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Until Dawn (PS4)

I have A LOT to say.

The non-spoilery stuff:
-I did not get the best ending. I will DEFINITELY be replaying this at some point and try to get as close as possible, at least better than I did. (need to play LiS:BtS first though)
-Man it got more and more nerve-racking the further I got and the more and more afraid I got of getting people killed
-Ashley >= Chris > Mike > Josh > Emily > Sam > Matt > Jessica

The spoilery stuff:
I absolutely LOVED the horror elements to the game, and not just with the survival and the Wendigo and shit, and not even just with the screamers, but how they tailored it all to your specific fears, that was just nuts. The stuff with Dr. Hill was great. It added a lot to the personalized experience and at first reminded me of the narrator in the Rocky Horror Picture Show; imagine how surprised I was to see him actually be a part of the narrative.

Sam, Chris* and Matt survived. Mike, Ashley, Emily and Jessica died. Josh survived but began transforming into a Wendigo; not sure if there's a way to prevent that fate or if it is his best ending. I did hit a Chris death at one point (right after Flamethrower Guy died), but I hit reset with enough time to replay the scene ONLY because he was so high on my favorites list; if it were anybody else but him or Ashley I probably would have just let out some expletives and cut my losses and kept going. Also it was because I panicked and hit R1 instead of R2 to shoot, then when I got out of the status menu I was disoriented and didn't pull the trigger in time, so it was an innocent button mistake instead of poor decision-making or genuine incompetence. Mike, Ashley and Emily died in the fire. Fuck Emily for killing Ashley, I ought to bump her down on my list for that. Not sure how I could have saved Mike or Emily without getting Sam and Chris killed though. Jessica died because I was an imbecile and chose to run from the Wendigo in the mine.

A few of my Butterfly Effect things never came into play. I never got the conclusion to Sam and the baseball bat, and "Whose Side Are You On" never showed up at all.

-Ashley & Chris was by far the best and most developed relationship here, and the story I was most invested in. I really saw a lot of myself in Chris, and him having to constantly choose between Ashley's life and others', including his own, even if they were all psychs, added so much drama and really made the bond between them strong. Ashley was whiny but for some reason it worked. Her innocent curiosity and fear of pretty much everything made her the most fun character to play as and a great foil to the calm and methodical Chris, who she shared 90% of her screen time with. I was really rooting for them and my #1 priority was getting them both out alive if I possibly could. When I hit the aforementioned Chris death I actually hit the PS button, put my face in my hands for a solid two minutes and then said "let's see if resetting helps..." As I said before, if it were anyone but those two I would've just begrudgingly gone on (see - I could have done that with Jessica and didn't). In the ending inferno I was so upset to lose Ashley. I wanted to see them have a happy ending together.

-I hated Mike in the beginning for all the macho stuff with Matt and Emily and Jessica, but he actually became a sweetheart and the bravest of the bunch. He was also an extremely fun character to play as because he got himself into so much danger.

-Josh was naturally the most unique character in the game and his scenes often had me losing my shit with mindblownness. I actually in the back of my mind suspected him of surviving the sawmill scene though against all reasonable expectations. That just seemed way too fishy and I couldn't believe the game was actually going to make me choose between two people at that point. Never suspected him of being the psycho though.
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darkx