I"m replaying Fallen Order and I just, I just have to say this. The dream sequence in the beginning? One of the literal best things ever. I love it. It's fantastic.
From waking up in a normal looking car, not even being fully aware Cal actually fell asleep, to interacting with the door for the next car. And this one is filled with the blue-grey haze of an echo, of Cal's meditation circles, but you don't know this yet, but you know there's something off. The further you go through that car, people disappear with each passing moment. Interact with the next door. this one is completely empty except for Prauf. And he's gone through the next one. And then time to interact with the next door -
Let me tell you, the fact that you interact with it and nothing happens yet the interact function doesn't go away? You can keep interacting and interacting to it, but nothing happens. It doesn't go into a cutscene. It doesn't give you hints. You have to make the decision to turn around (playing it a second time made me realize that the sounds of the train actually disappears, I didn't notice the first time). And so, yeah, you think there might be something else you have to do, find a different way off the train, so you turn around and
The train is replaced by the hallways of the Albedo Brave and you just keep walking, and walking, and the hallways expands just like a dream, what was a creepy but mundane dream changes as the alarms sound, and then the sections close and make you interact with it again - this time with the same swirl as an echo. The doors open and it's the haze of an echo, and you meet Cal's master! You get his driving mantra- trust only in the Force - and it is a brilliant piece of game play in my honest opinion.
(and then he wakes up, and the train actually stops, the Second and Ninth Sisters are here - trust only in the Force, Cal, it's telling you something bad is coming!)
THIS is the part that endeared me to the game itself instead of just liking Cal based off his snarky but sweet nature during the climbing tutorial. (i would've kept playing just for Cal, but this made me realize i was going to love this game as a whole)
Not gonna lie, Survivor not having a lot of this type of game play - relying more on cutscenes and interrupting fights for prompts and cutscenes, soured a lot of Survivor for me (I still love the game don't get me wrong).
But this dream sequence? The illusion inside the Vault, the wonderfully interactive way they did the reveal? How you weren't just sitting in a cutscene but actually had to walk Cal through every horrifying scenario that would happen if he took the holocron? The way they introduced his new abilities via what is basically a playable force echo culminating in playing through Order 66?
It's beautiful. It felt/feels like I was/am playing a story instead of playing a game to get from cutscene to cutscene.
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