![]() ![]() Throw in an elaborate new location and a couple of exciting abilities that’ll help to decipher even the most secretive guests, for a cost, and it’s commendable that Big Bad Wolf aren’t afraid to mix things up a bit at this late stage. Things could likely have played out very differently, so your mileage may vary, but nonetheless all outcomes should at least feel whole. The segment in question had the scope to be intensely raw and emotional, dramatically concluding an arc between Louis and the two characters to which we’re the closest, but instead falls flat due to feeling monumentally rushed. Unfortunately, this does backfire in one pivotal scene that caps off the second of three chapters. Each outlandish revelation injects a hit of adrenaline and the result is a faster, often more engaging pacing without as many filler moments. “Aha!” moments start to bring things full circle as we approach the finale, now fully committing to the occult where the the previous episodes gradually began to lean in. Gameplay is simply a means to an end here, and the fact that we pondered what might happen next after stepping away to go about the day is testament to the fact that Burning Bridges succeeds in embedding its narrative hooks. Still, as a game squarely focused around its story, none of this is reason for a complete write off. On a personal level, as a completionist, perhaps most annoying of all was the achievement for hitting level 15 failing to unlock. The visual model for a sarcophagus was clearly open, yet dialogue referred to it as being closed, even requiring effort points to be spent on “opening” and further interacting with it, while at different stages throughout the episode characters became stuck in T-poses and couldn’t be interacted with as a result. Performance across previous episodes already wasn’t great - clunky controls, choppy frame rate, bad animation, missing lip-sync, questionable scripting and delivery - but those not-insignificant issues are now compounded by further errors. These narrative inconsistencies are forgivable to a point, but a worsened technical execution is hard to overlook. This isn’t out of politeness, instead only serving to make it transparent that they’d have delivered the same lines either way. Having undergone a blatant physical change, protagonist Louis should face constant difficult questions, really hammering home your failure, but, whilst he admittedly does on occasion, just as many characters pay the fact no attention. Picking right back up where things left off in Episode 3, there’s once again the potential to very literally wear the consequence of your actions, should you have reached the suboptimal conclusion. ![]()
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