![]() Read More: 20 Most Disappointing Games Ever Made This isn’t the most technically impressive game you’ll see, but the tech meets the needs of the art design, at least when it comes to the environments. Later in the game, the environments really open up in scale, with large city streets that serve as a nice contrast to the intimate opening section. The quaint little houses and markets of Bailu are adorable, and the grassy hills they’re nestled into are so pretty it’s almost heart-warming (don’t get me started on the flowers-oh god, the flowers…). I love how detailed and well designed the game’s three main areas are, and moreover, I couldn’t get enough of the mood they evoked. ![]() And a lot of what makes me feel this way is the fact that most narrative-based games these days are just operating at a higher level than Shenmue III in this respect.īut just as often as the game’s dialogue threw me out of the experience, the game’s environments pulled me back in. I genuinely believe that if the dialogue and acting were done at a higher level, the game would benefit from it. There’s an argument to be made that the odd writing and acting is endearing in a B-movie sort of way, but I just can’t buy this as an excuse. No matter how good the broad strokes of the overarching narrative are (and they are decent), listening to consistently bad dialogue undermines the story, period. The dialogue is a serious issue, particularly because it’s in a narrative-driven game with tons and tons of unskippable dialogue scenes throughout. There’s a moment when Ryo is meant to innocently flirt with an elderly lady by saying “Excuse me, gorgeous.” But the actor delivers the line as if he has no clue of the context of the scene or the way real people speak. ![]() The actors’ performances are poor across the board as well. It is unignorably stilted and incoherent almost all the time, with characters awkwardly asking questions twice, at times completely ignoring what they’re saying to one another, and almost always sounding unnatural and robotic. The dialogue, by far, is the game’s greatest drawback. Unfortunately, the old formula shows its age in several ways, which distracts from the overall experience pretty persistently. Read More: The Games You Need to Play in 2020
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