And here
Aaaand just like everyone else, here I am finally playing through the Demo Disc.10 Dead Doves impresses right away. The mixture of more modern standards of cinematic composition in cutscenes with oldschool character models and slightly-too-detailed faces gives the game a lot of personality right away, especially when the more mundane hiking part is immediately preceded by something wild and surreal to keep you engaged and curious.
Our two leads are great - charming and funny. But I do feel like their dialogue gets a bit too inside-jokey on occasion at least at first. I get that this is done to assert that the two know eachother well, but it happens a lot and very fast to the point of some parts of the dialogue being near incomprehensible, at least to me,
I'd also have liked if the demo either removed the trash if it doesn't play in until later, or gave some indication of what it will be good for. I compulsively picked it all up whenever I saw it with no payoff. But that's a very, very minor nitpick.
10 Dead Doves definitely has my attention for future purchase with its quirky identity and bizarre events - keep it up, guys. Excited to see where this goes.