Detroit Becomen Human - review

Hello friends today I will talk about the video game Detroit: Become Humans.

Detroit: Become Human' is the best game of David Cage and Quantic Dream, it is incredible the realism that Quantic Dream has achieved both at the level of graphic detail and expressions (his eyes, how he moves his head, how his lips are synchronized with his lines of dialogue), but also by how it evolves throughout our games influenced by our decisions

Detroit is, therefore, the most refined and polished expression of a formula that pleases many and horrifies others. A formula whose main ingredients are: the story and narrative as the central axis on the one hand, and controls based on quick time events and small gestures with the sticks to carry out all actions on the other, detroit will show you a flowchart with all the decisions you have taken after completing each chapter. But that would be useless if all the possible ramifications were not also shown, those decisions that we could have taken and that would have led to completely different results.

The game is set in the Michigan city of the same name in the year 2038, it starts with the best scene of all the game has: The rescue of a girl who has been taken hostage by what until then was the android that was taking care of her, now converted into what they call divergent (an android that is out of its original programming and begins to show human behavior), We control Connor, an advanced Cyberlife android working for law enforcement and in this case will be the negotiator, responsible for trying to save the life of the girl at all costs reasoning with the divergent. To do this, and before engaging in the final conversation with the defective android, we must investigate a series of clues scattered around the house to understand what happened.

As we continue advancing in the game we will alternately control Connor and two more androids, Markus and Kara. Each of these three androids has its own personality and its chapters full of ramifications, so the story will progress on one side or another depending on each decision we make. Not only does each character have their lines of dialogue and their alternative sequences depending on each decision, but you have to end up fitting those three stories into the overall theme that 'Detroit' tells.

All this is well resolved. because after each scene the developers have decided to let us see the decision tree, with all the options we have chosen and also the ones we have overlooked. As you would expect from a game that is so heavily narrative-driven, Detroit's story is both its strongest asset and the source of its most constant problems.

The concept of artificial intelligence gaining consciousness and questioning its place in the universe is nothing new; in fact, it arguably had its best interpretations in the likes of Blade Runner, but Quantic Dream manages to bring something relatively new to the table, mainly due to its unwavering mission to include taboo topics that are rarely addressed in the medium.

Some are handled better than others, and it's this inconsistency that makes Detroit such an inconsistent experience. The domestic abuse and drug addiction of Kara's story, a winning theme and the studio received a fair amount of criticism in the run-up to its release
What's more, the game is never interrupted and never ends, there is no Game Over in Detroit. The decisions mark the path and the end is always reached. The result is a technical feat in video game development and a meticulously detailed cinematic achievement.

and that was all in my Detroit Become Human review until another time friends