We Happy Few

There really isnt anything like this game so its hard to draw a comparison to anything else. Its set in an alternate Britain where Britain lost the second world war so people blank everything out with a drug called Joy and the game is about finding out what happened. Interesting but it does require giving it some time, you will be glad you did.

Love this game despite its confusing gameplay and difficulty because i love thats its literally clockwork orange the video game its such a clockwork orange type of game everything about this game is clockwork orange its just totally amazing but the negatives of this game are trying to avoid the enemies everywhere because I'm stuck on a mission where you have to steal a file from the police station and avoiding the creepy cops in whiteface is both absolutely terrifying and frustrating this is a very good game though and a lot of times outright terrifying they should make a sequel they already have a we happy few movie in post production.

The concept, writing, and story are all solid, interesting, and compelling, but We Happy Few fails to check the most important boxes for a video game - playability. From clunky stealth mechanics that barely function, to enemies teleporting around, and overall buggy and shallow gameplay, this game really falls down mechanically. It seems to emphasize stealth a lot, but the stealth system is so poorly implemented that it makes that approach essentially untenable. However, there is little need for it, as the enemy AI is so feeble that most enemies you can basically just walk by and they won't notice you. And even if they do, escaping them is pitifully easy.

A game ought to be fun to play above all else, but We Happy Few simply isn't very.

We Happy Few has an interesting narrative and also likable Characters. But that's it with the positive aspects, everything else is just miserable in this Game. The Biggest Red Flag for Me personally has to be the Random Generated World, which has not to be a bad thing necessarily, but a lot of objectives demand you to walk from A to B. But because the World is very big you find yourself most of the time roaming a lifeless, randomly generated World in which nothing really stands out, except the Main Characters. So at some point you start to rely on the Fast Travel Points, which are, offcourse, set randomly in this Random World, which makes them hard to discover. Apart from the Main Characters, nothing Breathes Life in this Game. One of the worst Things that stands heavily in the way of immersion, is that you are Playing 3 Acts: First as Arthur, Second Sally and Last Ollie. I have to say that the Acts differ in quality, for me Ollie was way more Fun than the other two, but that's not my Problem. My Problem is, again, the randomly generated World. For some reason it generates the world randomly AGAIN between the Acts, although the Stories are tangled together. That does not make any sense and it also means that you have to "discover" this Life- and "Joyless" World All over again, in which the map also feels just a little too stretched out, especially the Garden District. So most of the Time this Game boils down to Walking, because apart from some Sidequest, there is nothing for you to discover. Except offcourse parts for Crafting, Food and Weapons. The Survival aspects are a topic on their own, but for me the size of the Map and the Fact that it's randomly generated, stands out as the biggest Flaw of this game.

I played the original demo when the crew were looking for funding and was very impressed. It has a bioshock type feel to the storyline which leaves you with that somethings not quite right feeling. The characters are not really realistic and neither are the areas but it kinda adds to its charm. A bit like the fable games in terms of graphics. I've thoroughly enjoyed playing this game as it's something different to the other things out there at the moment. I believe theres some kind of multiplayer mode also like bioshock as well but I have tried that yet.