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How do you get that scene with bearded Dylan and the salt flats? I beat Control twice, but don’t think I’ve ever seen that

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- Baby Sweet changes people! - And how exactly? - I used to be white.

This is the best description of this story I have ever seen. Well done

REAL ALAN WAKE 2, NOT ALAN WOKE 2.

Yeesh I can feel your soy aura through the screen.

I'm convinced it was the FBC that got Ed Booker. I think we'll find out at the Lake house DLC

Kinda love that one of my favorite channels just happens to have a hyper relevant video to my own research

"I wish the free updated NG+ that actually took time to add new scenes, pages, tv, radio, dialogue, and ending had more to it. I was let down boo hoo blah blah" The complaints are weord to me... Idk how some people are disappointed with a free update NG+ that actually added to the game and didnt do what most do and just do the exact same except with your progression. New ending, new dialoge, new pages, new videos. Y'all complaining are going full 43tard. Maybe try and be appreciative that we even got AW2 and NG+ and it was a free update. You guys that are "dissapponted" sound pathetic. Can't please these crybabies

It took me WAY too long to finally find someone giving an honest critique of this game. I literally just watched 6 other youtube videos from channels very similar to "side scrollers"... All reacting to a couple of the trending clips of the game & then 'reviewing' it by screaming about the woke liberal they/them brainwashing agenda. I don't like the game personally, but I really appreciate you actually taking the time to play and review it.

Think I might give the demo a shot cause the trailer did not make me like this game a d hearing that first song did not help. That bejng said can we get a link to the full track from the end of the video.

Apparently, it's thoughtcrime to do anything more than surface level or contextless analysis of the game according to the comments. I agree with your assessment for the most part, but I was harder on Echoes as a representation of misinformation, since I feel like its supernatural maddening effects actually downplay how insidious misinformation actually is. I find Justice fascinating as far as antifa antagonists go. Many games of this genre just use generically evil cops or reactionaries as their villains, but Justice was formed out of an extreme but genuine intention to fight crime, making them come off as misguided humanized villains rather than ontologically evil ones. They also embraced inclusive branding towards non-Anomal minorities and are probably less bigoted than most of the grifters talking about the game, but they are also hypocrites because they won't apply that kind of mindset to Anomals. IMO, they map more closely to cop-loving neoliberals than to mainstream or fringe right-wingers.

Personally, I feel like this game was made with a very single minded veiw that leaves very little room with empathy for each side of the argument. The devs wanted to shame, which is honestly the worst way to communicate your views with someone. Why would people listen to what you say if you insult them? Its not like games haven't tackled politics successfully before. Look at metal gear and disco elysium! Both are heavily political but not once dose it feel outright hateful to one side. Each side, or political stance is explained and critizied equally, allowing the player to make their own informed choices. Take the dock workers from disco elysium for example. The game shows you the veiws of both the strickers, 'scabs' and even the boss of the docks. You may not agree with their stance, but you can empathise with why they think like that. Nothing is black or white, very much like real life. Its comforting in a weird way. Dustborn on the other hand is simply "This is the only way and if you disagree even a smidge you are AWFUL" Politics should never be "im right and anyone that disagrees is wrong." as when that communication breaks down, we can't understand each other. Poltics without empathy is dangerous.

Balding, short, middle aged white guy with a beard 😂😂😂😂 You are 100% the type of person I'd expect to enjoy this gayme 😂😂😂😂

just because you think you are "fair" toward this game does not mean everyone bashing this game is grifter and "kids". the dev literally advertise this game as a way to "fight the bigot gamer"

this game was made in 8 years using taxpayer's money just to rant about Donald Trump, from woke Norwegians who don't know what they're talking about. That sentence tells you more about the game than whatever your "constructive" review could ever attempt to do. You can't walk around the elephant in the room without looking like a disingenuous idiot.

man that hoop earing is so huge you can play basket ball on that 🤣🤣🤣

And ofc you delete the comment I made calling you out on your narcicism and self absorb actions. Typically lefty.

Half of the comments on this video sounds like bots. How much did you pay to boost your views? This is disgusting.

Pinning a comment that praise you is a very self entitled narcicistic cringe that is common among the leftist.

Finally, actually a good video that gives good tips lol thanks

You have my genuine thanks, thank you so much for genuine constructive review video, I purchased the game recently and I’d been struggling to find anything remotely constructive and helpful so I thank you for a honest respectful breakdown of the game, world and story

This guy stinks

You should try Barony I can't recommended it enough!

Interesting to see someone liking some of the character design. It is enlightening to have someone explain their thoughts that like this portion.

Your opinion that if people don't like something that looks bad and forced then they have been tricked into it is odd, people have pretty good BS detectors and don't have a bunch of money to drop on being lectured disguised as a video game. You and others are free to like it and pay for it, but it's clear that that's very few people.

thanks for the review. i played the game too and about the narrative... i think the characters age should have been shaved by 10 or even 15 years. the canon ages dont fit their personalities. most characters have severe arrested development. pax acts like an entitled teen who feels the world owes her something, theo is a passive leader, noam puts on heirs, sai should be medicated. eli has naieve views of the world, ziggy also feels the world owes her something, ophelia is the edgy the world doesnt understand me type... sol was cool. at 25 im more mature than most of the characters and that contrast is jarring and impacts my connection. if they were younger the angst and conflicts would make more sense, since they have less experience and less defined personalities. i think the world building and pacing should have been more intentional and explicit. they had good ideas but they make the player head cannon too much. when did the timeline converge? how happened afterwards? why is pacifica a san francisco silicon valley analog when the divergence should have chabged that anyway.... the plot does a lot of tell not show. and we miss key moments to connect with characters thar way too

brah!!!

Well, even thought I *absolutely despise* Sweet Baby Inc., I didn't even knew this teaser actually existed. I was pretty sure that Saga was a character created exclusively in the AW2 trailers, so I'm pretty much used to her being black. Plus, the actress was simply phenomenal, so she really deserves her credits. And yes, I now know that this white and blonde design was pretty much a "concept" of her.

I didn't know stuttering craig became cringe. Rip

There was no next episode

About all the bug fixes in the latest Steam build, several of those bugs (including the monster animation) were not in the original game but were introduced in later builds. The original physical version from 1998 is quite different from all the Steam releases that have come afterwards. The sound, for example, is still fucked up and has never been fixed, but the original build does not have those issues (could also be because PC’s in the 90’s had dedicated sound cards).

Finally someone made a nuanced review of this game!

the crazy thing about this game is thats its not a parody lol

Great video.

It’s just driving me a little nuts that you’re spending more time talking about the people who didn’t like the game rather than why you actually liked the game

In this game you are playing as the actual evil final boss 🤣

Absolute Banger!

The contrast between this Video and most other covering this game is insane. Easy Sub! Keep up the good work and thank you for this Video!

I played the game entirely. People from the 80-90’s created more compelling games with a fraction of the resources and without widespread internet access. I think it’s hideous to make a bad game and then cry on Twitter it’s failing because of the anti-woke crowd. People notoriously don’t care about DEI when the products aren’t a fuming pile of dung. To justify none buying the game you have two options: everyone hate direct inclusivity or Dustborn is appealing to none and it is a bad game. Developers could at least own up to the L instead of becoming maniac on Twitter.. sadly their names will never be cleansed from this project given their reactions on Twitter… I don’t see a future for them in the industry if they care to sell some copies.

This was the only positive review but I'll give it a chance hope I don't regret it

I'm just saying when I'm homophobic because I don't want to have sex with a trans 😊

The only people who bought and kept the game are the ones who actually know how bad it is. Streamers are playing it unironically. As a means to make fun of the game and how bad and cringe it is. All time Peak from Sep 3rd to Sep 10 according to steam charts 76 all time peak. Between 12 and 24 people are playing it within 24 hours. Dustborn was literally built on a political agenda from an extreme left FIRST and Foremost. Anything else tacked was merely an afterthought. Strange how there are 155 reviews at the time of writing and half that is literally the max playerbase. (Seems iffy to me) Also Google Reviews gave it a 1.2 out of 5. But realistically I think it's a 2 / 5 at best and at worst. Dustborn is trying way to hard to be relatible to a limited niche group of people who support and believe the things conveyed and expressed in the game. People are laughing at the dialog between characters because of how it tackles topics that would never be brought up in a random public setting. Players want a video game without the "Sensitive and leftist hot takes" which in a lot of ways would be mocked and or roasted to the ground. Even the demographic this game is supposed to be in full support of. Finds this game to be a hollywood checkbox of a joke made into a video game.

From what I've seen of the game, 3 things and not even talking about the politics. 1. Game graphics reminds me of an early 2000s game demo I played, which sucked. I dislike the overall graphic design in general. I know you liked it, but sorry, it looked bad to me. 2. Combat, its a joke. A two year old with a controller mashing random buttons can win these. 3. The song gameplay, again, a joke. Poorly designed to begin with and do you even have to play this to continue the "game"? Eight years, millions of dollars and for what? So we can pay $30 for a fancy, animated, choose your own adventure, graphic novel. Dustborn is what is wrong with the gaming industry. We're told to be happy to get this game, a poorly designed and laid out game. We want good games, we need to start demanding it and stop putting up with crap like this. When I worked in a computer game store 25 years ago, a game like this would have been laughed out of the store before we ever noticed the politics of it. This isn't a top tier game, its B level at best.

You have an entire section on "Shared Blame?" where your only criticism is that the devs didn't fight back against the "hate" hard enough without mentioning the gaming media deciding that this game was basically the second coming of gay black jesus. If the best thing you can say about the game is that the trailer was sh*t and games journalists decided to fight the culture war on behalf of the devs, then game may not deserve to fail but it was absolutely going to. Really tho, the fact that the game is filled with left wing buzz words and there is no exploration of how those words are used in language policing and censorship, tactics of the modern left, indicated that the devs are at least highly biased if not completely in on it.

my only counterpoint to the enlightened centrism thing is just like... yeah, most politicians are bad/out for their own profit and not doing enough to make your life better, but that's still not a good reason to be ambivalent to which side is better. Because one side is objectively doing more than the other to make your life better. Only one side supports workers rights at all, or social services, or regulations to prevent price gouging - and it ain't the conservatives. Centrists will look at both sides and say both are bad and they don't want to engage with it. Meanwhile the Leftists are like "lol, we're just kinda cringe sometimes, and some of our representatives are closely linked to corporations so that everything stays as the status quo or gives a bit more to businesses" and the Conservatives are like "Every single one of our reps is completely beholden to corporate donors and we will do literally everything they say and we have a plan to literally overthrow democracy, strip away all human rights and eliminate every social support structure and regulation in the country and the less people who vote, the better our chances at being elected." And the Centrists will look at these options and go "I can't tell any difference between the two."

I also gave it a chance, but even past the gut reaction and wake woke aspects I still found it very poorly written, thematically confused, and nonsensical, as if no one had edited the script. The characters are unlikeable save for Theo and the veteran that joins later on, with the cast getting so bloated that it's hard to get invested in anyone after a while. Other games with big casts tend to give every character a time to shine (even if they become background decorations after that, unfortunately common in jrpgs), but in this case we're constantly told, not shown about Eli being this and that, Ophelia feels like a plot device with 0 personality, Nai Nai is... honestly a disgrace to humanity all around, the little girl is a nothing plot device, etc. The music is frankly terrible, which is weird in a game that puts so much focus into it. I've met middle school kids with better compositions that whoever came up with... that. The last song is especially atrocious. I had to mute it whenever it came on because I couldn't handle the secondhand embarrassment. The "best" one is the first one, which by the way includes lyrics about newborns and pr0n back to back. I agree that criticism shouldn't be based off perceived politics, and wahh wahh woke brainrot helps no one and does nothing, but the same goes for the other side. We shouldn't consider something good because it has diversity or an alleged good message, which this game also fails at, by the way. Not only is the protagonist ANOTHER angry black woman criminal raised by a single mom, but her sister is ANOTHER nerdy Asian girl with dyed short hair and multicolored streaks who likes robots and math, but is also brash and emotionally stunted. There's also the Mexican immigrant who randomly speaks in (machine translated) Spanish and the other major black character who is ANOTHER criminal, uneducated and ignorant. That's why this isn't real diversity. It's barely any better than racist cartoons from the other side... you know, it's almost like both extremes are mirror images of each other. Terrible game + terrible presentation + terrible marketing + terrible response to criticism = easy target. It is what it is. At least they got EU money that could've been used to feed the homeless for months. Yay for equality!

It claims to be punkrock xD Hahaha hahaha Those morons know nothing bout Punk . Cringe

Because its abysmal dogshit. Saved you an hour.

I appreciate the neutral stance on this game. Very insightful and well researched. Certainly not my kind of game, but I am the very least pleasantly surprised that the characters we follow are actually characterized well. I kinda like Pax's design and the style of the game, plus the alt history is kinda cool. Maybe if I develop a taste for telltale-likes I'll give it a shot.