Rich environmental storytelling brings the station to life, Strong acting gives emotional depth to faceless characters, Characters and their relationships are explored through layers of details and feel more real as a result
Big-picture narrative doesn't connect effectively to the main character story
As I said up front, I enjoyed it. Tacoma is a pleasant and brisk experience with a stunning eye for industrial design.It lacks the subtlety of Gone Home though, and in the process misses much of what made traipsing through the Greenbriar family home inter...
Published: 2017-08-01, Author: Keith , review by: nzgamer.com
Abstract: Fullbright's latest outing Tacoma is more focused than their previous entry Gone Home, telling a more traditional story. While the crux of the game is about solving a digital mystery, the introspective and human elements are still the driving force. The r...
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Published: 2017-08-07, Author: Rick , review by: Bit-Tech.net
Abstract: One thing I've often lamented about walking simulators (or to use the more modern parlance, narrative adventures) is how they isolate the player in a dead world. From Dear Esther to the Vanishing of Ethan Carter, these are games that are more dedicated to...
Tacoma is as thoughtful and introspective as you'd hope, effortlessly pairing lofty sci-fi ideas with grounded personal stories and diverse characters. Your time on the Tacoma space station may be brief, but it's undeniably satisfying exploring the statio...
Published: 2017-08-01, Author: David , review by: gamesradar.com
Offers a surprisingly chilling vision of the future, AR recordings are a novel way of presenting character interactions, Allows you to view all the fascinating details within the cracks of its characters' lives at your own pace
Plot threads don't weave together as neatly as they should, especially if you miss something, What few puzzles exist are simple and arbitrary
While some of its threads don't always come together as neatly as they should, Fullbright's sophomore effort is a quiet and haunting examination of the ways corporations dehumanize us all...
