session 9.

Beyond Two Souls

This time I'm going to write about a videogame that just come out recently, the 8 of october in this year to be more specific. Developed by a  french videogame company named Quantic Dream.

This game has the particularity to use a lot of cinematics, so it`s more like a graphic adventure than a game with difficult gameplay, you can see how diferent genders begin to mix (in this case, cinema and videogames), even if it's not the first game to do it, it shows that this type of game it's still relevant to put on the table the discussion if videogames can be considerate like pieces of art.

The story it's about a girl-woman, named Jodie (in the game, you can see her at different periods of her life, when she was a kid, when she has to face adolescence, and then when she starts working being in a young adulthood), that has a mysterious power, this power seems to consist in a soul of someone named Aiden that it's trap in her body, linked to her, and has free will. This essence can see, move and hit things far from where Jodie is, so it looks like she has telekinesic powers or something like that. The interesting thing about Aiden is that the person who plays turns into Aiden, because you actually are the only one who can control him, and this creates the ilusion of actually being important part of the resolution and ending of the game (it has different endings depending on the decisions you take through the game), in this way it brakes the "fourth wall" 'cause when Jodie talks to Aiden, she talks to you.  

The game has recieved a lot of critics, because It's not actually a fun game to play, it's more to watch it than interacting with it (in the sense of using the joystick/controller, in most of the game you can't separate from it, in this game you use it between the cinematics), but the fact that it's not fun in the way of "laughing" doesn't make it bad, actually it's really interesting in the plot itself, you can see a lot of controversial topics, like bulling or if it's ethic from the part of the C.I.A. to use her has a tool, even though it's the only place were she could find friends...

I think that this game it's great, at least the things I've seen so far are really interesting. Besides, they really took care in details like the modeling of characters, they use real actors to make the faces and bodies. Jodie it's based in the actrees Ellen Page.

If you have time, you should check it.