#poring over the files and the event archives trying to piece the mystery together

[classicjdog]

13 sentinels is absolutely positively batshit fucking insane

just finished the game last night and WOW is it fucking good

#throughout the final stretch of the game i found myself almost avoiding or stalling on making progress cause i didn't want it to be over #cause experiencing this game's story and all the twists and turns #constantly trying and inevitably completely failing to figure where the fuck this is all going #poring over the files and the event archives trying to piece the mystery together #watching old cutscenes back because you're trying to figure out some specific thing #and the rare times where watching that cutscene back didn't help with what you were originally there for #but it helped you figure out something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT #the even rarer times (at least for me lol) where you ACTUALLY figure out something pretty big just before the game explains it #just playing the story and actively trying to piece it all together is one of the most joyously fun experiences i've ever had with a game #the amount of times this story had me staring at the tv with my jaw on the floor #or throwing my hand over my mouth to stifle a yell because it was like 3 in the morning #like it's kind of insane how much new information the game is constantly bombarding you with #and yet it actually wraps up in a super satisfying way imo #and also the freedom the game gives you in regards to the order that you consume the story is soooo wild to me #like the order in which big reveals are made can change soooo drastically depending on whose stories you go through first #like there are so many scenes where like #if i hadn't seen this other specific scene from another character's story first #i would have been completely fucking baffled by what i was watching #oh and also i was watching a playthrough of the game while i was playing through it #woolieversus to be specific #being very careful to stop anytime they started something that i hadn't got to yet #which happened pretty often because again #you have so much freedom in the order you play through the story chapters #but following along with another playthrough definitely helped me get a better grasp on a lot of things #and obviously it helped me retain information so much better than i would have on my own #and tbh just listening to them bounce ideas off each other and thinking to myself about the theories and shit they'd posit #that was a lot of fun too #so yeah shout outs to woolie and reggie #i never would've heard of or tried out this game if it wasn't for them #i had more shit to say but i'm running out of room in the tags and i'm hella tired cause i haven't slept yet so i'll just leave it there