About thirty deaths later on "The Drifter"...

My own ex has never been this helpful...

After last time playing The Drifter, I've died and returned at least thirty times. The bad guys had me cornered at the graveyard, and it took a bit to escape. I wound up at Annie's house, Mick's sister, where Sarah, Mick's ex-wife was able to help me out some. I had to travel back and forth between the different locations a lot trying to find information that could help me.

Aha! A computer! That'll surely hold some answers...

Of course when I found something I could use, the bad guys caught up with me again and I had to be creative to escape, dying several times before I figured out the correct sequence of events to get me to safety. To be honest, I thought the rewinds would be more frustrating, but it's actually not that bad and I was always able to find the solution relatively fast.

What goes up, must come down...

I really like the graphical style of The Drifter. It's pixel art, but the scenes seem to glow. The use of lighting is gorgeously done. The dialogues and voice actors are simply brilliant. I also like how slower scenes alternate the tense once where split decisions mean the difference between life or death. Or, well, temporary death...

So little to work with, yet so long until I figured it out...

After spending what felt like eternity in captivity of someone adamant on performing brain surgery on me, trying to get free time and time again and getting blasted in the face or in the chest over and over again too, I've reached chapter six after 4,5 hours of playing. It's amazing that many times when I think I have found the solution, it backfires and it turns out I have to do something completely different, or change some conditions beforehand. Now it's time to come with a plan, together with some unlikely new allies...

You can buy The Drifter on Steam or on GOG.