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This all plays into your conversations. Depending on your aptitudes and the information you uncover, certain dialogue options open up. As in politics, relationships are important and fragile. A wrong move can cost you, but you can also make enemies into allies just as quickly with the right argument. The basic gameplay revolves around effort points, where some dialogue options have a cost, and that cost is lowered depending on your skills. You only get so many each quest to expend, so choosing wisely is essential. You want to invest optimally, whether it’s in an alliance or learning a secret that changes your perspective on a situation. The game has its share of alternative paths because of this, but that doesn’t matter when they all lead you down bad plotlines.<\/p>\n
In addition to exploring the manor, building relationships, and making decisions, you encounter puzzles, which are more complex and logic-centric than we’ve seen in recent narrative games like Life is Strange and Telltale’s The Walking Dead. While I enjoy solving riddles and brain teasers, The Council’s puzzles are tedious. For instance, one had me matching religious figures in paintings to their associated bible verse. If that required me to sort through a book or two, it wouldn’t be so boring but this is a drawn-out process that you do multiple times by trying to decipher clues for the verses that span across many different gospels and passages. I much preferred when deducing solutions based on the information you have, such as learning how to write messages in a secret code and matching historical dates and events to access a secret room. As you solve various puzzles, expect to backtrack to talk to people and gather requested items, which is exacerbated by long load times when you enter a new room. <\/p>\n
The Council’s bad graphics, voice acting, and load times didn’t bother me as much as its problematic narrative. What’s the point of having choice and consequence when you don’t care about the story you’re inhabiting? The Council seems promising with its good ideas, but then when you get further into it, it betrays you like a dishonest politician. <\/p>\n
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Score: 6.5<\/h2>\n
Summary: <\/b>The Council has an alluring premise with interesting choices and consequences. However, it falls apart with absurd plot twists, tedious backtracking, and unexciting puzzles. <\/p>\n
Concept: <\/b>As a member of secret society, you arrive at a mysterious manor where you brush shoulders with historical figures, uncover secrets, and decide the future of the world <\/p>\n
Graphics: <\/b>Outside of the unremarkable visuals, the unnatural body animations and poorly synchronized dialogue breaks immersion <\/p>\n
Sound: <\/b>The voice acting is awkward and horrendously stilted, to the point that the game would be better without it <\/p>\n
Playability: <\/b>Moving around the manor and picking dialogue options is easy, but trying to select items in close proximity to each other is frustrating and text sometimes blends in with the backdrop <\/p>\n
Entertainment: <\/b>The Council has an alluring premise with interesting choices and consequences. However, it falls apart with absurd plot twists, tedious backtracking, and unexciting puzzles <\/p>\n
Replay: <\/b>Moderate <\/p>\n
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