Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) Review (Steam)

by Jim Smale · January 15, 2025

Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) Review, Explore 17th-century Canadian wilderness through the eyes of Jeanne, a French woman who crossed the Atlantic to start anew, and Maikan, an Innu hunter trying to discover what’s disturbing the forest. Your choices will shape the traits of the protagonists in this narrative single-player experience.

Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
10.37GB download size.
Steam achievements.
Controller support.
Graphics settings – display mode, monitor, resolution, quality, upscaling, motion blur, anti aliasing, fps limiter, and v-sync.
Controller settings – remap buttons, Invert axis, sensitivity sliders, vibration, and camera smoothing.
Accessibility options – subtitles background color, show hints, and show reticule.
The game is split into episodes.
Fast loading times.
Beautiful in-game cutscenes and interactions.
Fully voiced and well-acted.
A full 3D game world with 360-degree camera control.
First-person perspective.
Adventure gameplay.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
Codex – fills in as you find lore, interact with characters etc and it is split into five categories – characters, locations, fauna, flora, and history.
Multiple choice encounters and questions.
Button prompts appear near interactions.
Choices you make can have an effect on your character’s outlook on the world.
Has a lot of religion and faith in the game to help tell a story.
The game auto-saves regularly.
You play as two very different characters each with their own story but also how the two stories connect.
It’s a game that I like to call prime Sunday afternoon gaming, not too tense and just enough interaction to keepe engaged.
Both characters play differently and it is well balanced in terms of jumping between the two characters.
The areas you are in for each chapter are big enough to allow you to go off the beaten track and explore.
Glorious-looking locations.
Day and night cycles.
A lot of the set pieces are impactful and memorable.

Two Falls (Nishu Takuatshina) Review Cons:

The mouse cursor stays on the screen when using the controller.
You cannot always skip cutscenes or click-through interactions.
The game does contain a lot of religion and faith so this is a heads up if this isn’t your type of content.
I’m not a fan of how many times the game takes away control from the player and then just dumps it back on me.
It’s a slow-burn type of game with a lot of story to take in.
At times the pacing is off and you get ripped from doing some investigation or exploring to then sitting there and talking.

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