I don't like horrors. I really don't. When it is too much for me, I cover my eyes with my legs and just listen, or I say that I want the movie to turn off. This applies even to games.
I had never played a scary game until this year when all of my surroundings recommend Until Dawn. It's an adventure. I like adventure games, so I was convinced and start playing it during the day. There was no way playing it at night.
What's the game about?
Imagine a party with your seven friends in the creepy solitary house of one of them somewhere in the mountains where you can only get by the cable car and where about a year ago, his two sisters disappeared. Well, it is ideal. I wouldn't just go there for nothing. Already in the opening scene, the whole environment looked quite unfriendly when something chases you, and you don't know what.
But okay, I've overwhelmed this irrational thing and played on.
Your goal is to survive Until Dawn.
Most of the time you just walk/run around and wait for something to scare you. Well, it was not so scary, but sometimes I thought I didn't want to play it anymore. In fact, some psychopath has lived in the house, and when you walk outdoors, you are always chased by something, and sometimes you bumped into dead pig's head.
Butterfly effect
The whole game is based on the butterfly effect so you must think about the slightest little thing before you choose some option. Sometimes this is complicated by a short time limit and if you do not get it in time? Oops.
Thanks to that, the game has lots of endings, so it doesn't mean that when you read this article, and then you play the game you will have the same ending like me.
At the same time, you can collect totems during the game (probably there was some Indian burial nearby) that will show you the future. In my case, no one of them was fulfilled.
Characters
In the beginning, you are gradually acquainted with the characters you will be playing during ten relatively short chapters. Each chapter ends in the office of a strange psychiatrist who is testing you.
Now I will introduce you the main heroes from my point of view, including their destiny.
Josh
This creepy house belongs to his family, and he is the brother of those two missing sisters. It was his idea to organize a party at a crime scene in honor of his sisters. He was a little strange to me. I didn't have any opinion about him until half the game.
His death was really bad. Something's squeezed his head. But I wasn't sorry for him.
Sam
Best friend of one of the deceased sisters. She was the best female character for me. She was reasonable and quite courageous. In the end, she did a mistake, and a man died because of it (Ok, it was not her mistake at all. I played her.).
Mike
My favorite male character. Besides being the most handsome of all the boys, he was also quite brave, because what he experienced during the game, would break others.
He could survive. But I didn't realize that when I got the chance to save him, he would stay in one place like an asshole and burn. I was sorry for him.
Emily
Mike's ex-girlfriend. Well, I didn't like her. She was conflicting a lot. Just the tone when she spoke! Arggh.... But I let her live. Again, I'm not so stupid to kill someone just because I don't like him.
Matt
Emily's current boyfriend. I would call him a kind idiot. I do not know why he's with Emily. He was a pretty good character.
Ashley
A fragile girl who believes in spirits and who has a crush on Chris. Her sensitive soul has a tough time in the game, so the man wanted her death just to give rest to her soul. But she survived.
Chris
I also liked this one, except for some of the pranks he prepared for his friends. I would kill him for that. He was pretty cool.
He died because he failed to return to the house in time.
Jessica
Mike's current girlfriend. Another girl I didn't like because I'm a girl. Just a stupid blonde who only thinks about sex. Mike was with her just because of her pretty face and body I think.
I thought she had killed herself by fall.
The game has an incredibly gloomy atmosphere, and you except some bugaboo around every corner, but it was not that terrible in the final. I'd like to play the game again just to get platinum trophy and discover other butterfly effects and endings.
Finally, I must say that I was trying to play the game wisely. Outside, I chose safer ways and tried to act reasonably in the dialogues and decisions in the light of the circumstances. Despite that, four people died. But I'm still better than a friend to whom survived only one character.
And how about you? Can the game be finished without death?
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Character images
Deceased stamp
