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The Council: Episode 2 - Hide and Seek
The Council is an episodic game that delivers a fresh new take on the narrative adventure genre. Make hard-hitting decisions, develop an array of skills, and directly impact how the story unfolds. With permanent, long-lasting consequences, there is no going back. Continue your adventure, find your mother and live with the consequences of your choi...
Details
- Released
- May 14, 2018
- Developer
- Big Bad Wolf
- Genres
- Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure
- Publisher
- Focus Entertainment
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The Council: Episode 2 - Hide and Seek Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
The Council continues to build momentum with another excellently crafted episode.
The puzzles, while not all of them were hard, they were intriguing and fun. As a person who loves mythology, I thoroughly enjoyed the maze puzzle. There are plenty of things I would have done differently but the fun of the game is to progress even when you fail. I'm looking forward to the next episode when it releases. How did yours end? Did you enjoy any of the puzzles? Let me know that and your thoughts on this episode down below.
Hide and Seek pushes the story forward and ends on an interesting cliffhanger that raises a lot of questions. The heavy focus on puzzles over decisions and optional choices provide less variety than episode 1. What Hide and Seek accomplishes is providing a variety of puzzles that take advantage of your skill set.
The search for Louis de Richet's mother is put to one side as we look to solve a murder, but is it enough for The Council: Episode 2 - Hide And Seek to still hold our interest?
The Council - Episode 2: Hide and Seek does bring more interesting characters and puzzles into the mix, and I am definitely curious to see where The Council's plot as a whole goes from here. Sadly, Hide and Seek is ultimately a poor follow up to The Mad Ones, resulting in a short, technically flawed, and an overall disappointing episode that has killed some the anticipation I had for future episodes of The Council.
I really don’t have much else to say. Episode 2 of The Council somehow manages to be worse than the first, despite adding some great puzzle design onto the already impressive narrative gameplay. I suppose if you’ve plunked down the price for the whole season you may as well play through it, and in that case, I’ll see you when the third episode releases and I have to build up the courage to enter into this world that is becoming increasingly less interesting.