For being such an inventive narrative adventure game, Lost Records: Bloom & Rage He still warns the edition format that no longer works for this species.
Lost records It is one of the best games released so far in 2025. It tells a timeless tale of ripening, which is not afraid to enjoy the nostalgia of the 90s. It uses the choice of adventure game format, supported by Telltale and do not have no early work, but fills it with clever ideas, such as sharing perspectives between the past and the future and allowing players to shoot the world with a camera controlled by a gyroscopic. I highly recommend that you play now when everything is outside, but I feel awkward that I couldn’t recommend it so far.
Don’t ‘nod decided to release Lost records in two parts. Tape 1 was fired on February 18, while Tape 2 was released on April 15. While it is not hoped that this approach will give players time to stop and reflect on the game, it had the opposite effect. In the era in which so many games appear and at the same time compete for attention, the episodic edition is not as appealing as in 2014, especially if it is partly.
Not entirely television
Lost records It follows a group of friends in the summer of 1995. They are a group of freaks who meet and create an inseparable bond, especially when they discover a hidden rest and a glowing supernatural hole in the desert near their hometown. Tape 1 mainly concerns the meeting of a group of friends and creating the title Bloom & Rage team. The culmination is the first performance of the band and the revelation that will again convey part of what is happening.
Tape 2 follows the group when they cope with the fall of the first game event. In addition to all this, Lost Records also follows three united friends on a newfangled day to think about their past and open a mysterious box for them. This is a fascinating story when everything is said and done, but not as I think it had to be cut into two parts. A slower pace of narrative means that individual halves do not come true themselves. The narrative, many main topics and secrets are not combined until you play whole.
Not NOD justified the release of the game in two parts. Creative director Michel Koch said Rant game That he likes “media that appreciate my time and does not try to close me at endless content of content.” Down EurogamerKoch explained that he liked the weekly TV series and that after the end of the tape 1 it was sensible not to nod, so as to give players place to “stop there and bounce” so that they could return to Tape 2 “” even more invested in history, because you had some time to reflect on what will happen. “
Short games are just as vital as over 100 hours of live services, and weekly television has its charms. Although I agree with Koch in both of these points, tape 1 and tape 2 Lost records They are not structured like television episodes, and the whole game takes only about 8 or 9 hours. Even if there are aspects of its stories that you should think about, the two -month waiting between two four -hour fragments of a coherent history did not benefit Lost records at vast. If the goal was to imitate television, then Lost records“The narrative structure could be divided into more television similar to sections.
While I liked tape 1 Lost recordsI could not have time to play tape 2 if I did not plan to write about it, because it comes out in a shockingly crowded month for games. Until now, I could not give it a recommendation with all my heart, because it was an incomplete experience. Because so many games compete for the time and attention of players, the risk is to ask players to invest in the first half of the adventure game, and then make them wait two months at the end of the story.
Looking at restricted data, launching tape 2 on Steam Calculated numbers of players than the premiere of tapes 1. Were the numbers stronger from the release if the whole game appeared simultaneously? I like Lost Records and I hope that many people are a game, but some of me are retrospectively looking back and wondering if the episodic model of the edition fit this fresh adventure don’t nod.
Fortunately, we don’t have to worry about everything Lost Records: Bloom & Rage It is now available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. This is part of the PS Plus Games catalog on PS5.
