You Shot Me? I'm Telling Mom.
Jul. 9th, 2023 10:10 amAs I seem to be on a Supermassive horror game kick at the moment, I've watched theRadBrad's Let's Play of The Quarry, the spiritual successor to Until Dawn!
The trouble with Supermassive games is that Until Dawn offered me Mike Munroe, the perfect character, and Mike/Sam, the perfect pairing, and no characters or interactions in subsequent games have quite been able to measure up. Mike's an obnoxious but basically good-hearted guy who makes horrible mistakes and struggles with guilt over them; he fights desperately to save his friends; he befriends a wolf; he has chemistry with pretty much anyone he interacts with; he gets his hand caught in a bear trap and cuts his own fingers off; what more do you need in a character?
While I did have more investment in Mike and Mike/Sam than in any aspect of The Quarry, though, I do like the Quarry kids! I took a quick liking to Abi (she's quiet, she's compassionate, she seems reasonably level-headed, she has cute little bat wings on her backpack), and over the course of the game almost all of them won me over. I didn't passionately love any of the characters, but I was invested in their survival.
( Thoughts on The Quarry. )
I enjoyed The Quarry a fair bit! Supermassive continues to be a great videogame developer if you like stories about a bunch of people going through bizarre and traumatic experiences together, even if I find their games too stressful to play them myself.
I'm not experiencing the drive to write fanfiction right now, but I'll think about it; the ending was a little abrupt and it definitely felt like there was room to follow up on the characters.
The trouble with Supermassive games is that Until Dawn offered me Mike Munroe, the perfect character, and Mike/Sam, the perfect pairing, and no characters or interactions in subsequent games have quite been able to measure up. Mike's an obnoxious but basically good-hearted guy who makes horrible mistakes and struggles with guilt over them; he fights desperately to save his friends; he befriends a wolf; he has chemistry with pretty much anyone he interacts with; he gets his hand caught in a bear trap and cuts his own fingers off; what more do you need in a character?
While I did have more investment in Mike and Mike/Sam than in any aspect of The Quarry, though, I do like the Quarry kids! I took a quick liking to Abi (she's quiet, she's compassionate, she seems reasonably level-headed, she has cute little bat wings on her backpack), and over the course of the game almost all of them won me over. I didn't passionately love any of the characters, but I was invested in their survival.
( Thoughts on The Quarry. )
I enjoyed The Quarry a fair bit! Supermassive continues to be a great videogame developer if you like stories about a bunch of people going through bizarre and traumatic experiences together, even if I find their games too stressful to play them myself.
I'm not experiencing the drive to write fanfiction right now, but I'll think about it; the ending was a little abrupt and it definitely felt like there was room to follow up on the characters.
