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| We won't yet be riding into that sunset... |
Last time I played The Drifter, I had found myself with a new team of unlikely allies. In a short Chapter Six, I located the possible HQ of the bad guys. Together with two companions, I set out to infiltrate said HQ, and I was getting ready for a grand finale.
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| Reminds me of a certain secret voodoo hounfour... |
Soon, however, it turned out the place wasn't as villainous as I had expected. Quite the opposite, in fact. Still, I didn't quite believe what I saw, nor what everyone there was telling me. Especially that John Hammond grandfatherly type of character. And there were lots of other people telling me stuff as well. Chapter Seven therefore was a pretty long chapter, with a new setting I kept getting turned around in, and many conversations and running back and forth basically doing errands for everyone to finally find my way toward the REAL finale of the game, with yet another new team of unlikely allies, like that German Ludger Brink type of scientist...
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| Meet my new team of unlikely allies... |
Aaaand of course my hunches proved to be right, and with the bamboozlement uncovered, that slow chapter gave way to a couple of very intense final ones that expertly combined humor with horror, and I finished the game in a total of 9 hours. Where a bit earlier in the game I didn't expect
The Drifter to leave such a lasting impression eventually, the story picks up again with an amazing pace and a very fulfilling final showdown. Now I see why everyone was so over the moon about this game, and it will certainly completely rearrange my top ten of 2025.
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| MacGyvered myself a flamethrower... |
Normally I'd alternate to a classic adventure game starting in Chicago of the late 1930s next, but since there has been a particular new release I've been looking forward to for a while now this week, I'm taking a small detour to Louisiana of the
early 1930s...
You can buy
The Drifter on
Steam or on
GOG.
