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Beautiful, painful, and yes, gut wrenching
This is the greatest promotional trailer I have seen for a video game, including Kosinski's "Mad World" trailer for Gears of War. When I taught at college, I showed my students--with a warning of the emotional quality of it--to express story through solely physical actions, plot development, and timelines. The way it all plays out is genius, and the art direction is fantastic, unique while also preserving the look of other releases of the time. The greatest element in my opinion was the score by Giles Lamb, which stands out as a vibrant and multifaceted emotional inclusion that truly makes the trailer stand out in greatness.
The singular downside to this trailer is that the game did not live up to the expectations emotionally or in the stakes. The Gears of War trailers (which I only keep continuing on about because of the genuine cinematic emotional punch that those trailers have) adequately established the tone of the games, yet this trailer was conceptually brilliant but was failed by the gameplay (which may be a fault of the makers of the video for disregarding the content, or more likely the fault of the developers for not providing adequate information to the video-makers about the content of the game.
Nonetheless, this is a masterpiece in storytelling and should be seen by all who are willing to face such emotion and rawness.
The singular downside to this trailer is that the game did not live up to the expectations emotionally or in the stakes. The Gears of War trailers (which I only keep continuing on about because of the genuine cinematic emotional punch that those trailers have) adequately established the tone of the games, yet this trailer was conceptually brilliant but was failed by the gameplay (which may be a fault of the makers of the video for disregarding the content, or more likely the fault of the developers for not providing adequate information to the video-makers about the content of the game.
Nonetheless, this is a masterpiece in storytelling and should be seen by all who are willing to face such emotion and rawness.
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- JerSim94
- Jan 7, 2023
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