Given his prestigious résumé, it is an understatement to say that director Yoan Fanise wants to spread a message of tolerance and love for others. After the great plea 11-11 Memories Retold, which strongly condemns the horrors of war, the Frenchman uses the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall to tell the youthful fantasies of a better world with Road 96. But is the grass really greener elsewhere?
Puberty is certainly an ungrateful age to say the least. Between hard-to-control vocalizations and acne breakouts, frustration can quickly ignite an already explosive cocktail and make you want to run away. Ptria youths do not flee for a night or two from a family unit plagued by incomprehension, but from a state that is gripped by a form of latent totalitarianism. For the runaways still dreaming of a better world, there is only one solution: to gain more side than the limit by going up Route 96.
Tyrak Sea
The adventure in the form of a narrative and procedural road trip, therefore, puts us in the shoes of a courageous teenager who has been thrown lost on the streets, which, however, closely resembles a version not so far from the United States, in which two political camps, with each new departure try to take power, even if the current owner seems to enjoy some hegemony. A repeated attack by the commanding media seems to justify a somewhat vague tightening of the screws, but this is enough for more and more young people to cross north.
As in Nude and culottes, you absolutely have to swallow the kilometers: hitchhiking, bus or on foot every day is perfect to roll out a new decor, generate new encounters and get closer to the goal by trying to escape the local police. In Street 96, many parameters are random and equal dinner Highway offers a round-trip ticket to withdraw a few tickets with a credit card, to be able to afford a sandwich or a bus ticket, to meet a short travel companion or to get valuable advice for the last leg of the journey. travel, not without incidentally provoking the branch, for the form. For when the ruling power seems to take advantage of a dominant position to accuse more or less chimeric opponents without evidence, a wind of freedom seems to be able to change an entire era. Zeitgeist, I write your name.
On the way to Maine, my son
It is the first person to travel the streets, cockpits and other areas of gas stations in search of a change or objects to continue the journey. This is because the energy, logically, decreases slightly and we need to remember to eat a minimum and rest, even if it means sleeping on a pile of cardboard boxes. The management of finances and energy therefore depends on each trip and on the interlocutors who will take the flu or the sympathy according to the multiple choice dialogues that underline certain sequences.
Despite good intentions, acting and writing often lack depth, and the empathy that could arise will not succeed if one clings to the few recurring profiles whose story does not exist. The idea of multiplying the attempts at control of new protagonists actually offers a certain replay value, but also underlines their silence, which makes the exchange unnatural. However, there are some abilities such as persuasion, in which terminal hacking makes it possible to discover the same passages from different angles, but despite relatively small editions, the impression of having dealt with the subject quickly inevitably comes to an end.
96, anne kathartic
Is this Street 96 tries to play on many levels by sliding rather awkward phases of mini-games between two narrative sequences, and when the variety is there, their playful interest is often limited, and one sometimes wonders whether the gunshot, trombone, or driving sequences really were essential. The adventure also suffers from its irregular rhythm: certain sequences intersect too abruptly for the narrative effect to work properly, and the stages follow one another without always forming a coherent loop.
It is all the more regrettable Street 96 nevertheless develops a subtle and nuanced theme: beyond the staged youth flight, the two months that separate the beginning of the adventure from the fateful presidential election allow many points of view. Between the revolutionary fork and the legitimists of the ballot box, the spectrum is wide enough that everyone tries to vary approaches just to dig deeper into the beliefs of the seven recurring characters. But in order to get around the question and find out the result of the intense and repeated lobbying, it will be necessary to tirelessly take to the streets again. Presented as a procedural road trip, the new game from DigixArt effectively alternates protagonists and situations, and loops do little to take advantage of quickly unlocked capacities, but also to better manage hunger, sleep and money and thus find a way to see if a bribe of families can change the situation.
Get on your way, Jacques
Whatever happens, teenagers traveling can always rely on a high-quality soundtrack in the form of a mixtape from a past decade: with the presence of The Toxic Avenger, Cocoon or even Alexis Laugier, the music of Street 96 always makes you want to go back on the road just to enjoy a bit more of a tailored color palette and not-so-deserted landscapes. If you don’t see the end and embark on a New Game +, the DigixArt adventure will undoubtedly accompany you over thousands of kilometers, but out of your own vehicle. Isn’t that the best way to change mindsets? You have four hours.
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