This statue is just an attempt to force you to fight over control of Paris as taking over next zones will speed up work on the statue.īuildings you unlock. There's a statue you need to build, there are some controls that check progress. You win and control it all? Changes nothing. There's this fight over Paris - literally serves no purpose. Game just starts some plot and forgets about it instantly unless it's an intrigue related plot. You make some decisions, people claim you will need to pay debt to them for their favors but you never do. Your father loves you, but doesn't show it much, he is also hiding a secret. Your younger son just loves you boundlessly. Your older son just hates you because of all the pain you caused (even if you didn't). You wife just blames you for everything bad that happens. At top of that you get these extremely stereotypical characters with no depth. How?! He won't believe anything, he won't care, he wants blood. Revenge he planned for years! Somehow homeless man managed to gather army and managed to manipulate all important people in Paris. He is the one who planned your "downfall". He is the one who turned you against other prominent figures in Paris and them against you. He is the one who planned the death of your son. Your brother appearing out of nowhere and revealing he is behind all the plots against you. The story starts nice, but quickly goes down. So even though game pretends to give you a choice it doesn't matter, Danton will stay and another guy is eliminated. If you decide to be a judge on second's guy hearing you can save him, but he will flee Paris and you won't hear from him. If you decide to be a judge on Danton's hearing then you can save him. Game literally tells you that only one of them can be saved. You can pick to be a judge on the hearing of one of them, but not both. The Revolution you don't.Īnother thing at one point your two allies are charged with some crimes as Robespierre wants them dead. What's the point then? Beauty of Papers Please was that you actually had a major impact on story and ending. You can't "win" the 3rd act, you will always lose and Napoleon will always rise to power. Your older son will always lose one hand - it's scripted that Bruno will always win one round! Your wife will always hate you and stab you. Your decisions ultimately don't matter Your younger son will always die. Game have a few major plot points that will happen no matter what you do. Want to sentence them to jail time? Ask a mix of both to set the jury in the middle of the displayed meter. Want to behead them on a guillotine? Just ask questions with the guillotine icon. You want to exculpate them? Just ask only questions that will convince the jury they are innocent - these questions are marked with a dove.
You can and should decide what sentence you want to give before you even start asking questions to the accused. In normal day to day court cases it doesn't matter what you do at all. Final outcome is still same.Įven though the game pretends your choices matter - they usually do not.
I started a second play-trough and I don't really see differences if I pick other options than during my first play-trough. However it's still extremely hard to lose intrigue, I had all intrigues on perfect score (Perfect intrigue) because you get many chances to succeed. You can do everything right, pick the option that will give you the highest chance of success but still fail this part of intrigue because RNG decided that despite 90% success chance you failed anyway. One of major game mechanics are intrigues, they are quite nice and interesting but again based on RNG. Many times my diplomat (that according to game is terrible at fighting) won against enemy Muscle while my Muscle (that according to game is great at fighting) lost against enemy Diplomat. Agent vs Agent fights are 100% unpredictable. You have 3 different agents and you can send them to perform some actions in Paris, to fight enemy's agents and to capture zones. I have few issues with this game that I'm going to mention.ĭuring game one of side mechanics is about fighting for a control of Paris. Further text will contain MAJOR spoilers. Finally I bought it a few weeks ago and finished today - it's a rather short game, you can finish it in 10h.
It looked great on paper, a "Papers Please" idea turned up a notch, placed in revolutionary France.
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