Not just in the video game medium, either, but in any digital storytelling medium. In fact, the only way I was able to even restate the plot of Past Cure to you was by looking up the description of the game on its website. Large sections in Past Cure will make you think you missed something, but nope, it’s just poor storytelling.Also worth noting in regards to story and characters is that Past Cure contains the worst voice acting I’ve ever heard in my life. Past Cure contains a script that is so disorderly and so unwieldy that you’ll ask yourself questions like, “Wait, who is this character?” and, “What the heck are they talking about?” at least a dozen times over the course of the five or so hour playtime. While this might sound promising, what the real issue with it is the way that the story is told. I’m being facetious but the supposed powers that Ian has play no critical role in the gameplay portion of Past Cure.As his powers he uses begin to cause him to delve into madness, Ian tries desperately to find his former captors and right himself. After finally escaping, Ian learns that he has powers - if they can even be called such - that allow him to do nifty things like disable security cameras and solve block puzzles. The game’s simple premise follows a single-named protagonist known only as Ian who is hunting down a group of men that held him captive and performed experiments on him for years. Moments into Past Cure, it becomes plainly apparent that you have absolutely no idea what is going on. On paper, this made me intrigued.That’s as far as my excitement got though.
The team openly wore its inspirations on its sleeve saying they were trying to model Past Cure as a psychological-thriller in the same vein as films like Inception and Fight Club with an added element of action from something like John Wick. Up front, I want to state that coming into Past Cure I was very excited to see the narrative that Phantom 8 Studio had created. Advertisement“I won’t mince words: Past Cure is a bad video game.”It’s honestly hard to know where to even begin with the major issues found in Past Cure, but I guess it’s easiest to start with the most dumbfounding part of the experience: its story.
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