It's a game I enjoyed, but I'm not sure it's a game I needed.
It's great to have Max Caulfield back, but I'm not sure she ever needed to be in the first place. A somewhat unnecessary-feeling sequel that still manages to tell a compelling story, if not a little messy and underbaked.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.
It's not the only audio issue in the game, either. I don't think my volume buttons have ever seen so much use from a single videogame. The sound mixing is wildly inconsistent—cutscene conversations ramped up in volume until my speakers were vibrating, while trying to eavesdrop on another timeline's conversation or even a discussion between characters in my current timeline was quiet as a mouse.
Small throwbacks like the storm and voice snippets of Chloe's unfortunate bathroom encounter with Nathan Prescott are dropped in occasionally, in a way I never feel overstays its welcome. Later segments where Max explores her trauma more deeply were impactful moments, just the right amount of punch where I felt like Deck Nine wasn't leaning too heavily on Don't Nod's work.
Ultimately, though, I feel like a lot of these characters didn't have time to fully develop. I wonder if having two timelines—and subsequently two branching character developments—hampered the story more than helping it. Coupled with Double Exposure's parallel narrative arc being a little too similar and on the nose for my liking at times, and I have to wonder if we needed a sequel at all.
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