Bloodshore delivers what it advertises: as a true interactive movie, it provides some decent schlock here and there, but ultimately its narrative and characters come up lacking.
Bloodshore
Wales Interactive · Nov 3, 2021
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Bloodshore is an interactive action movie about a televised battle royale between high-profile streamers, entertainers and death row inmates. You control the fate of Nick, a washed-up actor who fights for a life-changing cash prize. All is not what it seems in this latest season of Kill/Stream, the hottest reality TV show on the planet. Can Nick uncover the truth about Bloodshore Island before his time runs out?
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- 5.0Bloodshore‘s short running time is ideal for a game of this type – it should feel like an interactive movie, after all. But it also means that there’s little time to waste on plot-building and establishing a relationship between the player and the character. Ultimately the person you’re in control of feels little more like a face in a crowd, and so you’ll likely not care whether he lives or dies.
- 7.6If you turn your brain off and go along for the ride it really doesn’t matter. Everyone appears to be having fun and that gusto carries some of the weaker moments. This becomes the crux of what makes Bloodshore great, it isn’t aiming for high-minded art but at larger-than-life entertainment with energy and gusto. As long as you, the audience, are game then you will have a blast.
- 6.0Overall, though, Bloodshore is still one of the better examples of the FMV revolution. It's a lot of fun to experience, and leans into the cheese that both successfully works with a lot of FMV games, and for examples of the stories it is emulating. The game has its issues, but as a hokey piece of B-movie fun it's worth replaying to find its various story strands.
- 7.0Don't pick up Bloodshore until it fixes some of its scene-stitching issues. Even once this gets fixed, Bloodshore's greatest strengths are at its margins, and its core somewhat works against it to serve up pretty traditional FMV schlock.
- Bloodshore is set up in a way that encourages repeat viewings, but whether you'll want to experiment, take every path, and see every ending is questionable. You might be better off popping Squid Game on the telly instead.
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