Beyond: Two Souls is an interactive drama and action-adventure game. It was originally released on 8 October 2013, later being re-released for the PlayStation 4 on 24 November 2015. The game features Jodie Holmes, one of two player characters. The other is an incorporeal entity named Aiden: a separate soul. It received polarised critical reception upon its release.
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Beyond: Two Souls is an interactive drama and action-adventure game. It was originally released on 8 October 2013, later being re-released for the PlayStation 4 on 24 November 2015. The game features Jodie Holmes, one of two player characters. The other is an incorporeal entity named Aiden: a separate soul. The actors in the game worked during the year-long project in Quantic Dream’s Paris studio to perform on-set voice acting and motion-capture acting. It received polarised critical reception upon its release. Sales reached over one million copies two months after its worldwide release by the end of 2013. Two years later, a PlayStation 4 version was released, both as a standalone game and then in the QuanticDream Collection with the 2010 game Heavy Rain. A version for Windows was released on 22 July 2019. The player primarily controls JODie through the in-game environments. At almost any time, however, the player can switch to control Aiden instead. While playing as Aiden, the game becomes monochromatic. interactive objects are highlighted by an aura shining in one of several colours, with the colour of the aura indicating his potential interaction. Orange characters can be possessed, red characters strangled, blue objects knocked around, and green characters healed. Failing certain action sequences will alter the course of a chapter and in some cases lead to the death of a non-playable character. Choices also determine the finale of the game, as any number of possible plot endings can be experienced by the player.
The outcome of entire scenes can be manipulated to a certain extent on player choices. These choices are typically moral decisions made through JodIE’s dialogue options, with success or failure in combat scenes, or psychic actions that the player chooses to have Aiden perform. Since birth, Jodies has had a psychic connection with her foster parents in a suburban home with a connection to her foster father Nathan Dawkins. Willem Dafoe co-stars as Nathan Dawkins, a researcher in the Department of Paranormal Activity and Jodier’s surrogate-father-figure. During action sequences, like chases or hand-to-hand combat, the cinematography moves into slow motion. During this time the player must determine the direction Joder is moving and push the controller stick in that direction to complete the action. Other sequences require real-time stealth, which has the player sneak Jody through environments while coordinating certain actions with Aiden. If Joderie must perform a specific action, icons pop up on the screen to prompt the player to press andor hold certain controller buttons. Amongst the shades of greys, interactive objects are highlighted with an Aura shining in blue, green, orange, and yellow. The colour of Aiden’s aura is highlighted by a white dot, which can be interacted with by tilting the controllerstick in its direction. The player can either engage in psychic information or retrieval by forcing one of the guards to commit suicide by forcing the mission to jeopardise the mission.
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