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| 91 | 232430 | 18994984 | Gone Home seemed to have potential. In general it was pretty creepy and you expect something to eventually happen, but (sorry if this spoils it) nothing ever does. The game is probably better if you start off with low expectations... or just don't play it. The story is okay. You find clues and then the game usually confirms your suspicions with sporadic pieces of monologue. Sound and music-- there isn't much. There is mostly silence and the occasional thunder and I liked that. When the game's music does come up it's because you triggered it and it has these warm tones that make you feel kinda good. Then there's the punk cassettes. The punk genre fits a part of the story, although I found these particular songs to be barely tolerable. There isn't much to the gameplay. Not a whole lot of purpose to your inventory. You can interact with almost any object but there usually isn't any significance to it since there is barely any puzzle solving. It's a walking simulator. Overall my expectations were too high going into this game. I kept thinking something scary was going to happen or something hugely serious, like finding your sister hanging from a noose in the next room, walking in on your parent's beating one another, your Uncle's ghost chasing you, or stumbling upon your old neighbor who came back for his Street Fighter game and is now going insane chopping up your whole family while you were away relaxing across the world for a year. Seriously, how well off are you that you can go on vacation for an entire f*cking year? Anyway, at one point the game basically tells you straightforward that you could potentially walk in on your sister banging. And you're like wow! This game is nuts! This could be hilarious and interesting! Then the story turns and it doesn't happen. Like I said, nothing ever happens. Gone Home is really just a waste of a few hours. It's like reading a dull short book that you can move around in and barely interact with. I originally bought this game because a friend and I thought it looked hilarious, yet people were saying that it was good. Ya know how sometimes you just want to watch a movie that seems like it might be so corny that it becomes entertaining? I figured even if it's not funny apparently it should still be a good game based on people's reviews. I got it on sale. Thought we'd have a few light beers and a lighthearted time, but the game's funny-but-not-supposed-to-be moments are too few and far between and the serious parts are too frequent that you can't even enjoy the game in that cheap way either. So if you can't enjoy Gone Home in a serious way, and you can't enjoy it in a ridiculous way, then I have no idea why you'd still want to try to play this game. | 2021-03-14T05:52:10.158973 | 1 | 1 |