Last Stop is an immersive and amusing narrative-driven game which follows the lives of four people as they bear witness to strange, Twilight-esque events.
Now that we are a little past halfway through 2021, some of the VGU crew take a moment to talk about their personal top games of 2021.
VGChartz's Lee Mehr: "In the end, Last Stop's anthology set-up has a tendency to separate more than mix. The chapter select structure and the disparate quality tends to make the better story (Paper Dolls) pull more than its weight. But regardless of writing, the whole effort feels limited in enabling players to properly connect with the title's characters. Variable State's "game design austerity" feels rigid and characterless to the point of being guided through a clear hamster tube. An admitted improvement over Virginia for me, but it still has a ways to go."
I disagree with that score. I really enjoyed this game. Its probably my favorite "walking sim" type game since life is strange. Great characters, interesting story, and good humor at times. 7 out of 10 for me.
Well, all I can say there is glad you enjoyed it. How did you feel about Virginia in comparison?
I enjoyed Virginia as well. Admittedly, I'm a fan of the walking sim genre provided the story is good. Maybe I'm just a fan of Annapurna in general.
From PSU: "Variable State follows up the wordless weirdness of Virginia with a far more talkative, and more grounded, supernatural drama with Last Stop. The focus on its three protagonists’ everyday problems over the underlying odd phenomena helps to make each tale more engaging, and in turn, makes the stranger things that occur feel more captivatingly mysterious in their initially limited use. It’s a little light in terms of traditional player control, but Last Stop tells a hell of a good story that you still very much feel like you’re in the director’s chair for."
