Dispatch

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

A cape management sim from the crew at AdHoc - a renegade mob of escaped TellTale devs - and the Critical Role crew.

 

Bob Robertson/MechaMan (Aaron Paul) is facing forced and humiliating retirement from hero life. However redemption - of a sort - comes with a job offer from Blonde Blazer (Laura Bailey: Critical Role/Vox Machina/etc). All he has to do is use his experience to match which super(s) ought to be matched to which mission, help guide them through, and use his hacking and tactical skills to keep them ahead of the enemy.

 

Sounds simple enough...?

 

Similar to the Telltale model, the game is released in bi-weekly chunks, and while the management piece is important, managing and motivating your team via dialogue trees is also going to determine your success or failure.

 

Paul and Bailey are joined by Jeffrey Wright, deadpanning his way through some choice lines, plus assorted Critical Role castmembers and a number of their friends and family. Visuals look decent and a nice balance of humour and drama.

 

If the game proves successful, there will also be a tie-in TTRPG, live-action events, an animated series, and, of course, merch.

 

What do we think?

Edited Wednesday at 06:12 PM by ThaOGDreamWeaver

[El D]

I played the Steam demo for this a while back and enjoyed it. The voice acting is really solid, the writing is engaging and fun, and the game mechanics are interesting enough to keep your attention and require consideration to both the characters and the on-going story. Sending out the different heroes to fitting emergencies was definitely more enjoyable than the hacking part, though. It had a very Paragon City-esque atmosphere and setting, though the tone was a more 'adult streaming series' than CoH's content tends toward. It's like Invincible meets The Office. If you liked TellTale's past entries (The Walking Dead, Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands) I imagine you'll like this.

[Skyhawke]

I've had my eye on this one and I've liked what I've seen. That being said, I'll wait until all the parts are out and purchase (as I did with various TellTale games). 

[Latex]

Posted the same thread in comic/hero culture!

It's a fun story and avoids a lot of the usual tropes. Animation quality is absurdly good, I prefer it to Invincible by far, voice acting is 9/10 across the board. As for it's Gameplay, eh! 

[VPrime]

13 hours ago, Latex said:

Posted the same thread in comic/hero culture!

It's a fun story and avoids a lot of the usual tropes. Animation quality is absurdly good, I prefer it to Invincible by far, voice acting is 9/10 across the board. As for it's Gameplay, eh! 

 

Is this in the Invincible universe or something?

[Latex]

3 hours ago, VPrime said:

 

Is this in the Invincible universe or something?

Oh no, it's separate completely, it's own thing.