I finished it now. What can I say, I don't like the direction they took at all:
- Not a single puzzle in this chapter. It is all just a long railroad/exposition.
- As we all feared, they took the plot twists from the third chapter and went full retardo.
most of the characters are demons, the main character is a demon, you even get demonic superpowers! The whole plot about the al azif/necronomicon seems to have vanished and isn't mentioned at all. You are now a demon's son doing demon things.
Not only that, but:
the game moves away from the nice premise of investigation and intrigue in a mansion. They revealed too much too soon, and if you add that with the fact that what they revealed was retarded, they basically ruined the game before the last chapter
The only positive thing I can say is that some of the decisions you took did come back. No major effect on the plot or anything, but I did get a few scenes and expositions I wouldn't have gotten otherwise had I not kept some characters alive.
Basically:
I take back my offer to review it. Am disappointed.
Hmmmm, so might that be the reason for you swimming in consumables?I personally wasted a lot of playing time going back and forth trying to enter into rooms and etc to not miss any encounters or items.
I still recommend to give it a try, but maybe not at current price. And yes, I am still intrigued about what is going to happen in the final episode, even though I'm way way less excited than I was at the end of Episode 3.
I haven't played anything this strange for a long, long, while.
Cue the Face That Never Remembered. I like everything I've read about Big Bad Wolf, but they are a subsidiary of Cyanide, and Cyanide was recently bought out by Bigben Interactive. Focus Home will be the publisher for The Council Season One until the season ends with episode 5, but moving forward they'll be under the Bigben umbrella. In case the implication isn't clear, Focus is a good publisher and Bigben is bad, so any future stuff in this universe is likely to be ruined unless BBW goes their own way somehow.Then again, Big Bad Wolf has said that The Council is merely the introductory chapter of a universe they are trying to build. If you let go of that twist and consider the entire thing as that, it's not really that bad and it remains intriguing. They can do many things with that universe : strategy, full fledged RPGs, more classic point & clicks, etc.
Well, isthereanydeal.com failed to alert me, but the game is currently 40% off on Steam.
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