a crazy ex-girlfriend, man!

Me: Ah. We’re picking up on the incest vibes early.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Listening to Dr. Mick’s playthrough as I’m cleaning my condo and I’m constantly struck by how Imaginary Friend could have been a very good tutorial chapter for the chronological order, but it can’t be because it wasn’t set up that way. As a result, there is still some jumping around timeline-wise within the chronological order and you don’t get the story told the way that it should. And I totally get that they could probably only shift the chapters around in a certain way and not alter them entirely for the new remixed order, but I do think that it does take some of the understanding of what is happening within Jodie’s life out of this playthrough version because of it.

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Gonna also be doing some analysis of my own as I listen to him play/speak and we’re literally right at the beginning and I’m just thinking about how interesting it would have been for Broken to have happened almost immediately after Hunted (which, iirc, was the original intent) but also how important it still is for Homeless to have happened before this chapter as well. So in the version of the game that I’ve got in my head, I think that I might go Mission -> Homeless -> Hunted (main section) -> Broken -> Hunted (Town Destruction Scene) because the flow of events would definitely go a lot better.

Also, Jodie should have been Tuesday and Zoey should be her baby with Ryan but that’s just me.

[beyond-two-worlds]

I’ll scream this until I’m blue in the face: Random SWAT dude should have been Ryan.

The only exception that I will make is if you were going to do a HR crossover and he was Jayden instead. But this guy should have been a character that we know, and the fact that he’s so irrelevant that I can’t even be bothered to remember his name is about 99.9% of the problem that I have with him.

[beyond-two-worlds]

There really is a lot of power in how Nathan isn’t really surprised at the damage Jodie can cause but rather that she was willing to do it in the first place. He’s really just getting hit in the face with “Yeah, we created a monster and now it’s off his leash” and I love that for my girl.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Dr. Mick did a really interesting talk on how surveillance affects children and basically said that kids don’t really comprehend such concepts until they’re in their “late single digits to early doubles” and I can’t help but notice that Jodie is one the cusp of when that would occur… and that her closet goes from an open concept clothing rack that she would clearly need help reaching certain items with every day or a closed door wardrobe sometime between now and her teenaged years.

She was being observed 24/7 for almost her entire early developmental life and wanted what little privacy she could get in anyway, even if it was just to pick out her own clothes and keep them away from the prying eyes of her observers. And that just makes me so fucking sad.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Love how he keeps bringing up Jodie’s body language because it’s honestly one of my favourite things about Beyond: Two Souls (and, to a degree, Heavy Rain) because the way that characters walk and move in the prior titles tells us so much about their internal thought processes. By comparison the mocap for DBH is outright stale and emotionless; and while, yes, okay, the playable characters androids, you can absolutely say the same thing about the human characters in that game too. There’s not a lot of personality in that game, but Beyond absolutely knocks that out of the park when it comes to developing characters outside of verbal and facial responses and why I think that it’s a better overall constructed game.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Random NPC: Hello, precious! Don’t you look pretty today!

Dr. Mick: Tell her that she’s smart too! [Goes on a rant about how telling girl’s that they’re pretty is inportant but that you need to do compliment them about other aspects of themselves too and also that we need to do the exact same with boys.]

Me: Oh my god, so many people compliment Jodie purely on her looks throughout this game, no wonder she thinks that being attractive to men it’s so important to her personality and why Ryan’s honeypotting works so fucking well…

[beyond-two-worlds]

Firstly, I don’t even know if I’ve ever seen a version of Experiment where the player didn’t go absolutely wild as Aiden and terrified Kathleen.

Secondly, Mr. Mick is bringing up the fact that Kathleen was probably locked in the room by the experimenters, knowing that she might be subjected to Aiden’s wrath which they absolutely know was a thing. So I’m definitely wondering if Nathan and co. were expecting Kathleen to be hurt and maybe even killed because they were testing Jodie and Aiden’s potential to be weapons for the military this early in the game. He’s also talking about how the fact that the door was locked at all is definitely a sign that these experiments are being done illegally because of how hard it is to actually do testing on human beings due to all of the safety requirements, so again, that’s another point in favour of this whole thing being massively fucked up.

[beyond-two-worlds]

He’s also picked up on something interesting and that’s that Jodie is likely deliberately withholding information from Nathan and co. about how Aiden works simply because of the fact that they’re (a) not addressing Aiden in any way (either as a separate entity from Jodie or by telling Jodie to make Aiden do things) and (b) that they’re testing don’t know if she can see through Aiden’s eyes or is learning what he knows through some other form of sense. If she trusted them, she’d likely tell Nathan and co. how her senses with Aiden worked, but she doesn’t (and throughout the video, Dr. Mick indicates via her body language that she is clearly uncomfortable with the whole situation) and that’s why they need to do the test in the first place. So there’s a really interesting aspect of Jodie’s early years that I hadn’t really considered before and I love the fact that she’s probably deliberately sabotaging the experiment in what little ways that she can.

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He’s going off on how the Experient is so poorly set up and executed that it would be difficult to near impossible to deduce any usable data from what happens and I’m fascinated but also realizing that there’s only two options to really go with here on what is potentially happening. Either Nathan and co. are seriously bad at their jobs, or they were testing for something else entirely… and I think that it was the latter.

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Gonna also be doing some analysis of my own as I listen to him play/speak and we’re literally right at the beginning and I’m just thinking about how interesting it would have been for Broken to have happened almost immediately after Hunted (which, iirc, was the original intent) but also how important it still is for Homeless to have happened before this chapter as well. So in the version of the game that I’ve got in my head, I think that I might go Mission -> Homeless -> Hunted (main section) -> Broken -> Hunted (Town Destruction Scene) because the flow of events would definitely go a lot better.

Also, Jodie should have been Tuesday and Zoey should be her baby with Ryan but that’s just me.

[beyond-two-worlds]

I’ll scream this until I’m blue in the face: Random SWAT dude should have been Ryan.

The only exception that I will make is if you were going to do a HR crossover and he was Jayden instead. But this guy should have been a character that we know, and the fact that he’s so irrelevant that I can’t even be bothered to remember his name is about 99.9% of the problem that I have with him.

[beyond-two-worlds]

There really is a lot of power in how Nathan isn’t really surprised at the damage Jodie can cause but rather that she was willing to do it in the first place. He’s really just getting hit in the face with “Yeah, we created a monster and now it’s off his leash” and I love that for my girl.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Dr. Mick did a really interesting talk on how surveillance affects children and basically said that kids don’t really comprehend such concepts until they’re in their “late single digits to early doubles” and I can’t help but notice that Jodie is one the cusp of when that would occur… and that her closet goes from an open concept clothing rack that she would clearly need help reaching certain items with every day or a closed door wardrobe sometime between now and her teenaged years.

She was being observed 24/7 for almost her entire early developmental life and wanted what little privacy she could get in anyway, even if it was just to pick out her own clothes and keep them away from the prying eyes of her observers. And that just makes me so fucking sad.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Love how he keeps bringing up Jodie’s body language because it’s honestly one of my favourite things about Beyond: Two Souls (and, to a degree, Heavy Rain) because the way that characters walk and move in the prior titles tells us so much about their internal thought processes. By comparison the mocap for DBH is outright stale and emotionless; and while, yes, okay, the playable characters androids, you can absolutely say the same thing about the human characters in that game too. There’s not a lot of personality in that game, but Beyond absolutely knocks that out of the park when it comes to developing characters outside of verbal and facial responses and why I think that it’s a better overall constructed game.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Random NPC: Hello, precious! Don’t you look pretty today!

Dr. Mick: Tell her that she’s smart too! [Goes on a rant about how telling girl’s that they’re pretty is inportant but that you need to do compliment them about other aspects of themselves too and also that we need to do the exact same with boys.]

Me: Oh my god, so many people compliment Jodie purely on her looks throughout this game, no wonder she thinks that being attractive to men it’s so important to her personality and why Ryan’s honeypotting works so fucking well…

[beyond-two-worlds]

Firstly, I don’t even know if I’ve ever seen a version of Experiment where the player didn’t go absolutely wild as Aiden and terrified Kathleen.

Secondly, Mr. Mick is bringing up the fact that Kathleen was probably locked in the room by the experimenters, knowing that she might be subjected to Aiden’s wrath which they absolutely know was a thing. So I’m definitely wondering if Nathan and co. were expecting Kathleen to be hurt and maybe even killed because they were testing Jodie and Aiden’s potential to be weapons for the military this early in the game. He’s also talking about how the fact that the door was locked at all is definitely a sign that these experiments are being done illegally because of how hard it is to actually do testing on human beings due to all of the safety requirements, so again, that’s another point in favour of this whole thing being massively fucked up.

[beyond-two-worlds]

He’s also picked up on something interesting and that’s that Jodie is likely deliberately withholding information from Nathan and co. about how Aiden works simply because of the fact that they’re (a) not addressing Aiden in any way (either as a separate entity from Jodie or by telling Jodie to make Aiden do things) and (b) that they’re testing don’t know if she can see through Aiden’s eyes or is learning what he knows through some other form of sense. If she trusted them, she’d likely tell Nathan and co. how her senses with Aiden worked, but she doesn’t (and throughout the video, Dr. Mick indicates via her body language that she is clearly uncomfortable with the whole situation) and that’s why they need to do the test in the first place. So there’s a really interesting aspect of Jodie’s early years that I hadn’t really considered before and I love the fact that she’s probably deliberately sabotaging the experiment in what little ways that she can.

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Gonna also be doing some analysis of my own as I listen to him play/speak and we’re literally right at the beginning and I’m just thinking about how interesting it would have been for Broken to have happened almost immediately after Hunted (which, iirc, was the original intent) but also how important it still is for Homeless to have happened before this chapter as well. So in the version of the game that I’ve got in my head, I think that I might go Mission -> Homeless -> Hunted (main section) -> Broken -> Hunted (Town Destruction Scene) because the flow of events would definitely go a lot better.

Also, Jodie should have been Tuesday and Zoey should be her baby with Ryan but that’s just me.

[beyond-two-worlds]

I’ll scream this until I’m blue in the face: Random SWAT dude should have been Ryan.

The only exception that I will make is if you were going to do a HR crossover and he was Jayden instead. But this guy should have been a character that we know, and the fact that he’s so irrelevant that I can’t even be bothered to remember his name is about 99.9% of the problem that I have with him.

[beyond-two-worlds]

There really is a lot of power in how Nathan isn’t really surprised at the damage Jodie can cause but rather that she was willing to do it in the first place. He’s really just getting hit in the face with “Yeah, we created a monster and now it’s off his leash” and I love that for my girl.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Dr. Mick did a really interesting talk on how surveillance affects children and basically said that kids don’t really comprehend such concepts until they’re in their “late single digits to early doubles” and I can’t help but notice that Jodie is one the cusp of when that would occur… and that her closet goes from an open concept clothing rack that she would clearly need help reaching certain items with every day or a closed door wardrobe sometime between now and her teenaged years.

She was being observed 24/7 for almost her entire early developmental life and wanted what little privacy she could get in anyway, even if it was just to pick out her own clothes and keep them away from the prying eyes of her observers. And that just makes me so fucking sad.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Love how he keeps bringing up Jodie’s body language because it’s honestly one of my favourite things about Beyond: Two Souls (and, to a degree, Heavy Rain) because the way that characters walk and move in the prior titles tells us so much about their internal thought processes. By comparison the mocap for DBH is outright stale and emotionless; and while, yes, okay, the playable characters androids, you can absolutely say the same thing about the human characters in that game too. There’s not a lot of personality in that game, but Beyond absolutely knocks that out of the park when it comes to developing characters outside of verbal and facial responses and why I think that it’s a better overall constructed game.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Random NPC: Hello, precious! Don’t you look pretty today!

Dr. Mick: Tell her that she’s smart too! [Goes on a rant about how telling girl’s that they’re pretty is inportant but that you need to do compliment them about other aspects of themselves too and also that we need to do the exact same with boys.]

Me: Oh my god, so many people compliment Jodie purely on her looks throughout this game, no wonder she thinks that being attractive to men it’s so important to her personality and why Ryan’s honeypotting works so fucking well…

[beyond-two-worlds]

Firstly, I don’t even know if I’ve ever seen a version of Experiment where the player didn’t go absolutely wild as Aiden and terrified Kathleen.

Secondly, Mr. Mick is bringing up the fact that Kathleen was probably locked in the room by the experimenters, knowing that she might be subjected to Aiden’s wrath which they absolutely know was a thing. So I’m definitely wondering if Nathan and co. were expecting Kathleen to be hurt and maybe even killed because they were testing Jodie and Aiden’s potential to be weapons for the military this early in the game. He’s also talking about how the fact that the door was locked at all is definitely a sign that these experiments are being done illegally because of how hard it is to actually do testing on human beings due to all of the safety requirements, so again, that’s another point in favour of this whole thing being massively fucked up.

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Gonna also be doing some analysis of my own as I listen to him play/speak and we’re literally right at the beginning and I’m just thinking about how interesting it would have been for Broken to have happened almost immediately after Hunted (which, iirc, was the original intent) but also how important it still is for Homeless to have happened before this chapter as well. So in the version of the game that I’ve got in my head, I think that I might go Mission -> Homeless -> Hunted (main section) -> Broken -> Hunted (Town Destruction Scene) because the flow of events would definitely go a lot better.

Also, Jodie should have been Tuesday and Zoey should be her baby with Ryan but that’s just me.

[beyond-two-worlds]

I’ll scream this until I’m blue in the face: Random SWAT dude should have been Ryan.

The only exception that I will make is if you were going to do a HR crossover and he was Jayden instead. But this guy should have been a character that we know, and the fact that he’s so irrelevant that I can’t even be bothered to remember his name is about 99.9% of the problem that I have with him.

[beyond-two-worlds]

There really is a lot of power in how Nathan isn’t really surprised at the damage Jodie can cause but rather that she was willing to do it in the first place. He’s really just getting hit in the face with “Yeah, we created a monster and now it’s off his leash” and I love that for my girl.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Dr. Mick did a really interesting talk on how surveillance affects children and basically said that kids don’t really comprehend such concepts until they’re in their “late single digits to early doubles” and I can’t help but notice that Jodie is one the cusp of when that would occur… and that her closet goes from an open concept clothing rack that she would clearly need help reaching certain items with every day or a closed door wardrobe sometime between now and her teenaged years.

She was being observed 24/7 for almost her entire early developmental life and wanted what little privacy she could get in anyway, even if it was just to pick out her own clothes and keep them away from the prying eyes of her observers. And that just makes me so fucking sad.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Love how he keeps bringing up Jodie’s body language because it’s honestly one of my favourite things about Beyond: Two Souls (and, to a degree, Heavy Rain) because the way that characters walk and move in the prior titles tells us so much about their internal thought processes. By comparison the mocap for DBH is outright stale and emotionless; and while, yes, okay, the playable characters androids, you can absolutely say the same thing about the human characters in that game too. There’s not a lot of personality in that game, but Beyond absolutely knocks that out of the park when it comes to developing characters outside of verbal and facial responses and why I think that it’s a better overall constructed game.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Random NPC: Hello, precious! Don’t you look pretty today!

Dr. Mick: Tell her that she’s smart too! [Goes on a rant about how telling girl’s that they’re pretty is inportant but that you need to do compliment them about other aspects of themselves too and also that we need to do the exact same with boys.]

Me: Oh my god, so many people compliment Jodie purely on her looks throughout this game, no wonder she thinks that being attractive to men it’s so important to her personality and why Ryan’s honeypotting works so fucking well…

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Gonna also be doing some analysis of my own as I listen to him play/speak and we’re literally right at the beginning and I’m just thinking about how interesting it would have been for Broken to have happened almost immediately after Hunted (which, iirc, was the original intent) but also how important it still is for Homeless to have happened before this chapter as well. So in the version of the game that I’ve got in my head, I think that I might go Mission -> Homeless -> Hunted (main section) -> Broken -> Hunted (Town Destruction Scene) because the flow of events would definitely go a lot better.

Also, Jodie should have been Tuesday and Zoey should be her baby with Ryan but that’s just me.

[beyond-two-worlds]

I’ll scream this until I’m blue in the face: Random SWAT dude should have been Ryan.

The only exception that I will make is if you were going to do a HR crossover and he was Jayden instead. But this guy should have been a character that we know, and the fact that he’s so irrelevant that I can’t even be bothered to remember his name is about 99.9% of the problem that I have with him.

[beyond-two-worlds]

There really is a lot of power in how Nathan isn’t really surprised at the damage Jodie can cause but rather that she was willing to do it in the first place. He’s really just getting hit in the face with “Yeah, we created a monster and now it’s off his leash” and I love that for my girl.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Dr. Mick did a really interesting talk on how surveillance affects children and basically said that kids don’t really comprehend such concepts until they’re in their “late single digits to early doubles” and I can’t help but notice that Jodie is one the cusp of when that would occur… and that her closet goes from an open concept clothing rack that she would clearly need help reaching certain items with every day or a closed door wardrobe sometime between now and her teenaged years.

She was being observed 24/7 for almost her entire early developmental life and wanted what little privacy she could get in anyway, even if it was just to pick out her own clothes and keep them away from the prying eyes of her observers. And that just makes me so fucking sad.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Love how he keeps bringing up Jodie’s body language because it’s honestly one of my favourite things about Beyond: Two Souls (and, to a degree, Heavy Rain) because the way that characters walk and move in the prior titles tells us so much about their internal thought processes. By comparison the mocap for DBH is outright stale and emotionless; and while, yes, okay, the playable characters androids, you can absolutely say the same thing about the human characters in that game too. There’s not a lot of personality in that game, but Beyond absolutely knocks that out of the park when it comes to developing characters outside of verbal and facial responses and why I think that it’s a better overall constructed game.

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Gonna also be doing some analysis of my own as I listen to him play/speak and we’re literally right at the beginning and I’m just thinking about how interesting it would have been for Broken to have happened almost immediately after Hunted (which, iirc, was the original intent) but also how important it still is for Homeless to have happened before this chapter as well. So in the version of the game that I’ve got in my head, I think that I might go Mission -> Homeless -> Hunted (main section) -> Broken -> Hunted (Town Destruction Scene) because the flow of events would definitely go a lot better.

Also, Jodie should have been Tuesday and Zoey should be her baby with Ryan but that’s just me.

[beyond-two-worlds]

I’ll scream this until I’m blue in the face: Random SWAT dude should have been Ryan.

The only exception that I will make is if you were going to do a HR crossover and he was Jayden instead. But this guy should have been a character that we know, and the fact that he’s so irrelevant that I can’t even be bothered to remember his name is about 99.9% of the problem that I have with him.

[beyond-two-worlds]

There really is a lot of power in how Nathan isn’t really surprised at the damage Jodie can cause but rather that she was willing to do it in the first place. He’s really just getting hit in the face with “Yeah, we created a monster and now it’s off his leash” and I love that for my girl.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Dr. Mick did a really interesting talk on how surveillance affects children and basically said that kids don’t really comprehend such concepts until they’re in their “late single digits to early doubles” and I can’t help but notice that Jodie is one the cusp of when that would occur… and that her closet goes from an open concept clothing rack that she would clearly need help reaching certain items with every day or a closed door wardrobe sometime between now and her teenaged years.

She was being observed 24/7 for almost her entire early developmental life and wanted what little privacy she could get in anyway, even if it was just to pick out her own clothes and keep them away from the prying eyes of her observers. And that just makes me so fucking sad.

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Gonna also be doing some analysis of my own as I listen to him play/speak and we’re literally right at the beginning and I’m just thinking about how interesting it would have been for Broken to have happened almost immediately after Hunted (which, iirc, was the original intent) but also how important it still is for Homeless to have happened before this chapter as well. So in the version of the game that I’ve got in my head, I think that I might go Mission -> Homeless -> Hunted (main section) -> Broken -> Hunted (Town Destruction Scene) because the flow of events would definitely go a lot better.

Also, Jodie should have been Tuesday and Zoey should be her baby with Ryan but that’s just me.

[beyond-two-worlds]

I’ll scream this until I’m blue in the face: Random SWAT dude should have been Ryan.

The only exception that I will make is if you were going to do a HR crossover and he was Jayden instead. But this guy should have been a character that we know, and the fact that he’s so irrelevant that I can’t even be bothered to remember his name is about 99.9% of the problem that I have with him.

[beyond-two-worlds]

There really is a lot of power in how Nathan isn’t really surprised at the damage Jodie can cause but rather that she was willing to do it in the first place. He’s really just getting hit in the face with “Yeah, we created a monster and now it’s off his leash” and I love that for my girl.

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

[beyond-two-worlds]

Gonna also be doing some analysis of my own as I listen to him play/speak and we’re literally right at the beginning and I’m just thinking about how interesting it would have been for Broken to have happened almost immediately after Hunted (which, iirc, was the original intent) but also how important it still is for Homeless to have happened before this chapter as well. So in the version of the game that I’ve got in my head, I think that I might go Mission -> Homeless -> Hunted (main section) -> Broken -> Hunted (Town Destruction Scene) because the flow of events would definitely go a lot better.

Also, Jodie should have been Tuesday and Zoey should be her baby with Ryan but that’s just me.

[beyond-two-worlds]

I’ll scream this until I’m blue in the face: Random SWAT dude should have been Ryan.

The only exception that I will make is if you were going to do a HR crossover and he was Jayden instead. But this guy should have been a character that we know, and the fact that he’s so irrelevant that I can’t even be bothered to remember his name is about 99.9% of the problem that I have with him.

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

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Gonna also be doing some analysis of my own as I listen to him play/speak and we’re literally right at the beginning and I’m just thinking about how interesting it would have been for Broken to have happened almost immediately after Hunted (which, iirc, was the original intent) but also how important it still is for Homeless to have happened before this chapter as well. So in the version of the game that I’ve got in my head, I think that I might go Mission -> Homeless -> Hunted (main section) -> Broken -> Hunted (Town Destruction Scene) because the flow of events would definitely go a lot better.

Also, Jodie should have been Tuesday and Zoey should be her baby with Ryan but that’s just me.

[beyond-two-worlds]

So Dr. Mick, a licensed therapist who plays games on YouTube through the perspective of psychological analysis, is doing a Beyond: Two Souls playthrough and I’m actually really excited to listen to what he’s got to talk about. He did a really interesting break down of DBH that affects a lot of how I look at that game, and while I don’t agree on everything that he spoke about there, he was very insightful and I can’t wait to see what he does with Beyond.

[four-strangers-one-goal]

The long walk towards the Rat Trial is probably one of the most stunning visuals in the entire game.

[four-strangers-one-goal]

Ethan drank the poison, but went to the wrong address… Because I want Madison to come in with the save.

And now, all I need is for Jayden to fuck up, and I’ll be all set.

[four-strangers-one-goal]

I just wish that Jayden accusing Blake was enough to e sure Blake never makes it to the crime scene.

[four-strangers-one-goal]

The long walk towards the Rat Trial is probably one of the most stunning visuals in the entire game.

[four-strangers-one-goal]

Ethan drank the poison, but went to the wrong address… Because I want Madison to come in with the save.

And now, all I need is for Jayden to fuck up, and I’ll be all set.

[four-strangers-one-goal]

Imagining the scene where Madison goes to visit Anne Sheppard, but it’s Lauren instead and that’s why her character reacts so shocked when she finds out the killer’s name.

[four-strangers-one-goal]

Wait, is the implication supposed to be that Lauren brought Kramer to Scott’s apartment? Is that why she says sorry?

Also, I will always have Scott save Lauren here, if only because it can be what potentially damns him. But also because I do think he has come to love and care for her, and that overrides his knowledge that she’ll eventually have to die because he cannot stop her from investigating her son’s murder.

[four-strangers-one-goal]

The main problem with the scene between Scott and Kramer is that it’s entirely for the audience, and specifically to keep up the illusion of the twist. Because logically, Scott would know everything that Charles is saying since that’s why he wants to frame Gordi for the kills. But instead of giving us the largest opportunity to foreshadow Scott being the killer, we just get this scene instead… and it’s really disappointing.