Sublustr The Casting of Frank Stone Review

Short, light and entertaining, this typical Supermassive Games product cannot be compared to the masterpieces of "Until Dawn" and "The Quarry", but it still is a wholesome and nice installment of its own. As in other Supermassive games, the player controls several characters whose interconnected decisions determine the glorious (or gore-eous, hehe) outcome: who will survive the night(s) of terror... The story doesn't run as deep as in aforementioned "Until Dawn" and "The Quarry", but it's still engaging and fun to play through. Multiple branching choices of different characters across different (yet interdependent) timelines and a non-linear structure of the game make for a fun re-play experience. Many times I was like "WHOA I didn't even get that on my first playthrough, THAT character wasn't even in this time and place!" The addition of the "cutting room floor" feature helps a lot with re-playing: now you can select a specific cutscene to re-do instead of starting over the whole chapter. You still can't skip cutscenes though, which is a bummer; that hasn't changed. Overall I'd say it's a decent, wholesome 6.5/10 experience: the story is entertaining, the characters are likeable, and the replayability potential is IMMENSE. At the same time, the game is rather short, has poor performance and several critical bugs. The collectibles are uninteresting and add little to the world of Frank Stone; the whole trinket-hunting routine can be skipped for the better. "The Casting of Frank Stone" hardly merits its full price of staggering 40$, but I got it on sale for about £5 and couldn't have been happier! Verdict: don't expect much if you're a Supermassive die hard fan, DON'T get it full price, wait for sale, enjoy!