UNTIL DAWN was a pretty fun game, a game with many different choices and pathways to choose from, a game that sure keeps you guessing, with many twists and turns along the way. It was a fun ride.
The premise of Until Dawn takes place in the aftermath of a tragedy. Without spoiling anything, it begins with a bunch of young adults who, while staying in a remote cabin ski lodge, learn that their nasty, thoughtless prank has turned horrendously tragic in the blink of an eye. Seven youths (Chris, Sam, Ashley, Mike, Jessica, Emily and Matt) find they are invited back to the place of the mysterious tragedy (of friends' Hannah and Beth) by their friend Josh, exactly one year later, to memorialize the loss. But things take a turn for the worse and nothing is what it seems.
So...while there are jumpscares, it wasn't all that bad. As a horror game/movie fan, I'm not super big into typical jumpscares as they always come off like a cheap parlor tricks and feel more annoying than actually scary, but there was a good deal of other kinds of suspense and terror going on here as well, so it kinda smoothed out the clunkiness of the jumpscares in my opinion. It wasn't just cheesy jumpscares, but mystery, terror, suspense, gore, and creepy ambience. It gave an overall feeling of weirdness that really worked for me. I'm glad I kept going. The visuals/sounds were great, story was intriguing, characters unique and overall atmosphere spot on. And best of all, the mystery kept my wheels turning the whole time.
If you like mysteries, walking simulators, choice-driven, narrative-driven, horror thriller games, with a good throwback to the teen horror movies haydays of old...then you'll really enjoy this. You never really know till the end what is quite going on...Psychos? Monsters? Aliens? Paranormal Event? Who knows? It's all fun and games till you don't survive Until Dawn...
STORY: 8/10 GAMEPLAY: 9/10 GRAPHICS: 10/10 ART DESIGN: 9/10 MUSIC: 8/10 OVERALL RATING: 8.5.
The premise of Until Dawn takes place in the aftermath of a tragedy. Without spoiling anything, it begins with a bunch of young adults who, while staying in a remote cabin ski lodge, learn that their nasty, thoughtless prank has turned horrendously tragic in the blink of an eye. Seven youths (Chris, Sam, Ashley, Mike, Jessica, Emily and Matt) find they are invited back to the place of the mysterious tragedy (of friends' Hannah and Beth) by their friend Josh, exactly one year later, to memorialize the loss. But things take a turn for the worse and nothing is what it seems.
So...while there are jumpscares, it wasn't all that bad. As a horror game/movie fan, I'm not super big into typical jumpscares as they always come off like a cheap parlor tricks and feel more annoying than actually scary, but there was a good deal of other kinds of suspense and terror going on here as well, so it kinda smoothed out the clunkiness of the jumpscares in my opinion. It wasn't just cheesy jumpscares, but mystery, terror, suspense, gore, and creepy ambience. It gave an overall feeling of weirdness that really worked for me. I'm glad I kept going. The visuals/sounds were great, story was intriguing, characters unique and overall atmosphere spot on. And best of all, the mystery kept my wheels turning the whole time.
If you like mysteries, walking simulators, choice-driven, narrative-driven, horror thriller games, with a good throwback to the teen horror movies haydays of old...then you'll really enjoy this. You never really know till the end what is quite going on...Psychos? Monsters? Aliens? Paranormal Event? Who knows? It's all fun and games till you don't survive Until Dawn...
STORY: 8/10 GAMEPLAY: 9/10 GRAPHICS: 10/10 ART DESIGN: 9/10 MUSIC: 8/10 OVERALL RATING: 8.5.