Windy Forecast

Map design is very similar to the first one. Very beautiful game visually. There’s some new interesting mechanics in this one with each individual character. But overall the storylines are not super interesting and the combat while initially intriguing wears thin and repetitive very quickly. I’m talking within the first two hours, it became tedious to get into fights. A little disappointed.

It’s like the plot and characters were created using mad libs. Either that or two many writers (or maybe to few?) There are just parts that don’t seem to make sense. Like there were some major plot or story arcs that were changed last minute or tossed out before it was published. For example: (spoilers) ~ How a character can see the monster clear as day out of a window and have zero reaction I kept thinking the whole game that he had way more knowledge about things or was going to be a plot twist or something… but no. ~ there was a ghost that was haunting the woods because why? In the game it was because the fire killed her son. But her son didn’t actually die. And she was aware of that fact because she asks you to protect him. ~ the matriarch of the Hackett family is extremely unpleasant but no history or explanation or story is given to either why or developing her character arc more. ~ the Hackett family simultaneously talks about not wanting others the get hurt or die but then also actively gets mad when people aren’t killed. ~ final example (that I will talk about, definitely not the last in the game) why is the Hacketts home so run down and dilapidated? They seemed to go for a real Bakers family vibe…but why? Also I wanted the emotional payoff at the end, but we never get it. :(