Session: Skate Sim - Paris Review (Quentin)
Positives :
- Great map : skate spots, statues, view points, architectures, signs...
- Size is adequate, despite what some say
- Crowd compatible : the map is made of big places so the pedestrians add immersion without being too much in your way
- SFX : church bells, sirens, seagulls, etc.
Negatives :
- no french-theme music : the first DLC that could really have used at least one for ambiance (and still no option to skip reggae songs lol)
- Every darn coffe-shop, restaurent, art gallery (compined!) have the same template for the inside ! I mean, it is not that hard to vary a little (even only the colour, furniture configuration or something...)
- A bit too much of "barricades" (closed street, or "route barrée" :p), including the métro parisien!
- Laziness in the details : The devs didn't even spell French language right, being in the mission script or in the map. For example, the street names (that are creatively funny to be fair, like Rue Gueule de bois (Hangover St.)), signs, menus and almost everything written are without accents ! When you read handwritten "cafe au lait" on a menu sign, it is super weird (+ The secret cat clue that is in the goddam trailer: "chat" is the male of the specie, so it is "le" and not "la", and you need a "-" before the pronoun)
- I'm getting fed up of Donovan lol at this point, it is getting old and a bit lazy ("oh sorry I wasn't filming because I was eating macarons", c'mon guys lol). I know we don't play session for the writing but it is getting ridiculous.
- Would be cool to see people seated at terrasses of cafés, but I'm nitpicking now... Can't wait to see this map in UE5!
Conclusion: overall a very nice map for French lovers and nostalgics for the skate spots, but could have done with a little more polish in the details