Beyond: Two Souls (PS3)

**IlliniM1ke** · 06-13-2013, 01:04 AM

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Originally posted by mrprice33

I played this for like 30 minutes at E3. It was not good.

Did you play Heavy Rain? If so did you enjoy it?

If not I'm not surprised you wouldn't like this game, if you were a fan of Heavy Rain though what made this so bad?

**mrprice33** · 06-13-2013, 01:10 AM

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Originally posted by CardsFan27

Did you play Heavy Rain? If so did you enjoy it?

If not I'm not surprised you wouldn't like this game, if you were a fan of Heavy Rain though what made this so bad?

I liked Heavy Rain but didn't love it. I really liked Indigo Prophecy.

I'll post my hands-on. I go into good detail there. http://www.vgrevolution.com/2013/06/...ouls-hands-on/

**HustlinOwl** · 09-05-2013, 09:39 AM

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**HustlinOwl** · 09-05-2013, 10:58 AM

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We are excited to announce that public demo for BEYOND: Two Souls will be available to download on the PSN from October 2nd!
— PlayStation Access (@PSAccess) September 5, 2013

**Flawless** · 09-16-2013, 04:47 PM

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Eurogamer

And make no mistake, Aiden is powerful. Objects you can interact with are marked with a blue spot, and you can focus on this by holding R1. The thumbsticks can then be manipulated to affect the object - or person - in front of you. Pulling the sticks down and releasing them results in a shove. Electronic items can be scrambled, or you can possess people, making them walk around until shaken from their fugue state by confused co-workers.

It's a wonderful scene, and a lot of fun, allowing you to play the mischievous poltergeist before escalating the scenario, twisting scientific curiosity into abject panic as you wreak increasingly violent havoc. It also offers a lot more freedom than Heavy Rain ever did. Aiden's roaming is constrained - it hurts Jodie if he gets too far away and you can only interact with specific objects at certain times - but it's undeniably liberating to float through walls and freak people out.

Game Informer

Beyond is at its best when it's focusing on Jodie's emotional plight. Ellen Page's natural performance with the tone of her voice changing depending on the situation enhances the emotions that Jodie's feeling. Some of the more grounded scenes are hard to watch, such as seeing Jodie get teased as a young girl, called "monster" and "witch," and watching her parents, especially her father, abandon her. All the while, the innocent young girl never asked for any of this. Each time she gets called a vulgar name, it's striking, even making me feel as if I was the one being punished. The empathy for Jodie is created perfectly, and the game even challenges you with how far you'll go for her. In one memory, I had the choice to take revenge on the teasing kids by using Aiden or I could just walk away. Either way you play the scene, the pain echoes.

I'll admit I walked into this skeptical. While I adored Heavy Rain, I had some issues with its plot holes and some of the characters. However, I came away from the first hours of Beyond: Two Souls much more positive than I expected. Sometimes the narrative tried to manipulate my emotions with over-the-top scenes that I found hard to believe, but those were few and far between. On the other side, sometimes scenes get it so right that you almost forgive those few blemishes, like if you decide to let teenage Jodie go in for a kiss. Hopefully, the rest of the tale is as satisfying as these opening moments, because I can't wait to see how the rest of the story unfolds.

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**thaSLAB** · 09-24-2013, 08:53 PM

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FYI, GameStop is doing an Early Access Demo for this game through Facebook...

(Limited Time)

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**Flawless** · 10-01-2013, 11:14 PM

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I know it's a controlled experience, but visually this is absolutely stunning, particularly the third segment in the demo. I thought the controls were a little better and the performances not as stilted as Heavy Rain, but it's only a small slice of the game to go on.

**MachoMyers** · 10-06-2013, 11:28 PM

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This totally snuck up on me, I can't believe this is out this week. I absolutely loved Heavy Rain so looking forward to this.

**Brandwin** · 10-07-2013, 08:55 AM

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I’ll probably wait on this one. I need to finish GTA main story first and I want to spend some time with online, when and if the kinks get worked out. I also want to play some of the BF4 beta. I’ll wait for reviews and depending on everyones feedback, will depend on when I pick it up.

**LionsFanNJ** · 10-07-2013, 09:19 AM

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On probably going to hit the red box for this since I'm broke and can't afford any new games. I loved the demo.

**Brandwin** · 10-07-2013, 09:30 AM

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Originally posted by LionsFanNJ

On probably going to hit the red box for this since I'm broke and can't afford any new games. I loved the demo.

I didn’t think about that and I usually do. Maybe because it’s a small number of games Redbox gets, but Redbox said they will have it tomorrow, so I will probably reserve it. When are new movies and games at Redbox, early morning, midnight?
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**LionsFanNJ** · 10-07-2013, 09:31 AM

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Not to sure. I've only gone for a game during the day before I leave for work or at night when I'm done.

**drtrix** · 10-08-2013, 01:33 AM

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Amazing how buried this game became. With PS4 dropping next month and GTA last month there has been no hype surrounding this game at all. I loved Heavy Rain and was excited when news of Beyond came out last year but I honestly forgot all about it.

Sales will probably suffer. Too bad they could not have got this game out this summer or held off and released it for PS4.

**Flawless** · 10-08-2013, 10:14 AM

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IGN - 6.0

Scene by scene, Beyond: Two Souls is compelling enough, principally thanks to a remarkable performance from Ellen Page. But never before have I felt like such a passive participant in a video game, my choices and actions merely icing on a dense, multi-layered cake. Playing Beyond is a memorable experience, yes, but a good video game it is not; and while the credits were rolling I admit to thinking I would have been happier to sit back and watch a movie version that was eight-and-a-half hours shorter.

Eurogamer - 6

Heavy Rain worked because it was a police procedural, a genre that's all about narrow horizons and methodical reassurance. The tight confines of Quantic's style suited it well. The same delivery just can't contain Beyond's epic scope, preposterous premise and high-octane action. You're left feeling detached from it, and its component parts have nothing more than a frail spine of story holding them together.

And something else has changed since 2010: it's a lot less lonely on the interactive drama frontier. The indie scene has seen an explosion in narrative games using experimental styles as varied as To the Moon, Gone Home and Thirty Flights of Loving. The Walking Dead has looked toward TV and comics and proved the value of the simple dramatic virtues: strong characters, solid writing, interesting situations. Even dumb action games like Asura's Wrath have got in on the act.

Beyond's approach is no less valid than any of those. But the film stars, the motion capture tech, the black borders, all that expensive striving to look just like a movie, don't make it any more valid either. Perhaps what David Cage and his dream need are limitations - limitations that Sony's blank cheque has singularly failed to impose on this sprawling, over-reaching game.

EDGE - 5

This is a far more systemically diverse game than Heavy Rain, and its story is certainly more believably told through Holmes, Dafoe and a fine supporting cast. Yet this is a game almost entirely bereft of tension, one in which failure goes largely unpunished and is almost always inconsequential. There is emotion here, but it’s felt passively, as spectator instead of player. And at the game’s climax, when Quantic Dream falls back on old habits and has you guide Holmes through a supernatural storm by mashing buttons on demand, it’s hard to feel anything at all. The studio’s commendable dream – of a marriage of mechanics and storytelling that takes videogames to new emotional heights – remains out of reach, and the rivers of photorealistic tears aren’t quite enough to make up for it.

Destructoid - 5

For all the complaints that can be leveled at Beyond -- and they can be leveled in feckless abundance -- the overwhelming problem with it is that it's just plain boring. Like a sociopath, Beyond: Two Souls knows how to act like it has a heart, while providing nothing of the emotional depth required to connect with an audience. Its characters can smile, and cry, and tell us they're feeling all of these feelings, but their paper-thin presentation and the frequent narrative dead ends prevent any of their pantomime from becoming too convincing.

And that's all Beyond: Two Souls is -- a pantomime. A childish play at being a meaningful journey, a vapid illusion of passion and poignancy. Nothing but a pantomime.

A perishingly dull pantomime.

Polygon - 8.0

With Beyond: Two Souls, Quantic Dream has smoothed away nearly all the rough edges in how it presents its stories. The other edge of that sword is that it lays the stories themselves bare to be judged entirely on their own. With so many of the traditional elements of gameplay stripped away, like challenge and exploration, a tremendous amount of weight is put on Beyond's story to carry the day. While it's exhilarating to see a team that has worked so hard to perfect a new way of telling stories, I couldn't help wishing they had a perfect one to tell.

Gamespot - 9.0

Beyond: Two Souls is a gripping adventure that doesn't get lost in its supernatural setup. It's Jodie's transformation from scared child to confident adult that's so mesmerizing, and you grow to care for her as you become invested in her plight. The story's biggest failing comes in how it handles dramatic sequences. Heavy-handed music often lays the emotion on too thick, which is a shame because the outstanding acting performances are more than able to invest you in the experience. Top-notch acting makes the characters you interact with sound believable, and their faces are expressive enough that you understand their thoughts even when they remain silent. Beyond: Two Souls so easily melds story and mechanics that you become enamored with this young woman and her extraordinary life.

Rev3games - 5/5

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**Jasong7777** · 10-08-2013, 11:05 AM

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I figured this would get mixed reviews. Still getting this today.

Beyond: Two Souls (PS3)

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