It is that time again Gamers and I, your amazing Squad Leader of the Shores of Yor MumsHous is bring you the word of an amazing game brought to us by Compulsion Games and you guessed it in one. I’m being nice so that means I liked the game and that is correct, so lets stop eyeing up the old hump football and get this show on the road.
South of Midnight is an amazing minty fresh take on southern folklore and fables such as Brier Rabbit minus the Slurs, anyone with even a twinkle of that “Old South” way of thinking is the devil in this game and that the closest to s spoiler you are going to get out of me. Now from the start I was blown away by the polished stop motion animation crafted for premium screens, If that was the original plan for the game, that would have been a hard sell for gameplay. However, the in game cutscenes and gameplay style are very much of a story book look and feel. While still displaying the character’s facial expressions smoothly and not having sharp lines that look less refined, the color schemes where amazingly well done for the game and I didn’t feel as if I needed a sun filter for lens flares that has become painfully common.
This is not a “Storytime” bedtime story, this storyline has some openly deep dark narratives that tastily touch on the tragic norms of growing up in “Old South” communities. South of Midnight gives the Gamer a much-needed uplifting tale of a Hero’s journey and finding themselves through the discovery of their true destiny. I know it’s pretty sprinkles and rainbows in thought, but its fangs and evilness at its core. Now, I’m not going to even give you a rundown of the story. I know, I know, JERK!, that’s because this game deserves your full attention and the time it takes to play it. It is a quick play through, simple combat, and very little world exploring, that’s because it’s all about that story. Which is worth every bit of time it took to make it, as I just said three lines ago. But some great take aways of this game is that, yes, it is a simple straight forward in concept of mechanics and I had very little issues, if any with control responses. The game only crashed once while transitioning from cut scene to a load screen, lost no time or effort to just restart, there are some very on the rails moments that do happen in the game that is repetitive and could have been slightly changed up, but overall, nothing to raid a village over.
I even enjoyed the fact that this game is not super gory, overly violent, or run afoul with unneeded sex. There is some course use of the word Fuck, but other than that this a dark rooted story of tragedy and heartache that younger Gamers shouldn’t be able to relate too. There is even a touch of religion in there and only because the concepts of Faith, Family, and Religion are the cornerstone of much of Southern culture being displayed in the game. The best thing I love about this game is how the developers left beautiful little story crumbs for later use and the ending itself is done in such a way that as long as Compulsion Games doesn’t get bullied by Microsoft to change the way they are doing things, I don’t see why this same formula can give us easily a little DLC and two more games to tie off this character arch nicely.
Now lastly Gang comes my closing words on South of Midnight, if anyone leaves a review or tells you that this game is woke or DEI, they lack the ability to form thoughts of their own and probably have a reading level a smidge higher than a 2nd grader or have some racist tendencies they don’t like to talk about. Play South of Midnight Gamers, play deeply, passionately, and SWEEEETTTLLLYYY!
