May 20, 2023 - Day 140 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 156

Game: A New Beginning: Final Cut

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Dec 11, 2012
Library Date: May 14, 2019
Unplayed: 1467d (4y6d)
Playtime: 30m

A New Beginning: Final Cut is a mashup of a point-and-click adventure & a graphic novel, and it does neither very well.

Today almost didn't have a review. I've spent a chunk of the day asleep, and being sick seems to have supercharged my ADHD.

I'm 16 games ahead, I could have skipped today... kind of wish I had.

I scoped my unplayed games, & saw this. Most of the time I remember at least activating a particular game; this one was a complete mystery.

It's a heavy-handed environmentalism-focused point-and-click "adventure". Not the fun kind of point-and-click, either.

The kind where you have to mouse over every little thing on screen to try & find something.

When you do, the interaction model is terrible. Most point-and-clicks give you a right-click context menu. Here it's left-click-hold-down-the-mouse-button-choose-the-correct-option...

...then listen to the droning, "my life sucks & I just want it to be over" voice acting with a poorly translated script that disavows contractions.

This is not a game you play for fun, it's a game you play as penance for not sorting your recycling properly.

Play A New Beginning: Final Cut?:

1: Nope.