After we dropped Raft we decided that we wanted something we'd be sure to enjoy. Hazelight hasn't steered us wrong yet and Split Fiction had just released so we started on that.
To start off the game is absolutely stunning. So many sequences looked like movies and I was often sat there like "I can't believe I'm playing this".
As always Hazelight plays around a lot with mechanics, gameplay and genres. It isn't unusual for a single level to have action adventure, but also, third person shooter, but also metroidvania, but also bullethell, but also side-scrolling platformer, at one point we had a top down shooter, and iirc there was also a sequence of tower defense and isometric gameplay. But most of all it's a puzzle adventure.
We both commented on the game being seemingly a lot more linear than It Takes Two, which had a lot more side content and things to interact with and play around with on each level. Split Fiction is mainly about getting from point A to point B, but it does it very beautifully.
The side stories were always a great surprise and could be anything at all, ranging from children's stories about flying pigs to sci-fi stories about exploding stars. We had the most fun with the pigs one and the teeth and candy one.
Originally the game goes through one level fantasy, followed by one level sci-fi, followed by one level fantasy etc etc, but as the overarching story progresses the device begins breaking apart and the last level is a mess of jumbled fantasy and sci-fi elements and it's so goddamn cool!
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