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[Elektro Demon]

https://www.pcgamer.com/as-dusk-fal...-designer-of-heavy-rain-and-beyond-two-souls/

At Microsoft's Xbox Showcase today, we saw a reveal trailer for As Dusk Falls, an "interactive drama" from Interior Night, a new studio led by Caroline Marchal, formerly of Quantic Dream. Marchal acted as lead designer on Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls.

The game follows two families "trapped in a hostage situation" in the southwestern US, and becomes "a sprawling epic about how people grow and change over decades," says the studio.



At least in the trailer, As Dusk Falls is depicted in (seemingly) digitally painted still images, with some animation. First impression: The art's a bit smooth and clean for what's apparently a dramatic story about generational violence.


There's not much more about the game online—the studio's official site hasn't been updated.

 

[hyperbertha]

Looks nowhere near the budget David Cage gets.

 

[Elektro Demon]

Looks nowhere near the budget David Cage gets.

It does look a bit too cheap.

 

[Mistershine.]

"game"

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Looked neat, but is it basically a visual novel?

 

[Silent Viper]

It does look a bit too cheap.

Yup its indie

 

[jshackles]

"game"

"interactive drama"

 

[Kadayi]

I dig the approach.

 

[Myths]

Is that Tobey Macguire with the gun?

 

[StylishMGTOW]

This is Xbox's Volcano High.

 

[Soleil rouge]

From the lead designer of Heavy Rain...I'm hyped. Agreed that the art style looks cheap though.

 

[Alan Silvestro]

Rotoscoping everywhere!

 

[Punished Miku]

Looks original, I'll give it that.

 

[gela94]

Could be interesting.

 

[Cleared_Hot]

"I got your letters" *DRUM BEAT, TITLE CARD!!!*

 

[kiphalfton]

Really bad frame rate. Expected more from XSX.

 

[IbizaPocholo]

As Dusk Falls - ESRB

As Dusk Falls - Mature 17+ - This is a narrative adventure game in which players follow Vince Walker and Jay Holt and their family stories in Arizona during the 1990s.

www.esrb.org

This is a narrative adventure game in which players follow Vince Walker and Jay Holt and their family stories in Arizona during the 1990s. As players progress through each family's storyline, they are presented with various dialogue and action choices that influence the outcome/progression of the story. Some choices require players to follow on-screen prompts that can lead to instances of violence: a deputy shot and killed by a gunman; a character shot in the head by a police sniper; a character strangled; a man hung by a rope. Action sequences are accompanied by occasional gunfire and blood stains on characters' bodies and clothing. The game contains some suggestive material: a depiction of a foot fetish magazine; characters making sexual jokes (e.g., “…so Bill turns to Hillary and says, 'But I thought the Gaza Strip was a topless bar'”; “Hear that?...He can't get it up...Says he's got hard wood...Maybe you need a cold shower.”); a bedroom sequence in which moaning/heavy breathing is heard. During the course of the game, characters are shown smoking marijuana and inhaling aersol fumes to get high. A teenage character is also depicted drinking beer. The words “f**k” and “sh*t” are heard in the game.

 

[remember_spinal]

this game looks really cringey

 

[Kiddo Cabbusses]

this game looks really cringey

What were you expecting from a game that rides on David Cage's pedigree?

 

[Shmunter]

Interactive comic book? What happened.

 

[remember_spinal]

What were you expecting from a game that rides on David Cage's pedigree?

I was at least expecting a game, this looks like an a animated cutscene like the ones they use in witcher