Reply To: Final thoughts?


TigerQuoll
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#9037

A couple of points I forgot to mention:
I love how, when you talk to someone, Foster first patiently waits for them to finish doing whatever idle activity they’re frittering away on, and then the two characters do a little tango around the whole room before they can actually speak. (Is it some weird future etiquette I’m not aware of?)

But I am quite impressed with some of the animation. A lot of it is merely utilitarian, but there’s definitely moments where it is positively gorgeous.

Agreed on the voice acting, Websat. Although to be honest, hit-and-miss voice work was probably better than par for the period! (Usually it was more miss than hit.)
The worst, I hate to admit, was Foster himself. A lot of his lines sound like he was reading to four year olds from a picture book.
I loved Joey while he was being totally misanthropic and surly. I wish he would have stayed that way for the whole game.

I guess my final verdict is that the game is worth a look. There are some striking and interesting elements there that give it a unique appeal. I don’t think it suffers from any fatal flaws, but it also doesn’t quite hit it out of the park in some ways it could have.