Until Dawn™

Way better than the Quarry

Love Until Dawn, I absolutely love it. Original release I platinumed the game in less than a week. I was obsessed. Cons: This version should really be called a remaster because it changes a lot of the foundational aspects of the story in a way that really change the experience, in my opinion. The Score was completely different, which really caught me by surprise and the opening song felt more like a washed out KDA track or like it was from the soundtrack on Arcane. Really hokey and makes the game's start feel much less established than the original. The changes to the context clues and even movements in the game don't allow you to get the hints and indications for big reveals that come later in the game like the original, and a lot of sound effects and audio design felt very bland by comparison to the source material. Fair warning, the game will randomly drop framerate for no discernable reason. I nearly got 3 of the main characters killed numerous times because of framedrops happening during quicktime events that are vital to ensuring characters live. There was a new added feature in the game, you collect "totems that give you different clues as to how to save characters, how they may die, and even warnings about how to handle situations for the best outcomes, but there was a newly added totem type that didn't seem to add anything to the game in any way, nor did it provide clues that were helpful to unraveling the mystery. Added endings that are vague, seemingly unimportant, and don't really add anything tot he story felt multiple options and endings feel unimportant or confusing. Pros: The visual updates to the game including the 60 fps updates and aspect ratio supports were so nice. The enhanced lighting was incredible and set the visual tone so well that I felt like I was playing a new game at first. The characters felt the same which was so nice, they were very faithful to the original in these aspects and nearly all the voice lines were the exact same, so newer players really will get a true to form experience with the cast. The pacing felt much better, previously the original used to take anywhere from 7 to 9 hours to complete and I felt like I breezed through the game in about 5 to 6, which was nice. They managed to use some of the seemingly mundane mechanical interactions to give you practice at performing detailed actions that really come in handy further through the story when situations get tense and the mechanics were much more responsive. Overall: A very good experience for horror fans, a great way for people to get to experience this masterpiece, would HIGHLY recommend playing the original for a truely horrifying and overall more satisfying experience. Thank you for this trip down memory lane.