It just kept getting spammed about things I didn't care about so i watched it. I am gonna discus writing and animation. Just genuin advice.
I am writing the review while watching it scene by scene for the second time.
Episode 1: Animation looks great skits are funny. Knowing the witch is trans, the guy could have been doing a more girly voice I know it can be, done and it makes things later on way more funny and interesting.
After entering the game the film grain makes things look worst and makes details to disapear. End of episode 1 overall good.
Episode 2: Screeming and talking are a bad combination. The guy ranting and the guy panicking is not great. Info dump when the beast shows up in the grave yard and it forshadows a wider problem.
Overall the animation is really good but it's held down by the voice acting and writing here. The reveal was out there and it was weird. Because their was no context or buildup.
I like the guy is a book nerd but everything being conected to being a Lesbian and calling himself a Ally is weird and with no context for me personally.
11 min everything goes down hill. INFO DUMP. I get the reason but dosen't work. I don't know what they are doing really. Animation is still great.
14 it goes back to good. Until gender gets involved you know I get the bit, but what's with the dam rant of the beast. It's just bad writing from there. Everything untill the skeleton giving back his hat is just bad writing and not needed.
The 18 min mark it feels like I skiped 10 episodes and I am at the end of season 1 best way I can explain it and after that. "Hey kid wants some drugs".
The dam main charecter isn't explained at all and this all is just out there. I understand the end scene but it is way too rushed and nothing is explained.
6/10 Great animation great sceenes good idea horrible execution rushed writing. Expecting I automatically care about things like corectlly calling people by their gender considering their is genderless languages and most normal people irl don't care about it.
It expects I know or related to a lot of things I don't. It could explain it to me but rushes way too fast and way too out of nowhere.
I think it's a perfect example of great idea and quality but horrible execution. it does not deserve the 1+ hour video essay recomendations but it does deserve genuin critique.
After I found old telltale games I wanted to see how the new story telling scene is. First thing I remembered was people going crazy about Dispatch, mainly the voice actors that's why I didn't really care.
After playing it. Their is less jank then the old games. Because they are using a actually functioning engine people didn't know but the 3d Engine telltale used had no gravity or physics everything was done by hand. Animations were good voice acting was good. Writing was amazing and it's really the reason I am writing this.
AdHoc is making Until Dawn 2 right now and it's set to release 2027 and they have some other project witch is I assume Dispatch season 2 TBA.
The writers obviously left so many holes for season 2. And they already have the assets. Why take years to make their most successful project.
The worst thing I have seen was the fan's theories on the heroes. It's just good writing and it's stupid they aren't working on it while expanding for Until Dawn 2
9/10 Tell tale type game a must play especially. If you are a fan of the 911 games as well that is the reason I played it but not some other game.
The reason it's not a 10 is because they could have done more with what they had already. And looking at the quality of everything they were given the time they just decided not to go in to it.
Telltale is not a good example on time as they had a lot a bad things in the back but even with that they are taking a long time.
Edit: After a day and some. I would say a 7.5. The more you think about it the worst it gets. Also tryed a second playtrough and it does not hold up.
Edit of the edit: it's a Itch io type game turn out 7