Sunday, January 23, 2022

Pathologic 2

 Pathologic 2 feels more like an art experiment than a game.  It paints a picture of a town that is hit by hard times and a murder, soon visited by the plague.

The story unfolds via one-time-one-choice-only dialog with townspeople, and I'm guessing the story arc is something you do over again because some of the  responses would make no sense in the context of knowing nothing.

Times are rough, travel is slow, superstition is high and the townsfolk are weird, but it's a brilliant bit of dystopia as you have to pick and choose who you help since you can't help everyone with a perfect depressing soundtrack to go along with.   Like a choir from a psych ward.

I might play it eventually to completion, but it's not much of a "play" and more of a graphic novel.




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