Beacon Pines Demo - A Story about ____, Where Words Can Alter Fate in a Town with a Dark Secret
30Demo playthrough of Beacon Pines, an upcoming adventure game where the player is reading a magical storybook of a town with dark and dangerous secrets and you find word charms that can be input at significant moments to change the course of the story (including returning to earlier points to explore new branches). The player controls a young boy getting swept up in investigating these stranger things in town with their friends. With such a welcoming atmosphere in a small town surely nothing can go wrong?
While we don't get too see too much branching off in action currently since the demo requires a specific path with using charms, I'm very interested in seeing how much branching occurs in the full game. The art and music are also very nice, and it feels quite like Stranger Things or Goonies.
If you try to ignore getting charms it won't work - you are forced to get Chill, Change, and Strange to advance the story. It also remains to be seen if the difference between Struggle and Escape at the end of the demo would produce different paths in the full game.
0:00 Intro
0:32 Chapter 1
7:33 Charms Explanation and Lying to Granny
13:36 Meeting Roxy and Chilling Out
19:28 Hazmat Worker and Death(?)
20:33 Rewinding Time to Meeting Roxy (and being a little shit)
22:52 Abandoned Warehouse with Rolo
28:20 Chapter 2
31:02 Rolo Missing
33:13 Meeting Beck
35:18 Bullies
36:49 Breaking out the Tickles
38:59 Breaking out the Strange
40:28 Hazmat Worker with Struggle/Escape Options (both lead to alternate Chapter 2)
41:53 Alternate Chapter 2 (Rolo is safe)
If you are interested in trying the demo or keeping up with the game their Steam page is here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1269640/Beacon_Pines/
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