Una aventura narrativa muy chula, pese a un final un pelín demasiado apresurado.

Me gusta mucho este género (que me niego a llamar walking simulator porque ese término representa todo lo que está mal con nuestra forma de entender el medio) para lo poco que lo juego. La manera en la que aprendemos a conocer a gente a través de los espacios que habitan y lo que dejan detrás de ellos es algo realmente único y especial.

Tacoma además despierta mi vena de gustillo por la ciencia ficción de anticipación con buen worldbuilding y una interfaz diegética que usa con mucho gusto para narrar su historia. Una historia que me ha atrapado y me ha hecho preocuparme mucho por los habitantes de esta estación espacial, además de tener un toque de anticapitalismo muy agradecido en estos tiempos del Mustio destruyendo Twitter día tras día con su incompetencia. Como digo, es una pena que el final sea tan accelerado que te quedes con ganas de tener un cierre más satisfactorio para todos los personajes, pero ha sido una experiencia que he disfrutado mucho aún así.

Tacoma is a tight, little sci-fi thriller set in a corporate-owned vision of the future that is depressingly possible that unfolds at your own pace as you detective your way through a recently emptied space station. Surprisingly, it's not all pessimistic. Through the dioramic scenes you discover through your sleuthing, there is a lot of love of warmth to find. At first, I was a bit cynical towards Tacoma's AR recordings. I thought I could've just experienced this story in real time. It didn't take long for me to appreciate the freedom of being able to luxuriate to my heart's content in these scenes, being able to replay a scene from whatever angle you desire and focus on whatever character you feel. The impression of these characters you're able to gleam purely from voice acting and colored low-poly skeletons is surprising detailed. Essentially having the selected scenes available from every angle allows superflurous details that almost certainly would've been cut from a film or cutscene to be viewable. You can have as deep or as shallow of a narrative experience that you want. Without spoiling anything, the story is good! Tacoma's sense of pacing and intrique are excellent and kept me engaged until the end.

I do like this game in general. I didn't finish it because of a game-breaking bug, that would have only been fixed by starting an entire new playthrough (details in the community discussion tab), which was a major downside. Otherwise, I thought the idea was cool, of the multiple branching storylines happening through different people all at the same time in the same place. I also liked the setting. Unfortunately, I just don't think it was executed particularly well. Not only are the multiple different storylines and character ambitions a little bit too much to process at the speed and sheer number at which they are thrown at you, but the game is quite boring for a majority of your time playing, just watching characters have conversations, then moving across the room, reloading time, and listening to another two characters have a conversation. I do like walking simulators, i love firewatch and what remains of edith finch, but I had a hard time getting into tacoma. If the idea still sounds interesting to you, i would definitely recommend and pray that you do not run into any bugs. Just not really a game for me, necessarily.

Gone Home no me gustó, y aún así me he puesto a probar Tacoma porque he visto que comparten duración.

No se disfruta en absoluto, y tampoco conectas con los personajes, que es de las pocas cosas que salvo de Gone Home.

Cunde porque está en el Plus, de lo contrario ni le habría seguido la pista.

Engaging story from start to finish. Left me wanting more info by the end, which is always a double edged sword of being a great sign while also carrying with it a tinge of dissatisfaction. Movement is fairly swift, but transitioning between areas is a bit slow(in fairness, this was more of a problem because I had to backtrack a bit to pick up some trophies I missed so it's not great criticism).
This is one of those games that really pushes the line of what a game is, but it's fantastic environmental storytelling is enough to justify it.

A nice, short narrative game. You go from room to room watching recordings of the space station's crew's, while you also download the AI of the station, as that was the job you were hired to do. The recordings were nice, but there weren't really anything else to do, just walk, listen, walk, listen. Which is fine, but for me the story wasn't all that interesting, until the end. The end was really good, with a good twist. And with how short the game was, the previous boring story didn't seem that long in contrast. So it was fine.

"Although Tacoma's main game mechanics may not be unique, they are expertly used. Not only do they successfully achieve a satisfying gameplay loop, they also tell a wonderful story. In terms of narrative I definitely came in with certain expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised when things didn't go as I thought. And throughout all this, you get to explore the interesting station of Tacoma, while getting to know the cast of complex and human characters. The whole experience, while short, is very worthwhile and I recommend it to anyone looking to spend 2 or 3 hours in space."