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Wednesday, February 5, 2025 11:45:26 PM

This War of Mine: Stories - Fading Embers Review (FeslieD)

It's a decent story with interesting scenario and some nice details, but the player experience can be awful. Below is the grumbling.
Well, I understand TWoM features tough choices and moral dilemmas, which by the way I like.
But it's a game with no manual saves. This expansion makes players play 6 hours (or more if you retry), puts two kind-of-disgusting ending choices in front of them, and implies all the time there may be a better choice, you shall probably wait for it. So I became the dumbass who trusted, waiting to the last day. There it "warned" me: "There is no good choice you waited, choose quickly or fail. Oh, sorry, it's too late to make any choices now and no saves to load. You want to retry? Go back from Day 1 and repeat the boring gameplay for another 6 hours." Now I was successfully disgusted, more so than any linear plot tragedies and even forcing choice games. Good for you, 11 bit.