The Casting of Frank Stone™ Reviews

I'm going to go against the general consensus here and say that this game is actually really good. I like the graphics, the visual design, the characters and acting, the score, and the newly added Cutting Room Floor mechanic. I also like how they upped the gore/violence, however I do have to agree that you don't feel threatened for most of the game. I also agree that the plot feels a bit slow and incomplete, like it needed to be grander, much more dynamic. Adding to that, I also don't think the Behavior/Dead by Daylight collaboration helped at all. With that said, I'm even okay with the plot as is. This is the most Lovecraftian title under Supermassive, and as an avid fan of Lovecraft, I'm okay with not everything being explained, some plot points being a bit confusing or muddy, and the ending being existentially dreadful. However, I also understand that this caused a lot of people to feel like the game is lackluster, thus it being a bit of a flop. Overall, I personally like it, mostly for the visuals, the aesthetics and for the vibes, but I don't think this game is for everyone, and that's totally valid.

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I'm supermassive fan from China, l like your Chinese dub, it's really funny. Please have it in your next project Directive 8020. Not a game company do this kind game beside supermassive so l will really support.

I don't think the game is that bad as the comments say it is. Would definitely recommend to try to people who loves spooky horror games. Especially when the game is on discount.

I ended up getting everyone killed. Arguably my worst playthrough of any supermassive games game in terms of character survivability so a little disappointed with my ending. Really enjoyed the story though and a few of the characters, though find it to be far too short a game to expect a full price purchase of. On sale though, suppose I can recommend it.

4.5/10 bad performance and the story is fckin sucks

Very conflicted game, has a bunch of issues, sometimes animations and scenes are very wooden, heavy-handed or staccato, but in other moments it absolutely wowed me. Apparently it has massive technical issues, I did not experience those, game ran great for me. Story was pretty good even as someone who never played bead by daylight, but the main star of the game were the environments, set pieces and the general presentation. I'd give it a sympathetic 7/10 could've been an 8 or maybe even a 8.5 if the devs finished cooking the dish I think the steam reviews (currently 62%) are a bit too harsh, but I also have a 5090 PC and the game ran great for me. I could potentially see why people with bad performance felt less forgiving to the game for its other flaws

Was super excited for this game, unfortunately, found it to be borderline unplayable due to audio glitches, tried all my settings, nothing seems to do the trick.

Obviously the game doesnt play like dbd at all despite having aspects of the game play in it. However, If you are into DBD LORE, totally grab this game. My wife and I had fun playing through it. A solid story with quite a few different paths to take. Dialogue choices that actually say what you select. Tons of neat dbd easter eggs. After playing it I feel like its CRIMINAL we dont have a lot of these characters in dbd. It was a good time. A play through will likely take around 5 hours if you are actually soaking everything in. Its meant to be played through a few times. You can also start from different parts of the game after you have gone thru if you just want to see what happens or start from a certain point. If you are only kind of interested or unsure, wait for a sale. I thought it was a good time and cant wait to run it back.

I had fun with the game. Despite this, I SERIOUSLY want you to wait for a sale. I just wanna let you know my ass is NOT a game reviewer so expect not the best breakdowns in this review (occasional minor and mid spoilers ahead) Now thats out of the way, yes, there are some things I am not in favor overall but if you lower your expectations and have fun with friends and/or family, you will enjoy this. This game is mostly why I tried DBD so I wouldn't miss the million references it was about to show of the game (other than the fnaf collab), and i'm loving Dead by Daylight rn btw! Also before reading any further I played ts from the Supermassive Games side of the community if you couldn't tell, so my main motive to try this out was because it was a choice based game XD. [h2] PACING [/h2] Anyways I like that they try to not make every chapter one of every SMG game start off at a very happy setting and joyful with just introducing the main cast in the morning then it goes till nighttime and THEN the game starts. They have 2 stories and 2 sets of characters that you have to keep track of, potentially a choice affecting the other story across different time periods. What I am in favor of this is that they could easily have just started with the 1980 plotline for chapter 1 because of what i said prior but instead it starts with night off the bat at the 2024 storyline to get a glimpse of whats to come later on. I have heard some said going through TCoFS was pretty dreadful, but I simply just disagree because I genuinely didn't lose interest or hate certain things like the story that much compared to what others say about their experience. [h2] CHOICES AND VARIATIONS [/h2] I appreciate the fair bit of varying dialogue trees here from there so I encourage replays because there are lots of differences in scenes surprisingly even at early segments, in which The Cutting Room Floor exists to help you on that but just know it only can be usable after beating the base game. The game also greatly encourages you to NOT be nice all the time but instead balance between being fierce/bold and calm/smart for both dialogue and choices, shit even being a coward (have a brain) potentially saves a character but then again you should know when to be one to survive. [h2] GAMEPLAY (don't expect much LOL) [/h2] Cant say much cause majority were already done in previous SM installments. The use of skill check as replacement of qtes is.... ok, I just wish it was utilized more than just face value of what it is. Though I fw the camera gameplay because it has never been used in any SMG game that actually affects the gameplay and story (TDiM, i'm looking at you...) ever so I love seeing something new AND practice how to aim lol. [h2] CHARACTERS [/h2] This roster for me is pretty okay, Chris was my least favorite but still not terrible and Sam is the goat for facing his biggest opp and fucking him up. Bonnie should have had more screentime than what she got and deserved to be playable at least for a little bit because she's more intriguing among other characters. Stan genuinely was the only mofo to make this game a lot more interesting than what its supposed to be. He was a pretty unlikable dude but he ensures entertainment regardless of that. Augustine is the perfect villain for Casting of Frank Stone because she does it for the love of the game so in other words, pure evil. [h2] HORROR [/h2] Erm.. nothing to say much here. Don't get me wrong the settings and models of houses and buildings and such are designed well so I admit its creepy but I was never shitting my pants, which I hoped since the Dark Pictures Anthology never scared me that much. Only rare startles but a few of them are not even from jumpscares the volume just became loud all of a sudden upon switching scenes [h2] BUGS AND GLITCHES [/h2] Damn, there are quite a few bit of it especially played at release date based on the update logs. Good call they didnt make an online multiplayer mode cause all hell would break loose XD. Don't be discouraged though it wont really screw up your playthrough or visually disrupt the game, its noticeable but thats it. finally, the [h2] STORY [/h2] This is an explanation of why the gameplay of Dead by Daylight happens in the first place and its cool i guess, thats it. Jokes aside some might not like the switching of the filming (1980's) story and the final gathering (2024's) story, but I love it because it's very experimental and like to see more of it, i'd like to see more of a more better version of it in future choice based games installments. Though i personally am in favor of the "present" storyline because they kinda drop the past one in act 3 in most variations and i wanna say more but its super spoiler territory so i'll leave it at that. [h1] OVERALL [/h1] Like I said, this wont be for everyone but if you have fun with it along friends its not a bad experience to get by (i highly suggest you to play DBD or show interest of it for a better experience). 7/10 [b] P.S. This is my first thought out review thanks for reading! :) [/b]