Beyond Two Souls

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“I was born with a peculiar gift- an ability to see things no one has ever done before.” This inspirational, heavily toned quote illustrated an arduous adventure by the heroine to discover her truest form of self.

It is too hard for players to resist the game’s charm with a mysterious yet captivating opening quote.

And the game that this writer is talking about is Beyond Two Souls- a game produced exclusively for the PS3 system and now PS4

Beyond Two Souls is a successful sequel for the previous popular game Heavy Rain, produced by Quantic Dream as an interactive adventure game.

So with this release on PS4, can Beyond Two Souls continue to deliver emotions to first-timers and those who played it?

In most Beyond Two Souls interviews, David Cage always mentions the word “emotions” for this game.

And definitely, it delivers; this writer can experience the atmosphere the game wishes to provide behind the stories embedded in Beyond Two Souls.

With Beyond Two Souls, Aiden is the key to Jodie’s adventure.

In general, Beyond Two Souls playstyle is similar to other interactive adventure games. You have everything on the menu: cutscenes, conversations, interactive through series of choices, and those choices will directly affect the character development and how the story would end up.

However, what makes Beyond Two Souls special is Aiden, an entity following Jodie.

The player will get a chance to be transferred everywhere, between Aiden and Jodie to solve riddles, find a way to overturn obstacles, or just simply ordinary tasks like lulling baby Jodie, healing, hypnotizing and protecting Jodie from enemies. You can also rewind anyone’s past to experience their feelings.

The game’s versatility comes from a constantly changing plot that depends on the player’s actions.

Even the lines the player picks in the game’s conversation can somehow affect Jodie’s development.

That is the selling point since it made this writer eager to discover different routes for the game. How would his actions affect Jodie and Aiden?

When talking about Beyond Two Souls, we can’t forget to mention the game’s choices because it has immense depth.

There will be difficult choices, and choices bring tons of emotions through characters’ conversations. Players can see themselves reflected through the game’s conversation.

Besides, the game also possesses actions packed cutscene alongside QTEs or Quick Time Events.

However, there are differences in the game playstyle. Instead of pushing X, O, triangle and square, players need to guess through the heroine’s movement.

For example, when Jodie punches right, the screen will reduce speed in a short period, the player needs to push the left analog to right and vice versa for other Jodie’s movements.

That is a challenging addition; it requires a quick evaluation from the player. Luckily, the producer understands this challenge for players’ experience, so adding another option is revealing buttons for players to push.

The player can freely change this through the “option” tab of the game.

There are many cutscenes and moments in Beyond two Souls since the game clearly illustrates the character’s emotions and characteristics.

Thus, besides Jodie, she can meet other characters with a different life, struggles, or honey-sweet relationship, or Jodie’s thoughts between life and death loss and survival.

Those moments created an emotional link between players with Jodie, Aiden, and other characters in the game. It shows what Jodie has come through, the impact of the player on Jodie, and how other character impacts Jodie and Aiden. All this helps us to understand more the emotional flow the game wishes to deliver.

Beyond Two Souls uses Quantic Dream’s new engine. That improves the game’s visuals and effects compared to Heavy Rain.

Quantic Dream does not hesitate in flexing its immersive visual right from the beginning of the game.

Sometimes it just white rains, sandstorms, deserts to action scenes, explosions that do not reduce the flame rate.

Along with the application of advanced ‘motion capture,’ the company also spent heavily and invited actress Ellen Page to play the role of Jodie.
Blowing the most honestly powerful soul to every moment in the game, with great detail about the character body

All emotions are portrayed surprisingly spontaneously.

As it was re-released on PS4, Quantic Dream also improved visual details from characters to surroundings, lighting effects, and object shadows.

Quantic Dream has almost gone a lot further than the previous products; everything in the game is carefully trimmed, bringing a very real atmosphere that is equally sparkling and evocative.

However a bit disappointing and depending on the different player’s perception – that the game does not remove the two black borders on the bottom and lock frames at 30 frames per second.

And to make a perfect picture, we can’t help but mention the sound of the game.

As a company that is not unfamiliar and promises to bring an emotional journey Shirley and also, of course, Beyond Two Souls will certainly do it

Flattering background music tracks a mix with songs of excitement, urge magic, and mystery players will fully explain everything when entering the game. The soundtrack of the game is molded under the hands of Normand Corbeil (Heavy Rain, Fahrenheit); unfortunately, he passed away then it was not completed.

Lorne Balfe (assassin’s Creed 3, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, Kung Fu Panda 3) continued to be performed with soundtracks later.

So players can be completely assured of the quality that the game will bring.

Aside from the captivating soundtrack, the voice acting plays a huge part.

Famous actors such as Ellen Page, Willem Dafoe, Characters in the game like stepping into the game from real life.

Conversations are sharpened and portrayed very authentically. Sometimes thorny, sometimes painful, some are intense.

The more the players’ emotions sublimate, making the game more attractive and sweet
The plot of Beyond Two Souls is very good, emotional but they have unsmoothed and unnecessary details

That makes the game feel a little dragged, unnecessary stretching. May cause some; please feel uncomfortable because of the slow progress of the plot.

Although the QTE variation game is relatively new and the plot, many segments do not need to be applied to QTE. That makes the game feels forceful
in many stages partly affects the experience for the player.

The controls in the game have been better compared to heavy rain when it is no longer weird, but sometimes the responsiveness of the rules, especially the movement, is not smooth, and sometimes it is delayed when the player’s press.

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