I got pretty excited when it came time to check out this game because it is a story of memories from World War 1 and there was another game that I have played that seemed similar at face value and it was a pretty excellent, compelling, and well-written story. The good game I am referring to was called *Valient Hearts: The Great War* and it was an amazing mostly side-scrolling story that kept you interested the entire time by their retelling of true stories that were extremely touching and tragic. 11-11 on the other hand, is a piece of crap with useless puzzles that are just irritating, not fun.
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I have no idea if the stories being told in 11-11 are true, but I think they are and that was kind of the point of this game being made at all. The gameplay, if you can even call it that, consists of walking around in a *Resident Evil* type of way but instead of investigating and looking for items, you are simply walking in a very linear path that at times seems to be excessively long just for the sake of being long. There is no good reason for the game to force me to climb a bunch of ladders and move some boxes just to arrive at a conversation with someone this is up there for some reason.
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I appreciated the graphical style because everything looks like a painting in that it is quite blurred. This is something I have never encountered in a game before and I dig it. Unfortunately the rest of the game is just a very long process to make anything happen. They try to get you engaged in your surrounding by having you need to take photos (with one of the English characters) but they overuse this almost immediately. By the time you achieve your couple of "take pictures" quests, you are dead sick of taking pictures in the game altogether.
Another sequence has you steering a transport boat through a minefield and while it seems interesting at first, it is extremely easy and quickly becomes just stupid. Unfortunately for the hour that i spent obligated to not quit playing, all of the interactions and objectives become exceptionally tedious and when they start to send you on fetch quests such as to VERY SLOWLY walk upstairs to obtain a bottle of wine and then immediately turn around and VERY SLOWLY bring it back down to where you started from, that was right about the time that I started asking myself "is this really all this game is going to do?"
It does seem that this is the case though and when my one hour was up, I exited the game as soon as I could
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The concept behind the game is actually pretty sound. You take control of one English soldier and one German soldier and I would imagine at some point in time they end up meeting or even fighting in the trenches. I wouldn't know because the entire hour I played was spent running back and forth on trains and in warehouses, or taking photographs of stupid-ass birds or sunsets.
I really wanted to like this game because I do enjoy games that are emotional retellings of horrible events such as WW1.
There are some solid reviews out there for this game but I can't help but think that this is done because it would be considered insensitive or even forbidden to be critical of such a tragic story. Well I am not held but such regulations and can tell you that there is a very good chance that you are going to be bored to tears especially in the first hour. Maybe it gets wonderful later but I am a big believer that games these days with our reduced attention spans need to strive to grab our attention right from the start and not build up to the game becoming fun later. It is not fun nor interesting in the first hour of play and the only thing I really have to say in the game's favor is that the graphical art style is pretty damn cool
<h3> You would have to pay me to get me to play more than the required 1-hour that I did play. Not recommended </h3>
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<h3> Games I have already tried in my journey to play at least 1-hour of every PS-Plus Extra game </h3>
* **Gravity Rush 2** (action adventure game with fast movement in every direction. It has RPG elements and a pretty decent story. Make it past the first hour and the game really opens up. Recommended)
* **Oddworld: Soulstorm** (2D+ platformer with great graphics, sound, and voice-acting. Unfortunately it is plagued with a lot of repetition. Recommended for a few hours)
* **Bee Simulator** (sort of like a flying FPS game but with no combat. It's graphically impressive and filled with tidbits of knowledge about bees... unfortunately it is repetitive as hell and gets boring fast. Not recommended)
* **Prison Architect** (a prison management simulator game similar to SimCity. It's a great game but just like most simulation games, it just isn't very playable using a controller. Not recommended on PS4)
* **Hotline Miami 2** (a top-down shooter with gruesome violence and terrible AI. Would be great for speedrunners and hardcore gamers. Casuals like me are going to quickly tire with it)
* **Battle Chasers: Nightwar** (turn based RPG of medium-length that does a good job of teaching you how to play in the first hour. It's pretty old-school and I happen to like that... recommended)
* **Chorus** (3rd person open-world space fighting game. It's graphically impressive but combat is too repetitive to really hold your interest for the entire story. Still recommended though.)
* **Portal Knights** (a very well made survival action builder game similar to Minecraft. I really enjoyed this and look forward to playing it more. Recommended)
* **Saints Row: The Third** (clever and funny FPS game that intentionally puts you in impossible and absurd situations. It's innovative and humorous but ultimately quite dated and got repetitive and boring pretty quick. Not recommended)
* **Balan Wonderworld** (A rather beautiful 3D(ish) platformer that is extremely easy but still engaging enough to hold your attention for a few hours. Recommended for casual gamers)
* **The Artful Escape** (an adventure game of sorts with awesome visuals and music, but repetitive areas and controls combined with IMO far too much dialogue makes this game get boring, fast... Worth a look but not recommended to play)
* **Until Dawn** (interactive horror game that you don't really control a great deal of. It's reasonably entertaining, you can't lose, and the graphics and sound a pretty great. It's not really a game but I enjoyed it and played it to its finish. Recommended)
* **11-11: Memories Retold** (a WW1 story that doesn't actually involve much input on the player's part. The game is very boring despite having a wonderful graphical style: Not recommended)
[All other games I have already reviewed (there are a lot of them)](https://peakd.com/gaming/@whoisjohn/the-list-of-games-played-in-ps-plus-extra-part-1)
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