Welcome to our review of Until Dawn, the new remaster that is rather plagued with bugs and technical issues.
When eight friends return to the isolated lodge where two of their group vanished a year prior, fear tightens its icy grip, and their mountain retreat descends into a nightmare with no escape. Face your fears and determine who survives Until Dawn in this seminal horror classic, rebuilt and enhanced for PC and Playstation. Immerse yourself in a gripping slasher horror rebuilt from the ground up with stunning visuals in Unreal Engine 5. Enhanced by movie-like cinematography, refined gameplay mechanics and more, venture into a thrilling exploration of an isolated mountain where nothing is as it seems.
Their fate in your hands. Create your own gripping tale as you control a group of unique characters portrayed by an all-star cast, including Hayden Panettiere, Brett Dalton, and more, and decide their fate through your choices. Through dynamic animations and nuanced facial-capture performances, learn what makes each character tick, and who among the group has what it takes to survive.
Terror never looked so good. Explore a rich and detailed environment that will leave you breathless with every step. With new visual enhancements, the original game has been rebuilt from the ground up – utilizing cutting-edge visual technology to bring the nightmare to life. Rebuilt for a new generation. Discover new collectibles, all-new environments to investigate, and re-cut narrative sequences that deepen the mystery further. Get closer to the action with an all-new, immersive third-person camera, and enjoy a brand-new musical score and reauthored audio that’ll keep you on the edge of your seat throughout the journey.
Until Dawn is one of those remakes where it is unclear why it was even remade. The original still being perfectly playable and well, that price point of 60 is very sus, to say the least. Add in weird light compositions where the game looks like it is already looks past dawn… Not to forget some of the cases where the characters look incredibly lackluster, it brings up the question, why was this game even remade when this ended up being the end result.
Yes, you do get that nice dark/noir feeling when that creepy shrink talks to you. Yes, you feel a sense of relief when you pick the option that gets that “weird and unusual justice” like when you get the dumb boy to look at his girlfriend seemingly cheating on him. There is a lot to enjoy about Until Dawn, but the majority of the time, the idea is just “why was this remade this early?”.
I am also unable to answer that question, like most of us, I did see the video about how the lighting is off. About how certain scenes got compared and the massive differences between old and new. I do think this is the first game in a very long time where I am going to do a double recommendation. Either wait for a price drop or just buy the original as that still looks very much playable and one may even make the argument that it simply looks better.
In conclusion, if you are not aware of all the differences, you would only be annoyed with the borks and bugs this game still has, which are in a way manageable. I would however personally recommend holding out on its purchase as this is simply not a finished product YET.
