Review: Disaster Report 4: Summer Memories (PlayStation 4)

In the shadow of a massive earthquake, you must brave a destroyed city where your choices will determine who survives.

Pros:

  • Nice graphics.
  • 34.46gb download size.
  • Platinum trophy.
  • A handful of free DLC from costumes to a whole new epilogue.
  • Male/female protagonist choice.
  • Japanese voice with English subtitles.
  • Simple character creator.
  • 3rd and 1st person perspectives that can be changed with a button press.
  • Multiple choice interactions whereby it impacts the story and/or gives morale points.
  • Can play your character how you want.
  • The free epilogue has trophies.
  • Help people in need by doing tasks or collecting items for them.
  • A lot of replay levels.
  • Interact with many colorful characters.
  • The game world changes as you play and proceed.
  • The setting takes place in Tokyo where a series of natural disasters happen and you survive but must help others less fortunate.
  • Tremors can happen at any time and you can react by ducking, failure to do so will usually cause injury or death.
  • The map fills in and adds points of interest as you play.
  • Save points in the map along with a save and quit.

Cons:

  • Long loading times.
  • Very basic creator.
  • Really slow-paced.
  • No tutorial or help.
  • Constant mid-level loading.
  • A lot of fetch quests.
  • No clear markers for tasks.
  • Clunky menu.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!

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