Beyond: Two Souls

 PlayStation 4
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7.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1288 Ratings

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  1. miczat
    May 19, 2023
    4
    The acting and music are great for obvious reasons (Page, Dafoe, Zimmer). The graphics are fine. The story is adequate. But the whole experience is wrecked by awful control mechanics. Beyond: Two Souls was released two years after Uncharted 3 and Witcher 2, both third-person perspectives with good movement and camera control; how did this pass playtesting?
  2. MortalShaw
    May 15, 2023
    4
    protagonista con menos carisma que una lechuga, historia zzzz y personajes zzzz, al ser una pelicula interactiva lo mas importante es la historia y los personajes y el juego falla en eso, los graficos muy lindos eso si
  3. Revolver_
    Sep 20, 2022
    4
    Beyond: Two Souls is the definition of how you can fail to make an even decent written story (and characters) in a game that has it as its only focus and relevance. I'll make it short cause this product is not worth your time and by saying that this review as well should take the bare minimum so here are ONLY A FEW cons:

    Poor written characters that forget how their personality builds    Beyond: Two Souls is the definition of how you can fail to make an even decent written story (and characters) in a game that has it as its only focus and relevance. I'll make it short cause this product is not worth your time and by saying that this review as well should take the bare minimum so here are ONLY A FEW cons:

    Poor written characters that forget how their personality builds up between chapters (yes, chronologically speaking chapters.)

    The incoherent way of how Aiden (Jodie's ally in form of a spirit) can and cannot act and the poor impact it has on the story regardless of your choices most of the time

    The failure states, you can't fail ANYTHING in this game which should lead you to a whole different story route UNTIL THE VERY END of the game, embarassing.

    These are only a few, though they shall be enough.    … Expand
  4. MaxieZeus
    Sep 12, 2022
    4
    Cliched storyline and choices barely effect the ending. A huge disappointment after Heavy Rain.
  5. Robephiles
    Jul 27, 2022
    0
    Beyond Two Souls is the only game that i would give a 0 to, because with most video games that are made by development teams of more than twenty people, there is at least something to say about the game that is positive. Beyond Two Souls though is as awful as it is pretentious and exploitative. Also, the game had a habit of not saving my progress a lot of the time, which the fact that itBeyond Two Souls is the only game that i would give a 0 to, because with most video games that are made by development teams of more than twenty people, there is at least something to say about the game that is positive. Beyond Two Souls though is as awful as it is pretentious and exploitative. Also, the game had a habit of not saving my progress a lot of the time, which the fact that it has only autosaves makes this inexcusable. I had to play parts of this video game abortion more than once to get through it.… Expand
  6. RatedRevolver
    Jun 29, 2022
    0
    A non linear bunch of nonsense. David Cage at his worst. Telling it non linear renders most of the choices irrelevant. Making it just on big pile of set pieces, that don't fit together.
  7. HuevoAlce
    Jun 27, 2022
    4
    It's really disappointing to see how awful the story is structured in this game given how great the story was in Heavy Rain.
  8. TK4EVA47
    Jun 25, 2022
    4
    I played Beyond: Two Souls Remastered in 2017 and thought it was a below average game that I disliked.
  9. l1lj4
    Apr 6, 2022
    4
    the first actual story game i ever played. it wasn't fun for me to play tho, because there's so little actual playing. it's more like a movie for me.
  10. micro10k
    Mar 27, 2022
    2
    Beyond: of two souls is a fool's game I'll give you an explanation: The story is completely boring.
    The director must be blind.
    The art direction is just disgusting, there is no game over and there is sexy.
  11. Elite_Soldier
    Nov 21, 2020
    4
    I'm just writing at least 150 characters because I wanted to save this review in a more convenient way to look back at scores that I had given stuff as a user
  12. tommydlbass
    Aug 16, 2020
    4
    This game is terrible, tries too much and does nothing new. The mechanic with the spirit was decent but the story is **** and some of the plots are horrible.
  13. Heisengerm
    Jul 31, 2020
    4
    Beyond: Two Souls is a game that tries to be so much more than it needs to be. There are many elements of the game that seem to be included just for the sake of being there, while adding very little to the overall experience. I appreciate what the game is trying to do, but I really felt like it got tangled up in itself. Ultimately, Beyond: Two Souls is a great premise held back by terribleBeyond: Two Souls is a game that tries to be so much more than it needs to be. There are many elements of the game that seem to be included just for the sake of being there, while adding very little to the overall experience. I appreciate what the game is trying to do, but I really felt like it got tangled up in itself. Ultimately, Beyond: Two Souls is a great premise held back by terrible controls and a story that tries to be too many things. I had high hopes in my first couple hours of playing, but my enthusiasm slowly drained over the last few hours until I was just waiting for the game to end.… Expand
  14. ElCaptain
    Jul 19, 2020
    0
    A travesty of a video game that fails in everyday possible excluding graphics
  15. Sus1216
    Jul 13, 2020
    4
    Después de jugar a Heavy Rain, que me pareció brillante, le tenía ganas Beyond: Two Souls. Me gustan los juegos de Quantic Dream. En esta ocasión, la decepción ha sido muy grande. En su lanzamiento, la historia se jugaba desordenada sin ningún tipo de sentido Cuando sacaron una versión del año se podía jugar en orden, Bueno, no sé que es peor. La historia carece de interés y no llegar aDespués de jugar a Heavy Rain, que me pareció brillante, le tenía ganas Beyond: Two Souls. Me gustan los juegos de Quantic Dream. En esta ocasión, la decepción ha sido muy grande. En su lanzamiento, la historia se jugaba desordenada sin ningún tipo de sentido Cuando sacaron una versión del año se podía jugar en orden, Bueno, no sé que es peor. La historia carece de interés y no llegar a empatizar con los personajes. Los escenarios son lineales con alguna zona más abierta pero nada del otro mundo. Es un juego cinematográfico que consiste en avanzar y tomar decisiones en las conversaciones que afectan a la historia y a su final. Poco más que decir, en mi caso, juego a estas aventuras por su historia y personajes, pero esta vez, ha resultado ser un desastre. Me parece el peor juego que ha hecho Quantic Dream. No lo recomiendo para nada.… Expand
  16. Fake-BigWeld
    Jul 5, 2020
    3
    While the visual presentation for the game is great and some of the character voice acting performances are top notch, unfortunately, the poor story and unlikable main character makes Quantic Dream's usual mundane "gameplay" unbearable to put up with.
  17. jgn0
    Jun 27, 2020
    2
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. **** this game

    "he found what he's looking for" p sure he's ****ing dead but yeah sure paint killing yourself to meet your dead family that doent mean **** to everyone ****ing else as a good thing

    the only reason why I gave it a 2 is because the lounge music is good and the dinner is the only good chapter in the game other than that dont even ****ing bother    … Expand
  18. AdamYahno
    Dec 16, 2019
    0
    Самое унылое дейтище Кейджа.
    Абсолютный мусор
  19. VirgonoShaka
    Aug 13, 2019
    4
    Beyond two souls in theory sounds like a very interesting idea, with great casting and voice acting, deep choices in its story and interesting plot. But in execution, it doesn't really works out. With ver lousy gameplay, controls that are confusing, can be either non responsive or super sensitive, a story with some absolute boring segments, and a lackluster conclusion, it never reallyBeyond two souls in theory sounds like a very interesting idea, with great casting and voice acting, deep choices in its story and interesting plot. But in execution, it doesn't really works out. With ver lousy gameplay, controls that are confusing, can be either non responsive or super sensitive, a story with some absolute boring segments, and a lackluster conclusion, it never really hooked me or gave me reasons to try again to make different choices. I can't really recommend, even if you like narrative based games. This one doesn't really go beyond, and seems to be lacking a soul.… Expand
  20. Br_AgSs
    Mar 23, 2019
    4
    Although the actings on this game are interesting,the story and gameplay ruins it. The game lacks good aspects of games of the genre, and fails to deliver a fun and enjoyable gameplay
  21. cerberlok
    Mar 9, 2019
    0
    1 TERRIBLE Controls

    2 TERRIBLE derivative story

    3 A HUGE step down from Heavy Rain

    my chart: Heavy Rain > Detroit > ??? > BEYOND: TWO SOULS
  22. psylife
    Sep 16, 2018
    4
    This game is essentially an endless concatenation of cliches, that are used to propel forward what is at its core an incoherent plot-line deprived of creativity. David Cage is an incompetent writer, that has somehow developed a taste for the worst that the american TV industry has to offer. What a damn waste of potential, skill, and effort this is. Detroit is a mediocre game with fantasticThis game is essentially an endless concatenation of cliches, that are used to propel forward what is at its core an incoherent plot-line deprived of creativity. David Cage is an incompetent writer, that has somehow developed a taste for the worst that the american TV industry has to offer. What a damn waste of potential, skill, and effort this is. Detroit is a mediocre game with fantastic production values.… Expand
  23. TrophyHunter14
    Aug 24, 2018
    4
    My (not so) short review of Beyond: Two Souls

    Story- 3/10 The story is all over the place. It's like a horrible version of Steins;Gate (Steins;Gate is amazing and I'm not saying that it's bad if someone misunderstood me). You have so many flashbacks that it's really hard to understand what is going on. It jumps back and forward a lot and without any order. It feels like even game    My (not so) short review of Beyond: Two Souls

    Story- 3/10
    The story is all over the place. It's like a horrible version of Steins;Gate (Steins;Gate is amazing and I'm not saying that it's bad if someone misunderstood me). You have so many flashbacks that it's really hard to understand what is going on. It jumps back and forward a lot and without any order. It feels like even game developers didn't really understand what was going on. It only starts making sense when you are close to finishing the game. Even if it starts making sense later on it's still a really bad story. It's filled with pointless arcs like the desert one. It doesn't add to the story and the characters that appear in those arcs don't appear later on. It's also very predictable. Whenever Jodie is in a tough spot and it looks like she will die, I knew she won't die. Why? Because she can't die (I'll come back to it later in the Gameplay part of reiew).

    Characters- 4/10
    I didn't care about the characters. Not because I didn't want to, but because this game didn't make me fall in love with them. It's puts you in very emotional scenes early on but I didn't get emotional because I didn't care about the characters. It should have made me care about the characters first and than put me in an emotional scene. And it doesn't help that supporting cast's dialogue is badly written. Also, did we really need the emo phase? I mean, come on. It made me cringe so much.

    Graphics- 9/10
    Graphics are the only good thing about this game. The only thing I don't like is the black line on the top and bottom of the screen which can't be disabled. I know it's supposed to make the game feel cinematic, but its very disorientating. I mean, I'm playing a game not watching a movie. Or am I?

    Gameplay (controls,combat etc.)- 3/10
    Gameplay was horrible. It's hard to look around with Aiden and properly use him but he is actually the best thing about the gameplay. You can't look around while near any interactive object because your character will interact with that object. Also there is combat... YOU CAN'T DIE! If you try to run in front of soldiers there are two scenarios:
    1. The game doesn't let you
    2. You engage in hand to hand combat
    If you do engage in combat you have quick time events. What happens if you fail them? There are three scenarios:
    1. Jodie beats the hell out of your opponent anyways
    2. Aiden kills them
    3. Some other character helps you
    I even tried suicide when soldiers almost captured me and Aiden took the gun out of my hand. The game is so easy because you can't die and I hate it. It's not a challenge at all.
    Also there is Aiden. Some people he can strangle, some kill, and to others he can't do anything. The reason for that? There isn't any. It's just there because othewise you would be overpowered (like not being able to die isn't overpowered enough...). They didn't even bother giving an explanation for that.

    Music- ?/10
    I didn't include music score because I don't feel like music is extremely important for this game. If it was horrible I would have given it a low score, and if it was amazing I would have given it an high score. The music is OK but that's about it. Tracks didn't really stand out. It felt like generic music you hear in most movies. That's why it won't change my final score.

    Decisions- 2/10
    More than 90% of decisions don't matter. I killed three people in a bar and when Nathan comes to save me he says 'Jodie are you okay?' and just ignores the dead bodies. Also when you almost choke your dad Nathan says 'You made the right choice'. Yeah, sure, encourage her to kill more people around her because that will help.

    Personal enyojment- 2/10
    I hated it from beginning to the end.

    Final thoughts:
    This game is a complete mess. It's the worst game I have ever played. Most of the games I play I consider playing again, but as soon as I finished this game I decided to never touch it again. If this review stopped one person from playing this game it would be a time well spent writing this.
    Score: 3.83    … Expand
  24. AnotherBRgamer
    Jul 22, 2018
    3
    Well, bad story, bad characters, bad controls. An ambitious and mediocre game.
  25. drlowdon
    Jun 16, 2018
    4
    David Cage, the writer/director of “games” Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain, returns and he’s seemingly learned very little from his earlier efforts. As with those previous titles Beyond: Two Souls is described as an interactive drama video game, the story this time revolving around a young woman known as Jodie who has had a psychic connection with a mysterious entity called Aiden.

    I’ll admit    David Cage, the writer/director of “games” Fahrenheit and Heavy Rain, returns and he’s seemingly learned very little from his earlier efforts. As with those previous titles Beyond: Two Souls is described as an interactive drama video game, the story this time revolving around a young woman known as Jodie who has had a psychic connection with a mysterious entity called Aiden.

    I’ll admit now that I never made it past the couple of hours of Beyond. The story itself seems to have the potential to be at least fairly interesting, especially with the excellent motion capture performance from Ellen Page, but the gameplay itself is just so dull that I couldn’t face playing for the 8-9 hours it apparently takes to finish. Describing this game as “interactive” is really stretching the definition of the word as the game funnels you down the path it wants you to follow with no input from the player other than to click a few buttons when prompted. Even more galling is the fact that, other than a few inconsequential choices here and there, you can no real impact on the way story plays out and any attempts to be stray are blocked by artificial boundaries.

    To sum it up Beyond: Two Souls is a potentially interesting two hour movie stretched out into an an almost ten hour video game.    … Expand
  26. RuslanDZE
    Jun 3, 2018
    1
    It is not a good game If a game at all and it Is not a good movie.

    Good point of the game is only graphics. They are still looks good even in 2018. Other than that...well....it is a mess. I am kinda like Heavy Rain and loved a Fahrenheit. Got this game with PS plus for free and wanted to try It out right before Detroit:Become Human Game. At first game was not bad but then oh man....    It is not a good game If a game at all and it Is not a good movie.

    Good point of the game is only graphics. They are still looks good even in 2018. Other than that...well....it is a mess.
    I am kinda like Heavy Rain and loved a Fahrenheit. Got this game with PS plus for free and wanted to try It out right before Detroit:Become Human Game. At first game was not bad but then oh man.... Pointless entire sections, I played with non chronological order original mode(how Cage intended this game) and I hated it. Game is just a big mess. I could not care less for any character in this game. Because of so little character development time was dedicated to open characters. We have random cringy moments in Navajo and CIA missions. It feels like a collection of random scenes. Or like I accidentally skipped something in a game and see only parts of the game. All of this ghost/souls story line Is not that great. I really wanted to love this "game" but even QTE which I am minority that appreciate a good QTE gameplay like Heavy Rain. It Is also looks like there is no punishment for mistakes in a game. Just waste of time. Easily one of the worst Playstation exclusive titles of all time.    … Expand
  27. alex-mos
    May 13, 2018
    3
    Some episodes are really long and dull. CIA agents behave like idiots. Second half of the game is a shame.
  28. gd01skorpius
    May 7, 2018
    1
    Lame. Complete waste of a really great concept. The camera and controls are sluggish and overly limited. The game makes you do pointless quick time events (include 6 axis movements - NOBODY LIKES 6AXIS SONY!!!) to perform actions during sequences which should be fun but end up being frustrating with boring payoffs. Each chapter is very brief but because of the controls end up getting drawnLame. Complete waste of a really great concept. The camera and controls are sluggish and overly limited. The game makes you do pointless quick time events (include 6 axis movements - NOBODY LIKES 6AXIS SONY!!!) to perform actions during sequences which should be fun but end up being frustrating with boring payoffs. Each chapter is very brief but because of the controls end up getting drawn out painfully long. At the end of each chapter is a summary of which path you chose vs everyone else, which feels pointless. In contrast to this there are moments in the game that require you to master quicktime sequences which off no other approach. I really liked the concept, but I really hated this game.… Expand
  29. USarmygamer
    Mar 7, 2018
    4
    I actually enjoyed my one play through of Heavy Rain (I admit I only paid $20 for it) so naturally I was open to B2S. It sucks whale smegma. I liked the mystery of HR enough to put up with the stupid gameplay mechanics of 'push down and then round up to left with right stick' to open a door. I couldn't and will never again play a David Cage game. Gameplay is the most important thing in theI actually enjoyed my one play through of Heavy Rain (I admit I only paid $20 for it) so naturally I was open to B2S. It sucks whale smegma. I liked the mystery of HR enough to put up with the stupid gameplay mechanics of 'push down and then round up to left with right stick' to open a door. I couldn't and will never again play a David Cage game. Gameplay is the most important thing in the video game medium imo. Not story, not graphics, GAMEPLAY. These games interactivity blow dogs for nickels. The story was nonsensical in B2S. The game is a soup sandwhich. Just soggy, falling apart crap.… Expand
  30. RyoandFlex
    May 14, 2017
    0
    This game is like a fart !
    It's almost impossible to review it as a video game as there is no real gameplay whatsoever.
    The story is utterly boring.
    The director must be blind.
    Artistic direction is just disgusting.
    Don't ever play this game !
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Mixed or average reviews - based on 30 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 30
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 30
  3. Negative: 2 out of 30
  1. CD-Action
    Feb 4, 2016
    70
    For me the most important feature of this remaster is the inclusion of the optional chronological mode. It makes the story a bit less flashy but way easier to comprehend. [01/2016, p.65]
  2. Playstation Official Magazine UK
    Jan 23, 2016
    70
    Shaky at second glance, but deserves the PS4 promotion. Remix mode and stats screens provide a fresh way into Jodie's story, should you revisit it. [Jan 2016, p.95]
  3. GameCrate
    Jan 13, 2016
    78
    Beyond: Two Souls would've fared a lot better if it had even more visual detail, other control options and extra content to make it more like a director's cut. As it stands, though, it's a great conversion of a pretty good Quantic Dream development, mind its storytelling issues and quick-time event gameplay. Plus, it won't kill your wallet being priced for only $30. That's something even invisible deities can appreciate.
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