Imagine playing Life Is Strange while also messing around with its inner workings, and you've got a sense of how Don't Nod's latest game plays.
I am, as both my friends and my enemies will quite happily tell you, many things. One of these things, now and again, is ‘fickle’. Therefore, when Don’t Nod’s latest started to remind me of something, it took me a while to realise what that something was. It was Twine; an open-source tool to create and share stories with multiple paths. Choose your own adventure tales, basically.
Harmony differs from previous Don’t Nod narrative games in a few ways. One of the most interesting ones is what is named in-game as the Augural. Your character has the power to see into the future to a limited extent. In gameplay terms, this means that you get a sniff of possible paths the story can wander down, and so you can try to take actions most likely to lead you to your desired outcome.
One consequence of ramming the player’s nose into the fleshy innards of the narrative adventure genre, is that they’re thrown into the Augural regularly. /Very/ regularly. Some people will feel that these are unwelcome interruptions to the story, I’m sure; but I found myself oddly willing to accept this as part of a new play experience. If anything, I appreciated the ability to keep an eye on how well I was doing in my aim to follow a certain path or achieve a particular goal.
I hate to say it—because I love the idea, and sometimes it works brilliantly—but overall, it doesn’t work very well. Sometimes, I found myself having to choose between a decision that would ordinarily be my first choice, and a decision that makes more sense for my overarching goal. I almost resented the game at these moments, though perhaps the fault there lies with me.
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