What Comes After Review – GameSpew

Everybody has a worry of falling asleep on public transport.

Whether or not or not it’s a bus, practice or aircraft, there’s at all times a little bit of an uncomfortable feeling – as if somebody is watching you the entire time. However what about falling asleep solely to get up and realise that you just’re on their own? There’s nobody watching you as a result of everybody else has come and gone. That is how the story-driven journey in What Comes After begins.

Within the sport you play as Vivi. After a tiring day she boards a subway practice and nods off, solely to get up and realise she missed her cease. Not solely that, however she has ended up on the practice with a bunch of ghosts headed to the afterlife. Huh. Scared and alone but in addition curious, you management Vivi as she explores the practice and chats with a few of its passengers. She additionally discovers some issues about herself alongside the best way.

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What Comes After‘s gameplay is extremely easy; all you’re tasked with is wandering across the practice talking with the ghost passengers. The profit to that is that What Comes After will be performed by anybody from any background, not simply skilled players. And because it takes solely an hour or so to finish one playthrough, it’s nice for those who don’t have a lot time for longer video games. That being mentioned, I wouldn’t advocate it for youthful gamers because it covers very critical subjects.

Vivi is coping with her personal nervousness and that turns into evident as you progress by means of What Comes After. As she speaks with ghosts on the practice you’ll be taught that she feels as if she’s a burden on her mom and sister. Conversing with the ghosts perks her up a bit and her practice journey nearly turns into like a remedy session. The additional you progress into the practice the extra attention-grabbing characters you’ll meet, together with just a few bushes, vegetation and animals.

What I can admire in regards to the story in What Comes After is that it isn’t afraid to be daring. Having a fundamental character that may be very clearly fighting their psychological well being is a courageous selection. Too typically in our society is psychological well being thought of a taboo matter and talking about it so overtly may be very uncommon to see. However a few of these daring selections are additionally what causes the sport to falter.

What Comes After‘s largest difficulty is that it tries to cowl too many controversial subjects in too too quick an area of time. Once you speak to the vegetation and animals you’ll uncover that a lot of them died due to the actions of people, or they no less than have issues to say about the best way people handled them. They’ll clarify what occurred to them, what they wished to do with their lives and extra. It feels as if the objective of the sport is to cowl as many controversial subjects as doable relatively than fleshing out one or two good subjects. The formal-sounding dialogue feels actually awkward at instances and, annoyingly, there are quite a lot of grammatical errors or misspelled phrases within the dialogue too.

It’s clear that effort and time went into What Comes After. The artwork type is gorgeous and the skittery method that Vivi strikes when she’s strolling quick suits her persona very properly. There’s a handful of respectable parts right here, however for a story-driven sport, it simply doesn’t supply sufficient of a compelling story.

If What Comes After will help these coping with psychological well being struggles, then that’s an exquisite factor. Nevertheless it doesn’t cowl these subjects delicately; its messages aren’t hidden anyplace, they’re in-your-face, entrance and centre. Nonetheless, it’s all the opposite points What Comes After tries to take care of – deforestation, animal abuse and extra – that wreck the expertise. As necessary as all of these points are, What Comes After doesn’t give sufficient time for them to have any actual goal or that means. Had it been extra centered, it might have had far more affect.

What Comes After Overview: GameSpew’s Rating

What Comes After is offered on PC and Change. We reviewed the Change model with a code offered by the writer.