Friday games with PETER HOSKIN: Dustborn and Kunitsu-Gami: Path Of The Goddess By Peter Hoskin Published: 01:54, 23 August 2024 | Updated: 01:54, 23 August 2024 e-mail View comments Dustborn (PlayStation, Xbox, PC, £24.99) Verdict: Too many parts Rating: Golly. Dustborn is a lot.
Though it doesn’t necessarily seem that way at first. There you are, a woman called Pax, on the lam from the law in some sort of future-America, having pulled off a heist with your crew of X-Men-ish buddies. You’re all masquerading as a punk band in a tour bus, as you hurry towards the border.
You spend the time engaged in achingly heartfelt conversations about your problems, society, oppression, that kind of thing. So this is going to be like a Telltale game, right? A narrative experience, in which the plot is moved forward by the dialogue options you pursue? Keep on choosing your own adventure until you reach freedom — or not. Golly.
Dustborn is a lot. Though it doesn’t necessarily seem that way at first (Still taken from Dustborn trailer) ustborn’s tonal swings between earnestness, comedy and big sci-fi imagineering, and you’ve got a game that’s as raucous as its bright, comic-booky art style And Dustborn is like that, except it starts punctuating the experience with other forms of gameplay. Because you’re pretending to be in a band, there are times when you’ve got to perform your (terrible) songs — by tapping controller buttons in time with the beat.
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