‘The Last Stop’ is a love letter addressed to London

London 1982. Great Ben is not really Big Ben, but a poster for tourists. As the camera pulls back, we see teenage Sam and Pete pass by a Tube station, laughing as police chasing old-school classic uniforms chase after them. The action is quick, but the couple’s fuss is faster, which is until they encounter a mysterious man who leads them to a small door deep in the underground maze. It opens up, and a bright green light, science fiction that you can find in an episode Doctor Who, fills the screen. Sam boldly enters through the door and into the light, while Pete is accompanied by two officers. The door closes, the scene ends, cut in black.

This opening Last stopA new narrative adventure game from the British studio Variable State. For starters, it’s the moment of the greatest octane in the game, despite not being quiet for the rest of his seven-hour gameplay, with a zippy conversation that interests him more than sharp action sequences. More than that, the game’s preface gives you another well-known image of London – you know, the London Bridge, the red phones, Parliament itself, the kind of open world blockbuster on Ubisoft. Watch Dogs: Legion was recently introduced. Fortunately Last stop it’s just a predictable trail through famous landmarks. Instead, it takes players from area 2 of the city and inland (according to the celebrity). Pipe map), Victorian architecture XX. a place where it encounters 21st century social housing – somewhere visitors rarely go, unless they have earned a lot on Airbnb.

Surprisingly, then, London was not the co-director of the game to hear the original setting, in front of Jonathan Burroughs, Lyndon Holland and Terry Kenny, the publisher of Annapurna Interactive. Originally, Last stop it was called Lake of the Moon, and took place in a fictional U.S. town reminiscent of the trio’s first Twin Peaks-esque location, Virginia. The change stemmed from the biggest difference between this game and the first — not because of the improvement in moving from the first stage or the third person, but from the introduction of the dialogue. Virginia he was completely speechless, telling his quiet story through evocative animations, terrifying environments, and film editing. Last stop, by comparison, is a chatterbox; you spend most of your time participating in naturalistic and quick conversations.

For being blocked in an agreement published with Annapurna Lake of the Moon In 2017, and when work officially began shortly thereafter, Burroughs and the rest of the team began to have doubts about the marriage on the U.S. stage and the new innovative characters. “I was definitely worried,” Burroughs says in a Zoom video call. “If dialogue were to be key in this game, it would be beneficial if we could set it up in a location we all know. We wanted to talk to colloquialisms and natural voices, and not rely on second-hand TV and film references.” he did the tactics, throwing himself into the anthology of stories that eventually came together. Last stop.