I beat it last night. I won't spoil anything. If you think LiS1 was a great game. This game doesn't really compare. Reviewers are praising it and saying it's better than LiS1 but they're capping. It's better than LiS2, but definitely not 1. It's a good (quick) game. 7/10. It just seems kind of thin.
+ Episodes 4 & 5 is good (3 was pretty good to). 5 seemed a little rushed towards the end but it was dope (may be my favorite episode).
+ Alex can arguably be considered the best playable character in the series
+ Soundtrack can arguably be considered the best in the series
+ Does a decent job at tugging on heartstrings
+ Graphics/Art style is great definitely the best in the series (they gave Alex some Cake, and thunder thighs to, lowkey lol)
+ Text/SMS was cool (LiS1 did it better though)
- The game is not worth $40 let alone $60 ($30 is perfect). The game is short af. It seems shorter than Lis 1, 2, and BtS. Unacceptable imo.
- Haven is lowkey linear, and wack
- The side characters and relationship building is kind of meh, again compared to LiS1.
- Alex' power is lackluster. Especially compared to LiS1.
- I feel like covid may have forced them to rush the games release. I feel like they could've done so much more/better with this game (Alex' power, love interest, side characters, the story etc). It falls kind of flat until the later episodes. By the time shyt is getting really good, and really interesting. The game is beginning to wrap things up.
- Choices just seems so generic, and basic (unless it's one of those grey 50/50 choices)
- Could of used a couple more months (weeks even) in the oven. It's not buggy, but things can get wonky at times.
- The stakes never felt as high as LiS 1, or 2.
- Didn't really tackle many social, or real life issues this time (LiS 1 & 2 got very dark at times)
- Transition between episodes are unexpected and abrupt. You're gonna be like "wait...that's the end of the episode? Wtf"