About Chicago Remastered:
Wanted to add my positive feelings about this, even though I haven’t finished it yet. First of all, I’d suggest you avoid watching Let’s Plays and such if you’re like me and skip around the video to try to get some idea of what the feeling is like. Parts that looked really long and laborious to me were actually pretty easy once I let myself sink in to the dialogue. We Are Chicago is a game which seems to be trying to be like Life Is Strange, but without the supernatural elements and instead with a focus on urban slice-of-life in a high-risk area. It’s low production values yes, but as long as your computer doesn’t have issues with Unity games (mine used to), you should have consistently maxed-out FPS on a modern gaming rig and that helps with immersion. You’re thrown into the life of a high school student, trying to make it to college and take care of his family at the same time, balancing loyalty to his friends with self-preservation and wisdom. While the game can be heavy-handed and extremely preachy at times about the crises that at-risk youths face, as a life simulator it does greatly and felt a lot like Indigo Prophecy to me, with pauses to immerse into your house, do menial tasks like setting the dinner table, and generally breathe life into the game’s world by connecting to it. If you focus on those parts, I think you’ll be fine. Chicago is a colorful palette of many of the world’s best and worst things, and I feel that this story represents the feeling of being there well. As someone who is a foreigner to American culture but who has visited Chicago many times.
