ACTING!!!
Until Dawn has a lot of familiar and famous faces in its cast, something that’s not that common these days in video games. This works completely in its favor. Being an interactive drama, there needs to be a ton of emotion behind the script and these actors all bring it. You’ll be wrapped up in the emotions, happy with the silly jokes, and overwhelmed when shit hits the fan.
Rami Malek, in particular, performs so well his role that I’m still thinking about some of the later scenes. They haunt me thanks to a mixture of him and the script itself. They really did their research and behind the scenes work and all the planning to compose this amazing game that came out of nowhere, and it shows.
Each of these elements bring together what could have very well been a forgettable title to the forefront of every release. A year that is full of blockbuster hits, and some interactive B movie easily steals the show. It’s truly incredible what Until Dawn has managed to do as a new IP, for a somewhat tainted genre, in a year that has had so many GOTY contenders.
Keep checking back all this week for more opinions from Twinfinite on which game should be Game of the Year! And finally, next week, we’ll announce our Game of the Year!
