Infamous: First Light

OK so last night I came across this game called Infamous:First Light and the avatar called Abigail Walker aka Fetch looks just like me! I can not get over the similarity.I would like to know the opinions of others. I posted to Facebook, LinkedIn and twitter and everyone says that think its so cool how I am a dead ringer for her. Its like seeing yourself on TV or something. I also made a video on youtube so others can comment and tell me what they think. Feel free to check my facebook and all the other places I posted this. Please don't make any bad comments. I wish I would have known about this game 4 or 5 months ago.

Yeah, it's just a short and fun spin-off game. Give a try, it's super easy to Platinum.

So, here's a long story. Back in the middle / end of August 2019, I created my own PSN account before I bought the PS3 in September, and just in case for future reference, I bought this on the PlayStation website for $7.49 and I have been saving this game for a while until I finally downloaded it when I surprisingly got the PS4 for Christmas today and I had played this game for 6 hours. Can you believe it? 6 hours. Do you know how long I spend time at Disneyland? Well, sometimes 6 hours. XD So, what are my thoughts of this game? It's fun like the first 3 games I had played on the PS3 (inFAMOUS, inFAMOUS 2, and inFAMOUS: Festival of Blood). Honestly, there are some things in this game I liked better than the things from the previous inFAMOUS games, like when you play as Cole in the first 3 games, you can tell how long it'll take to climb up the walls until you reached the top and hopefully find the cable wires to slide on. In this game, you can run fast and you can be able to run up the walls. Well...for the most parts (*coughs* the cliffs *coughs*) Yeah, you'll find out once you get to play it for the first time. The coolest thing about this game is that in the previous games, you get to have Cole regenerate and refill his powers by getting close to electric powering sources as in this game, you can regenerate and refill Fetch's powers once you go near the neon signs. Yes, Cole's superpowers are in the elements of electricity in the first 3 games while Fetch has superpowers of neon. The techniques from the controller is a lot different than how I used the techniques of the controller from the previous games. I felt like it's weird, but I digress. In the end, it's a fun game. I totally recommend it if you're planning to play the inFAMOUS games chronologically like how I am right now.

Hated it. I tried this out because it was free for PS plus some ages ago and, much like Second Son, I couldn't stand the gameplay. Repetitive, frustrating and boring. What I saw of the story was equally boring and uninteresting. I doubt I'll try any other installments in this series.

InFAMOUS: Second Son, the base game, wasn't really all too polished in terms of its core aspects, primarily the story. InFAMOUS: First Light, the expansion, takes advantage of fleshing out and polishing the core aspects that Second Son failed to achieve. But the main draw of this game is its story.

First Light is a character study on one of the more interesting characters of Second Son, Abigail "Fetch" Walker. It's a personal and compelling story with themes of addiction, manipulation and loss. The story covers Fetch's background, her mind and emotions, as well as the events that lead up to her status in Second Son. It's a concise story that fleshes out its core ideas very well, with great characterization and a compelling plot.

The gameplay is also a lot more fleshed out as you have a much more focused power set - compared to Second Son's multiple power sets that were fun, but some of them lacked consistency and polish. Unfortunately, the side content is still similar to Second Son in that the open world content are still these brief and repetitive side missions with not much value, except there's even less content variety in the open world compared to Second Son. But there is a particular type of side content introduced in First Light, which is a survival arena mode that challenges your skills. It's fun and challenging, sure, but once you get the hang of it and set high scores, it starts to lose its replayable flare a bit.

Overall, First Light is a lot more refined and polished in terms of gameplay, but especially in story. It's a concise story that analyses our main protagonist and fleshes her out in every way, with great writing and storytelling. The gameplay is a lot more focused, but lacks content variety.