Until Dawn Remake game review (PS5): Zero stars

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Let's face it: It isn't an Until Dawn game if it doesn't have the legendary O' Death song, and this remake has replaced the intro music. They are butchering the classics, as Homer Simpson famously said. And what is the point of making this remake? It's totally unnecessary.

A group of teenagers go back to the lodge where something terrible happened a year ago. A good idea? Surely. Will they survive... until dawn?

 

 

The Animals of Until Dawn 

But the game does have many animals. 

 

 

The player has the option to even hurt animals (a squirrel and birds), but IF you want these human characters to survive the night, it might be better to not to do that. 

 

 

I returned to this game after a long pause, and then the first thing I encountered was a badly hurt deer. The options were to either kill it or comfort it. Either way it's not possible to save it, you can only watch it suffer and die. I won't put a screencap of that of course.

 

 

Until Dawn: Wolf

A part of Mike's story is a wolf. Mike first encounters this wolf in chapter 5.

 

 

There's even a trophy for saving the wolf, called The Skillful Wolf Man: Mike kept the wolf alive throughout the Sanatorium. 

 

 

It starts with a simple thing: Do not kick the wolf. 

 

 

Then give the good boy a bone.

 

 

 

 

Until Dawn Remake gameplay (PS5)

 

 

 

By the way, men worry me.

 

 

Until Dawn Remake is currently free to play on Playstation Plus Extra.

 

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 Endings Spoilers

I have written before about my hate for the game Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 1. Compared to that I must admit that Tape 2 was a pleasant surprise.

 

1. It was shorter. It only took me only a couple of hours in one sitting.

2. All my dreams about a bully getting his comeuppance became true.

Quite early in Tape 2 I started wishing for something that seemed impossible: That the bully Corey would be thrown into the Abyss. I never thought that the game would take that path, but it did.

 

 

 

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 Endings 

There are several different endings to Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2, but they all have one thing in common: In all of them Corey ends up in the Abyss. Only the way he ends up there differs.

 

 

In my ending all the four girls pushed Corey into the Abyss. It was beautiful, it was perfect. When Kat was beating up Corey and I as Swann had the option to go beat him aswell, of course I chose that option.

Already before I had stabbed Corey on the back with a knife. The knife I had been looking at for the whole game, hoping to be able to do with it just that.

But of course my ending was the worst one, because in it in the present day Swann ended up alone. Both Nora and Autum left before opening the box. Such "friends."

 

What was in the box? 

The whole purpose to play the game through for me was to find out what is in the box. And the answer is so boring: Just some of Kat's mementos from the summer of 1995. The ones that were thrown in the Abyss. How did they get back to our reality? Who send the box? It's supposed to be Dylan, but why did she do it 27 years later?

 

 

 

Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 3?

Some people wish for a sequel. They feel that many questions were left unanswered, and many mysteries unsolved. In my opinion revealing the mysteries often ruins everything. Some mysteries are better left as mysteries. The explanation to them might not be reasonable at all.

 

The Animals of Tape 2

The best part of Tape 2 for me? The Prison Break. The breaking free the deers, especially Gertie. And you even get to pet him! And the deers end up saving the girls from the bully!

 

 

And of course the cat Snowy was still there, familiar from Tape 1.

 

 

So the animals were adorable and great, and a bully got what he deserved! For me Tape 2 of Lost Records: Bloom & Rage (affiliate link) was far more enjoyable than Tape 1.