American Arcadia Review – Does This Stylish Thriller Deliver on Its Promise?
For this American Arcadia Review, we play a cinematic puzzle game that combines a 2.5D platformer and a first-person game to tell the tale of a thrilling escape. Experience the extraordinary story of Trevor, an average man escaping from the world’s most popular reality TV show.
American Arcadia Review Pros:
- Beautiful graphics.
- 4.6GB download size.
- Controller settings – sensitivity slider, vibration, smooth camera rotation, Invert axis, and head bobbing on/off.
- Can remap the controls for the controller.
- Puzzle platformer gameplay.
- Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
- Game settings – subtitles, text size, background, closed captions, Crosshair, and detection icons.
- Excellent voice work.
- An instant attention-grabbing story thanks to the fantastic animated cutscenes and voice work.
- The game is told as a memory as your character is being interviewed about the events.
- The presentation and production value are high, with brilliant cuts and jumps between scenes.
- It’s a game that mashes several genres together, like 2D platforming with 3D puzzle sections.
- Constant checkpoints.
- Top-tier lighting that adds to the game and is used in engaging ways.
- All the locations look really good.
- Memorable characters and scenes.
- Scene selection so you can replay parts.
- You control two different characters, and the genius part is the way in which they combine the gameplay to facilitate both of them. It plays like it’s the easiest thing in the world to have you playing as two characters at once.
- I like all the little throwaway conversations you hear, or watching something play out.
- An excellent fit for the handheld, plug in some headphones, and you are sorted.
American Arcadia Review Cons:
- Doesn’t have any touchscreen support.
- Never sure when the game has been saved or when you hit a checkpoint.
- No motion sickness reduction option.
- The initial puzzles trick you by being very straightforward and somewhat simple, then BAM, it is like the mental Krypton Factor on a loop.
- The puzzles are trickier in the not knowing what the game expects of you, rather than the puzzle itself.
- I never found a reason to replay any of the scenes.
- No replay value.
- Cannot skip cutscenes, I mean, you shouldn’t because they are awesome, but I’m just telling you.
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American Arcadia:
Developer: Out of the Blue Games
Publisher: Raw Fury
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