There are many games which try to be story driven experiences. Games like The Last Of Us bring us true emotions while beating its campaign. Then there are games like Beyond: Two Souls that try to be deep and emotional but end up being confusing and not worth your time.

Beyond: Two Souls is the newest game from Quantic Dream, the creators of games like Heavy Rain and Indigo Prophesy. In Beyond you play as a girl named Jodie, who was taken from her parents at birth and put into a program for paranormal investigations.

The two major characters in the game are Jodie (Ellen Page) and the man who raised Jodie, Nathan (Willem DaFoe). This blows my mind that these two fairly-good actors would do this kind of thing. It gives them publicity and the acting in the game is fine, however the story of the game is what is really wrong with this game.

Jodie goes through an experience when she was young that connects a ghost, Aiden, to her. The ghost follows her around through out the game and helps her on her missions.The experience she goes through does not make any sense because it happens every day, in real life, without people being attached to ghost.

Obviously, the story is what matters most in this kind of game. Beyond features no multiplayer or any other type of mode than single player. This is not bad but it limits replayability

The story of this game is absolutely infuriating because it jumps to different points in her life without any explanation of what is going on. Had I been able to play it without the jumping around the timeline, it might have felt a lot more meaningful.

Also, over half of the missions you play are absolutely meaningless and don’t affect the plot in any way. There is literally a level where all you do is have dinner.

There are around 20 missions in the game. Most missions play well but do not connect to each other. There is a mission that is in the Mojave dessert where you fight an ancient Native American god. This would be cool if it went further into the mythology of the Native Americans, but it does not. That entire level is to set up a character that they only use once later.

There is also a character, Nathan Dawkins, who was good throughout the game until the end when he becomes an enemy. This would be fine if it were not for the weird mixed up order that you play the game through. Because of this, he feels bipolar because of his sudden changes in mood.

This game’s story does not get cool or interesting until the ending. There are 24 possible endings and they are all terrible. A few of these are direct rips of the movie Terminator.

Stealing movie plot points seems to be a running joke at Quantic Dream as this game steals ideas from movies like Carrie, The Unborn and Terminator.

If you want to play a good game that is story based play The Last Of Us or Alan Wake. This Alan Wake game offers none of the subtlety or story of these games.

This game is a waste of your time and money, I would advise you to play something other than Beyond:Two Souls.

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