The third episode of The Council released this past week and I missed the announcement, but managed to get it installed and completed by yesterday afternoon. Picking up right where the prior season left off, we have entered the catacombs in search of our main character’s mother. She ends up not being around, but one of Mortimer’s henchmen has been killed. President Washington finds you with the dead body and for whatever reason doesn’t immediately believe you to be the murderer, but wants you to attend the big meeting the entire story is centered upon, since your mother is still missing. Here’s where the meat and potatoes of the episode gets going.
Without being too spoilery, the meeting starts off with a fairly split group and only a few days to reach a conclusion via vote. You’re tasked with swaying some of the members’ votes, and then things go from bad to worse. A couple of main characters die. You finally find your mother. The supernatural is brought into question and sort of threw me for a loop. See, I was enjoying the fact that this was a political drama and though there are many religious and mythological references throughout, it was still seated in reality. It’s reminiscent of films such as The Da Vinci Code. At a certain point in my playthrough, supernatural forces are revealed to be at work (or perhaps the character making this revelation has gone mad) and this nearly lost me. I’m still suspending my disbelief, but I think the political intrigue and mystery elements were enough without introducing “demons” as a motivating factor for bad things to happen. How 18th century. Nonetheless, I’ll save my judgement for now because perhaps the person talking about demons is just crazy and we can get back to a more realistic viewpoint of the game. Here are my results through the next three chapters:
Overall I’m still enjoying this narrative adventure. Again, I’ll save my judgement until I can judge the series as a whole, but I do hope that it steers away from the lazy, supernatural answers it posed to give during episode three. Time will tell.
Me Vs. Myself and I 