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Finished Siren Blood Curse. It's alright. A more accessible remake of the original game, but lacking much of the ambience and weirdness that made the first Siren a classic.

Horrible frame-rate issues with sightjacking sadly hurt the experience.

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Finished Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. This barely had gameplay. Trudged through the 'follow the light' banality for the surprisingly profound, moving story. As a walking simulator it impressed me more than Layers of Fear. Deeply hauntological. Would appeal to fans of weird lit. Hard to call it a game, but it was an experience of value.

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Personally, I preferred the previous effort from the same studio; 'Dear Esther'. While both games are pleasant, if thoroughly melancholic, experiences, boasting wonderful musical scores from Jessica Curry, I thought 'Dear Esther' benefitted from a more breath-taking setting. Something about the relative wilderness of a wind swept Hebridean island, replete with crumbling cottages and mouldering sea vessels, stirs me more than the balmy climes of a sunny English village. Both games are well worth investigating though, if anybody fancies an interactive experience rather than a game.

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There isn't enough to do in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture for it to be a great 'game' in the traditional sense. If I had to follow clues to figure out where to go instead of following annoying lights it would be so much better. Still, the emotional element worked on me so well that I am satisfied if viewing it not as a game, but as its own experience. Such beautiful music and quality writing.

I shall look up Dear Esther. I got a PS Now 7 day trial to play Siren Blood Curse, so I'm trying to cram in as many curious games as I can before it ends.

Tempted to pick up a PS2 just for Siren 2.

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Dear Esther features the same style of 'gameplay' - if we can call it that - as Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, but where you are prompted to follow a particular path in the latter game, the former game allows you to roam freely about the island. The story of Dear Esther will unfold no matter what order you visit the key features of the island; it's all just a matter of covering all the terrain.

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Um, I just started Deadly Premonition. Now crying with laughter. Absolutely speechless at this. I think I'm going to really like this one. What the hell am I playing?

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After playing The Last Express for years, I finally got the good ending. What an incredible game. Now let's hope Paul Verhoeven finally develops the live-action version.

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The ending was kind of bittersweet if not inconclusive for me.

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The original game, while good, has a huge learning curve. It's close to 20 hours long too. I'm tempted to install it again on my PS4. I really liked what they did with the facial animations.

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Film of Siren looked pretty good, apparently based on the second game. First two were called Forbidden Siren in UK. I never got far into them.