Dispatch
Critic Reviews for Dispatch
Excellent Rated M for Mature episodic experience with superheroes and stuff
Overall, Dispatch delivers a gripping narrative experience with beautiful presentation and well-crafted dialogue choices. While it offers limited direct interaction, its storytelling depth more than makes up for it. For fans of dialogue-driven adventures, this is a must-play, and you'll finish it with a genuinely satisfying feeling.
Review in Persian | Read full review
We're only at the beginning, but for now, we feel like giving Dispatch top marks across the board. The gameplay is never boring and brings just the right amount of variety to the narrative genre: it's hard to take your eyes off the screen when you have a team of trouble-making heroes at your disposal, ready to be sent out to solve emergencies around the city! The voice acting, writing and animations are simply fantastic. The story, a mix between The Boys and The Office, is irreverent, and we're curious to find out where it's going. We'll talk about it again when the adventure is over, but one thing is certain: we can't wait to continue this curious video game!
Review in Italian | Read full review
The game comes across as a direct successor to Telltale’s lineage that’s similarly defined by sharp dialogue, fleshed-out characters, and difficult choices (which are of dubious narrative importance). Having played the first two chapters out of eight, I’ll be there weekly to see where this superpowered workplace comedy goes next.
This isn’t just a comedy game. It’s a story about finding meaning after loss, about how we carry grief without letting it define us. The writing has moments of silence and softness that stick with you and make you want to replay the episodes again and again. This might be strange to say, but this game is something truly beautiful.
Dispatch is ambitious without going too far, polished without seeming dull, and most importantly, it's a "dispatch" that's worth every cent you spend on it (sorry for making that pun again). AdHoc has created something that pays tribute to Telltale while still making its own way. The game is both fun and emotionally moving.
AdHoc Studio has created an intriguing premise for a narrative game in Dispatch, a “workplace comedy” in a novel setting. Buoyed by a stellar cast that strikes just the right balance of “aha, so that’s who that is” in its celebrity status with powerful performances from its heavyweights, the first two episodes of Dispatch left me thoroughly wanting more. While Dispatch does lack some of the freedom of prior Telltale experiences (at least thus far), the quality of the narrative and presentation is enough to get me hooked for now. I’m eagerly anticipating Episodes 3 and 4, and I can’t wait to share my thoughts on them with you all soon. In the meantime, if a lower-stakes, more comedic narrative experience in a superhero world speaks to you, Dispatch is worth checking out.
There's a ton of potential and promise in DISPATCH's first few episodes. It sets up an engaging premise and situation with two familiar tropes: superhero shows and office workplace comedies. The superhero dispatching gameplay is clearly a simpler version of an emergency response simulation title by design, but it is fun to play through, especially with the witty banter that goes on as you keep putting up figurative and literal fires in the city. The cinematics and animation are beautiful and serve their purpose in being half an animated series of the streaming service variety, and the voice-work and acting are top-notch.
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