The game is going through a “narrative reboot”
This isn’t the first game that the global pandemic has caused delays for, and I’m sure it won’t be the last. I certainly don’t begrudge anyone for needing a little more time, even if I was excited to see big angsty teen lizards.
They also say they changed a lot about character motivations and personalities.
“I think when you join a game already in motion, the first couple weeks are a bit like putting together a puzzle. You have a lot of pieces left over from the original narrative, and you sort of have to pick through them,” said narrative designer Kim Belair.
“You have all of these assets already developed, bits of animation already done, gameplay sequences mapped… so you really are doing the work of making connections and building narrative between them, rather than coming in and making something from the ground up.”
“We also had to reverse engineer certain story decisions that we would have treated differently if we were starting from scratch. A bit like an elaborate game of exquisite corpse,” added writer Camerin Wild.
It sounds like they have their work cut out for them, especially given the game has a branching narrative. For now, we’ll have to wait until 2022 to see how this reboot goes. When it does come out, it’ll beon Steam, PS4 and PS5.
