The Lion's Song: Episode 4 - Closure DLC

It hurts

got all wrong endings lol

an amazing ending to an amazing story

Yes and no. After playing all four episodes I grew quite tired of the game machanics. Clicking and clicking... and dialogues and more clicking... meh. And there is not a lot more to do. Overall I like plotdriven games with a great atmosphere and all the storylines in "The Lion's Song" are really carefully thought over, but on the other hand felt a bit too constructed. They do not flow naturally. And I really do not know about replay value. Of cause you can try and make different decisions, but in the end I am not sure, if they make any significant differences. And... I have to say it... I absolutely dislike the graphics. All the pixels and the red and yellow tones. After playing for an hour or so my eyes started glitching and hurting everytime I looked up into the real world. Fo example... I played "What remains of Edith Finch" three times now and I will definitly go back to that game because there are details I am still missing, but here? I am not sure. Conclusion: Actually "The Lion's Song" is not a game, it is about reading a lot of dialogue and then randomly choosing dialogue options, if you are fine with this, go ahead! You get quite some storys! It is still great and I like to recommend it, because of the atmosphere and the music and all the effort the developers put in this game. But compared to other storydriven games, this is to me only average.

[h1]Short version: 68%[/h1] If this was a free epilogue instead of a paid DLC, it would have a higher score. The writing is still great, as it shows three small segments on how the protagonists of previous episodes touched the lives around them… However, it is too short with barely anything beyond a generic “war is bad” message, so it feels more like a bonus story than like a proper finale. [h1]Long version:[/h1] An easy way to write an ending for an anthology series is to come up with a framing device that ties all stories together. In the Lion’s Song, this device is a train ride, where the final protagonist meets three people who all have some connections to the heroes of previous chapters, so they can pass the time by recounting some of their own thoughts on matters already witnessed. As an anthology within an anthology, ‘Closure’ works spectacularly… if we only concentrate on the clever tools the writers used, and nothing else. However, it fails to live up to its own title, since it does not give any closure beyond a set of generic ending cards in front of a World War I backdrop, with a predictably tacky and soppy anti-war message instead of some texture. Ironically, this could work much better as a freebie farewell episode for those who were along for the ride. As a supposed finale that costs the same amount as the much longer middle episodes, it just feels like a last-minute addition to attach a “the end” screen on the game—even though its events were foreshadowed since the very start of the series.

[b] “Wilma? A prodigy? Lol no.” Otto, Wilma perfectly played violin her first time holding one. I think she is. [/b] Oh, what a ride we had. Starting as a young violinist named Wilma struggling to make her debut piece; then as an up-and-coming painter named Franz who can see people’s layers, but not his own; and lastly as Emma, a female mathematician who disguised herself as a man so she could get help on her theory. In the last Lion’s Song Episode, Closure, we actually join in on the people who got on a train at the beginning of each episode. It turns out, each of them were involved with Wilma/Franz/Emma in some degree, with Bert hearing it all (and possibly writing it down?). From episode 1, Wilma’s brother, Otto, tells the story of her sister. Not what happened after her concert, though he will play her piece, but before she left for Vienna. You’ll get to see when she was discovered, when she first started playing (and how gifted she was from the start), and how she always took inspiration from the world around her. Next, you’ll join Paul from episode 2. Paul is a forger and while he didn’t necessarily have contact with Franz, Franz was his favorite artist to copy. Lastly, you’ll see what happened after Emma’s showdown with Zahler from Theodor’s perspective. Being one of Emma’s students, Theodor retells Emma’s relationship with some of the students, how the other Radius members are doing, and Emma’s future plans to his companions. Once all three of them finish, it’s revealed that they enlisted (or drafted) to fight in World War 1. With Bert, this episode’s protagonist who was writing all this down, being a lieutenant who will hopefully publish their, and other’s, stories someday. Closure holds most of what your decisions amounted to as well. You get to see how Franz’s painting turned out and what happened depending on if you humiliated Zahler or not, with the rest showing up in the closing scenes (like Wilma’s future if she wanted to be with Arthur or go back home and how successful her song was). The closing scenes not only showed what happened to the three main protagonists, but to the ones that were connected to them. Sadly, we don’t get any word on how Bert turned out. This is the perfect time to talk about The Lion’s Song’s Connections, which I believe wasn’t available till this episode came out. Each episode has their own art gallery-esque room that displays the connection other episodes had with it. Like the painting Franz painted at the end of episode 2 will be in episode 4’s gallery. This does mean if you’re intending to get all the achievements, you’ll have to replay The Lion’s Song a lot. Hopefully you haven’t been replaying each episode to get the achievements before continuing on. While you replay from a decision, if you messed up anywhere, you’ll have to restart again. Not to mention that some connections require you to restart the chapter again anyway (like gaining Grete’s affections). However, this messes up the timeline for episode 1. Even though Wilma’s song is played at the beginning of episode 2 and she makes an appearance in episode 3 (as well as Leos showing up if you encouraged him to call Nikol), the connections imply that it took place after. Wilma can find Franz’s sketch of her if you decided to sell it, Emma’s name will be in the Elements of Change book, and a letter will change if you won Grete’s affection as Franz or not. I get the intention, but it doesn’t work out since Wilma wrote her song first. While Closure doesn’t necessarily give us closure for each character we met, it did show us a perspective outside of the three protagonists and how they touched the world around them. Not to mention that we finally get to see when The Lion’s Song took place in a surprising reveal. Well, unless you were curious if Klimt from episode 2 was real (fun fact, the painting he’ll paint with the special paint seems to be the portrait of Adele Bloch-Buer). I do wish we got some more episodes for The Lion’s Song, but what we have is great. If Mi’pu’mi Games decides to bring us another game, I will certainly be ready to play it in a heartbeat. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/RipWitch/recommended/437160] Episode 1: Silence review [/url] [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/RipWitch/recommended/459140] Episode 2: Anthology review [/url] [url=https://steamcommunity.com/id/RipWitch/recommended/477020] Episode 3: Derivation review [/url]