This game is going to to be ridiculous and terrible, unless someone has wrested creative control from David Cage in the same way you would gently take a mouse away from Lennie Small. It doesn't matter that the trailer is cut together really well. It doesn't matter that this is a Star Wars game. Master Anakin, I am beginning to think that the real monster. Remember how you could give your group of political activist robots the slogan 'I have a dream', yet Cage insisted the game was just about androids? Or, as my friend Chris text me this morning: 'I want R2D2 to do a heartfelt speech about race'. I will never stop talking about how bad the writing was on Detroit. Detroit is a game in which a robot character who has been tortured by a human turns to camera and says 'who is the real monster?!' out loud.

So that sounds like the most recent QD games, right enough.īut those are the very worst QD games, aren't they? The problem with Quantic Dream's games, especially the recent ones, is that they are - and I say this with all the love my heart can muster - awful terrible, no good messes with some of the worst, most facile writing you will ever experience in the medium of video games. According to the official site, Eclipse is set during the High Republic era and I am told it will 'build upon Quantic Dream's expertise in delivering deeply branching narratives', with an emphasis on player choice affecting the story. They are very adept at making games that play well, and look good while they play.Īnd this Eclipse is going to be a story-heavy game, right? QD don't make combat games, so you're not going to be actually being a jedi like in KOTOR (although, on the Star Wars Eclipse Bingo Card that writes itself, one square will definitely have 'QTE lightsaber fight' on it). And let me be clear: I am inordinately fond of Quantic Dream games. But well all have to remember that after the screams die down there is a faint whisper of 'David Cage is involved in this somewhere.' Imagine his glee at being allowed to work with an IP that canonically has the choice between evil and good baked into it.īecause making games that look cool has never been Quantic Dream's problem! Look at Bryan Dechart licking up robot blood in Detroit, and be amazed! Then remember the rest of the content of Detroit, and grow concerned.

I got excited and watched it a few times in a row. it all screams not only 'Star Wars!' but 'well cool!'. The pounding chorus of drums, the bustling alien market, the asteroid fields, the ships, the battling jedi.

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