So, thoughts after episode 3
- I really like how they hint at things that are relevant in the future. The story does an excellent job of making random asides that are important later. Im sure Ive missed a few relevant ones, but picking up on stuff like Kyrie has a daughter and wondering what happened to her turning into what is apparently a main character is kind of cool
- Having said that, I think the mysteries that are obviously holes are a bit weaker. I thought episode 3 was a bit more straight forward in this regard where you could see how Eva lined up to be the criminal (Which makes sense given Eva wasnt a good Beatrice) but I feel weve spent hours talking about locked rooms that wont be relevant for 50 more hours or so, and they arent the fun kind of mystery that is solvable. Just kind of a hole that will never be answered until it inevitably comes up again. Hope I remember it.
- Which honestly brings me to my biggest complaint, holy crap does this game need to be edited down. I feel like you could cut hours out here without really removing the integrity of what you are doing. Some of these love story conversations from Shannon/Kannon seem to just last forever and keep being brought up! The whole preamble with George and Shannon was fine but we keep going back to that and it just doesnt seem to be necessary at all. This game is already way too long. An editor would have helped.
Probably going to keep going but if chapter 4 is really slower than 3 this is going to be tough. I was struggling through 3 until Eva got to the game board (Those last 2 hours or so were great)
I dont know if I can take another 5 hours of exposition before someone dies again