Having to do another persons job, act like you know complete strangers and getting used to a different physique are all aspects which you’ll encounter in Last Stop. During our time with both these two characters and John’s funny daughter Molly we experience the craziness of swapping bodies. The story of John is that of a rather simple but well done family comedy where John, a middle aged father who is struggling with his health and his job swaps bodies with Jack, a video game developer and fitness freak. We follow John, Meena and Donna, our three characters in the following storylines. I was happy to discover the three stories are entirely different in characters, motivations and plot, which means the narrative keeps you engaged during the entire 6-7 hour journey as you jump between the different plotlines. The three characters have little in common besides residing in London.

If you want to know the ending of one of the three arcs, you’ll have to play all three of them. When the prologue is finished, you’ll get the option to choose between one of the three story arcs, but you’ll have to get through all the story arcs chronologically, so you can’t just finish one story arc completely and leave the others be. This is where everything in the story joins together. Each character arc consists of 6 episodes, some more lengthy than others, and the game ends with one final chapter. In Last Stop we follow three main characters in three seperate stories in present day London. One of the characters walks into a strange green portal and this is where the game starts for us. But at the end of this pursuit, we suddenly find ourselves in a sci-fi story. It seems one of them has stolen a police cap. We start the game as we meet two people running from the police. The story: the great, the weird and the missed opportunities First, let’s travel to London in the 1980’s. I’ve even hesitated calling this game interactive, but we’ll get to that later. Last Stop is an interesting game to write about, as the gameplay mechanics are by far the least interesting aspect of the experience. Last Stop is an interactive story by the people at Variable State, the studio responsible for the detective story Virginia. Imagine meshing together a sci-fi story, a teenage drama, a family comedy and a detective.

All of the main characters are mentioned in this review, as well as their motivations. Last Stop is a narrative heavy game, but this review doesn’t talk about any of the plots.

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