paradise lost review

Paradise Lost Review: ‘A story worth seeing with gameplay worth missing’

By Michael Leri

Paradise Lost Review for PS4.

Video games love to use World War II as a backdrop (perhaps a little too much). Nazis make great cannon fodder and the morality of that war pretty cut and dried. But many of those games are shooters and not a lot of them stray into alternate history, two aspects that make walking simulator

  • Interesting environments have an awe-inspiring sense of scale.
  • Szymon’s personal story mixes in well with the other threads.
  • Centering the game around the five stages of grief is a clever framing tool.
  • No puzzles or engaging gameplay.
  • Some twists are pretty obvious and unsubtle.

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Michael Leri
Michael Leri

Michael Leri is Evolve's senior gaming editor. He prides himself on playing and finishing as many video games as he can in all sorts of genres from shooters to platformers to weird indie experiments. There's always something to learn from rolling credits and that thirst for experience and knowledge is mostly what drives him. You can find him on Twitter, Backloggd, Bluesky, and Letterboxd as @OrangeFlavored.

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