"I love you brother, and I'm sure gonna miss you."

inFAMOUS Second Son is such a fun game. The powers are creative, the effects, especially sfx, are fantastic, and the combat is satisfying.

The story is relatively weak, especially compared to the first two games, but the characters are still pretty good, on the good karma route at least. It's pretty clear they didn't think too hard about there actually being an evil playthrough because it's incredibly unsatisfying and the dialogue in neutral scenes isn't changed to show your alignment.

Delsin, as a protagonist is decently likable. He's not too heroic, unlike Cole, and he's not that funny (except for a couple specific jokes). The side characters are pretty good, Fetch and Reggie stand out the most to me, especially Reggie in a good karma run and Fetch in evil karma. Eugene and others are pretty eh, except Celia I really enjoyed the Paper Trail side missions and her character.

Augustine is not a great villain, to be honest. She's supposed to be a hateable villain until it's revealed why she founded the D.U.P., and it didn't really work, because she continued being unlikable.

The soundtrack, though, is by far the best part of the game. It's so peak.

85/100.

Reviewed on Oct 11, 2023


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