New tales Ep 5 live review! I had this in my drafts for so long, I'll finally post. I lost the draft 3 times while playing so some notes are missing or come from memory but yee jshshs
This run was a bad ending one so, a review of the game will happen once I play the good or neutral one, to see how the game was supposed to be played!
- the sequence with Phoung,,, like, I feel narrative would work better if we saw the choices we made in Ep 1? Like, talking about Anu's wrong doings without exactly suggesting them beforehand feels weird, esp since this is whole 'I don't care enough of others'. There was some foreshadowing for Octavio part but not this :/ like sure, it's sad Phuong had the anniversary and Anu forgot but I really wish we were showed that.
- Tediore soldiers are the most entertaining part of this episode istg. I'd even say they're the best part of the game in general as writers can strive at what they wanted - jokes.
- Fran part: Rita was adorable for trying to change (too bad she died sjhsjs) and LOU13 being a cat was amazing 🙀🙀 Bless you toxic yuri
- Mad that the relationship with killing in this game for each character is not stable. But once again, possibly something I'll need to check in good run
- Anu sequence : dear God Rhys made me so happy YOU DONT EVEN KNOW. LIKE I will replay the game and try to get to that part just to record him. He's so adorable 😭😭😭💕💕💕 even Anu can see that
- ouuuu I killed the psycho and I'm SO GLAD FINALLY HAVE ONE ACTION THAT WE ACTUALLY DID IN THIS WHOLE FUCKING THING.
- same with Keeper (tho Anu feeling bad for it, while works for her character, makes it silly since keeper was the one who wanted to kill her,,, but morality is a funny thing so IG it makes sense)
- I realised we lost that cute psycho tho,,, hope she will show up (foreshadowing)
- earlier I was mad about the sequence, it felt too forced. Seeing them mention the device - yeah I sort of see it but not fully nsjshhshsh
- wait the silly guard,,, omg is it the fella OMG IT IS OK HI HI THE CUTE PSYCHO
- free gym membership,,, would i also become a tediore soldier for that... What benefits does Rhys have...
- the fact after everything everything, first interactions siblings have is being mad Octavio shot his leg is beautiful. Siblings siblings siblings
- Fran focusing on mouth to mouth,,,a lot, even,,,, my hypersexual frem,,
- launch joke,, dear God,,,
- I'm a bit... Disappointed? That any arc happened and for now we didn't see a single thing about it, of her learning something or changing. Like why was the first part of episode for Anu there??? It feels pointless. I hope the good run will solve this...
-PUNCH THE DOOR
- I'm really mad
- I am hugging everybody with Fran cus why not djdjdhhd
- ouu tediore fellas letting BROCK do his thing is so cute sjshsh
- "I brought an echodex to a gunfight" HELL YEE GET HIM OCTAVIO
- don't kill the psycho NOOOO SHE WAS SO ADORABLE STAPLEFACE NOOO
- LOU13 IS SO SILLY with hsi timing to tell people what he thinks (tho he before seemed to respect them?) and telling any slay queen
- Googles,,, ouuuu why did Anu not learn enough with the goggles, dear God is it to show some people can stay ass holes,,,
- TIMM-E!! Pull!!
-I'm so mad that they didn't even go to Anu to talk about Stapleface? And like, yeah sure cute yuri but they didn't have much time spent together and idk why the crystal didn't work that time. It only didn't work for metal
- pour Frogurt,,,, dear God I wish this ;; and the punch with the whole ballet sequence fell so hard KSJDJDHEHE
- The shard changing Anu for different is so... Weird. Like it made her better bht now somehow, worse?
- I love tediore soldiers. Again jsjwhshl
- LOU13 NOOO DONT DIE and why did he have neutral expression instead of them using those we sad in that picture in Ep 1 ouuu
- ouuuuu OK ok that did hurt a bit
- ouuuu,,,, l0u13e,,,, no,,
- Susan,,, what the fuck sjehehshey
- Promethea,,,, news reporter,,,
- Dear God the ending feels so,,, hollow jshwhehshwh like the choice feels nonexistent? Also the friend is age
- OCTAVIO PLEASE
- and Susan is so dead inside??? And likes taco?
- gosh how we WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS WHOLE ENDING FIGHT AND STUFF WHY IS THIS SO LONG
- Goggles PLEASE ouuu
-beating Susan up was mostly for me than for anything
- WHY IS OCTAVIO SO DUM DJHSHHS the dancing thing (funny thing but i died 4 times on it jshshs)
- Anu for soemone who hates violence did a lot of it jsshhehe
- I really wished this would have ended cud ultimate battle felt so flat jsjsje
-,,, whatcha mean I saved Promethea, omg are we gonna get the Rhys ending
- ouuuu and how they end up being bicksrry
- Why 1 year later,,,
- bad ending cus I didn't develop Fran-Anu relation
* tho timm e is so cool
Final conclusions after this for now
- the game has good moments. There is some clever writing here and there and if you realise these characters are supposed to be cringe, it gets better. Tediore soldiers were always a steal and Badass Superfan, Brock, and the couple always made me smile when they showed up.
- I also liked L0U13's design and attitude. Some of his one liners were so strong and cool
- Susan was a villain. Certainly a clever and strong woman but also, often seemed to want to prove to the world she could do anything. Fs for her
- I REALLY hope that the weird inconsistencies I've been talking about with killing is my fault in some dialogues. I'll see if I can figure it out in the new run
- I'll write my review on Rhys' character cus I really feel people kept on saying how he's jack 3.0. There are some parts where the writing resembles more jack but I think it's something we can look at from another angle.
