exodus To be honest I hadn’t watched Lethal Weapon from beginning to end, it was the kind of movie I watched for like half an hour when I saw it on TV (and when I used to watch TV, been without doing that for like 10 years), but good to know I can avoid it lol
Anyway! I decided to check Raw Danger/Disaster Report 2 because everyone’s comments of it being a great Christmas game and speaking from just the first hour or so I would say it gave me more disaster movie vibes. Although I realize now that The Firemen definitely has that thing going on too so what I would maybe say is that the Firemen is something like The Towering Inferno + Die Hard, while Disaster Report leans towards The Perfect Storm/Titanic?
With these two games talking about cinematographic references and comparisons feel extremely relevant because it is obviously a thing they are trying to channel and evoke, but at the same time feel so fundamentally different to other (mostly western) attempts at doing the same thing, like The Last of Us or Red Dead Redemption and I wonder why it feels that way! Maybe because in the case of The Firemen and Raw Danger they seem to be more about finding inspiration while also trying to translate those movies into proper mechanical and game designs, while Naughty Dog’s or Rockstar stuff end up feeling more like copycats.
Also, kind of fun to think about what The Firemen and Raw Danger have in common while at the same time they have opposing elemental forces, fire vs water! lol
