Though there’s only one real ending, the deadends in the story are all incredibly satisfying from the perspective of what can happen in one’s life if they don’t make the “right” choice. Beck’s moms especially feature as really important characters as the game progresses. Especially the side characters, who are diverse (there’s lesbians with actual importance and dialogue!) and talk to Luca while he (and his friends) run around finding clues. Really, the characters are what elevate the game from a simple click and point adventure game to something worth spending time playing. After all, any story with fertilizer immediately makes me prepare for Soylent Green. One of the major strengths of the game is Luca and his friends, who feel super realistic and react as such when they (and the player) learn what’s going on in their beloved town. For example, when you find out why the Foul Harvest happened and why Harvest Perennial is even in the town of Beacon Pines. And the game isn’t afraid of showing death, which makes each progressive charm play a bit terrifying!Īs you (and Luca) move through the story you find out things that Luca isn’t originally privy to, making the reveals more and more exciting and in some cases, really dang surprising. ![]() Except you can’t find out until you play a charm. Making the rain worse could help you escape a dicey situation or it could cause you major harm. Since the charms don’t indicate what might happen when you choose them, literally anything might unfold. When you reach the not so great ends, literally deadends, the narrator reacts just like the player does whether that’s in shock, sadness, or frustration and urges you to try again, which makes the game feel like a real adventure! You can replay different parts of the story as many times as you want! The dialogue and story in the game unfold like a visual novel with narration by Kirsten Mize, who gets the player involved in the game and is clearly involved in the story herself, complete with concerns about the story ending “properly” (which is to say that no one dies, oh no).Īgainst super fun music and beautifully drawn and illustrated scenes that look like little dioramas, Beacon Pines seems like a cute whimsical game with a side of mystery, but is really a game about choices and consequences. In the full game, once the player gets to this point, that’s when things start to get real because some characters go missing and new ones appear! In the demo itself, the game makes the player aware that shady shenanigans are going on with a man throwing another body in the dumpster that Luca and Rolo had jumped into before they got discovered. What the Foul Harvest is, where Luca’s mother has gone, and what is happening with Perennial Harvest are all part of the central mysteries, culminating in some majorly wild reveals. There’s also the required leading family, and whether they can be trusted is …unclear. As the player, you direct Luca around while he, his best friend Rolo (a tiger), and new friend Beck (a cat) try to uncover the many mysteries of the small town where conspiracies and mysteries await.Īlong the way Luca, Rolo, and Beck realize there’s a lot more going on than meets the eye as the town gets ready for a celebration of the new company, Perennial Harvest, that has saved the town after a really bad harvest literally called the “Foul Harvest” years ago. ![]() So it just dropped out in the adaptation.Molly and I were both provided review copies in return for fair reviews and you can check out her general review of the game if you haven’t already! Plus check back Friday for an interview with Matt Meyer, developer and co-writer of the game!īeacon Pines follows follows Luca VanHorn, a 12 year old deer whose father passed away and now his mother is missing, leaving his grandmother to take care of him. ![]() It just didn't seem to work based on how we had changed other things around it. He explained, "when you characterize it that way, it's a little harder to get into this relationship infatuation thing. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Naren Shankar explained that because the show changed the parameters of Holden's ( Steven Strait) mission to Ilus, the potential-romance subplot no longer made sense. While Elvi (Lyndie Greenwood) is still a significant character on the corresponding season of the show, her infatuation-triangle storyline was scrapped. ![]() Elvi Okoye develops a crush on James Holden when he arrives on the planet to help mediate growing tensions between the colonists of the new planet and corporate interests, but she eventually gets married to Fayez Sarkis, one of her colleagues. In the books, a biologist working on Ilus named Dr. Changes to some of the narrative and character moments also meant that a storyline from Cibola Burn was cut.
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