Dustborn

solid AA game. slow-paced, with most of the game taken up with the characters talking to each other. the voice acting is good and the comic book art style is gorgeous. the musical rhythm sections weren't great, but didn't spoil it for me. certainly worth a try when it's on sale.

The protagonist can hurt people with her voice. That's the whole premise of this game in one sentence, and for the first several hours it works. You're a con artist with a gunshot wound, a stolen package, and a crew of misfits you're smuggling across a fractured, alternate history America where JFK's assassination went differently and a federal police force slowly turned the country authoritarian. Conversations feel like the real game here. You choose calm, or cutting, or you lean on your ability to weaponize language, and every choice quietly reshapes how your crew sees you by the end of the trip. The problem is everything stacked on top of that. Dustborn wants to be an adventure game, a rhythm game, and a beat em up all at once, and the beat em up part in particular just doesn't hold up. Combat is loose and unsatisfying, health regenerates fast enough that failure barely registers, and the game seems to know it, since it asks you upfront whether you'd like less of it. I wish I'd said yes. It's also a game that wears its politics loudly, and whether that lands for you will probably depend a lot on what you walked in expecting. When it's specific, showing you a person radicalized by disinformation rather than just naming the concept, it's genuinely moving. When it isn't, the dialogue can feel like it's explaining its own themes to you instead of trusting you to notice them. I liked the people in this story more than I liked playing as them. 19 hours is a lot to ask when a third of that time is spent in systems that don't pull their weight.

such a beautifully done game. i dont understand why people are so hateful towards this game. if you think its woke and all this other crap i think you may have issues. what game, movie, show doesn't have a ragtag group of outcasts fighting against some sort of government, mind u, in america. its a game and its really fun and well done.

Finally got round to playing this after buying it out of sheer annoyance at all the negative responses early on. Turns out that was all rather ironic. Red Thread do wonderful story telling and I willingly spent a few immersive hours letting the doom and gloom headlines fade away. Loved the bits of poetry here and there and Rubber Ducky's cameo! (Looking out for at least one crow ref in the upcoming games...) Thanks for making this; I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Совершенно не понимаю откуда столько негатива к этой игре из-за каких-то местоимений в самом начале. Игра не кишит инклюзивностью и пропагандой, она вообще не об этом и играть в неё довольно интересно. Советую тем, кто задумывается о том, играть в неё или нет, не обращать внимание на подобного рода отзывы, потому что это полный бред. Видят в ней повестку те, кто очень хотел её найти. Игра не про экшен далеко, это просто история, дорожное путешествие пары ребят с кучей проблем на хвосте, т.е. разговоры, разговоры, драма - не более. Если такое нравится, то велком. Из минусов, могу лишь сказать, что игра немного затянута, но в целом проходится на ура за несколько вечеров. Из плюсов: Визуал просто отменный, разглядывать персонажей очень интересно (хотя насчет одежды Зигги я бы поспорила), музыка тоже неплохая, особенно основная песня игры, но концовка все-таки смутила. Будто не додали нужной инфы, нет точки в этом сюжете, хотя, может, так и задумано. Купить по скидке и залипнуть на пару часов самое то. 8,5 Филодендронов из 10 🌱 Пы.сы. да что за вокс у Най-Най?!

100000/10 Best decision based game I've ever played, no contest. The characters feel alive with the way everyone interacts with one another and every minor decision + conversation matters. Organically letting discussions play out to see more was top tier. Starting a second playthrough nooow

for 1.5 Euro this is a good 12h game. The story has some small issues and fights are a bit dull, but not bad for 1.5 euro