It’s something that’s difficult for every interactive media - more choices make for more paths which makes for a lot more writing. “Fallen Hero” manages what a lot of choose-your-own-adventure games can’t: It never once makes your choices feel irrelevant and constricted. Though it’s called an interactive novel, the fact that your character’s stats are recorded and that these affect the outcome of the choices you make makes it more akin to a text-based, choose-your-own-adventure game. My favorite thing about Sidestep is that they are far from a rockstar - they’re a paranoid, compulsive liar, they’re pathetic and they’re utterly incapable of emotional closeness with anyone around them without suffering a panic attack. Now, years later, Sidestep returns as a villain, and has to deal with balancing old friends, older enemies and their new role working against the Rangers, rather than with them. The game follows Sidestep, a telepath who used to work with a Los Angeles’ superhero team, the Rangers, until a traumatic incident forced them to abandon their old life. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve played the alpha demo that’s been released online, and I check the Steam page daily, hoping that the “coming soon” turns into a price tag. This one, though, occupies my every waking thought. After the number of anticipated games I’ve watched fall into development hell, I don’t usually let myself get excited for sequels. “Fallen Hero: Rebirth” is the first in a planned trilogy of interactive novels by Malin Ryden, with the sequel, “Fallen Hero: Retribution,” due to release any day now. Essentially, I hate an out and proud superhero. The necessary double life and juggling of identities, the isolation that comes with being “different” and hiding in plain sight is what makes a “hero” compelling. For me, superhumans are compelling when they’re miserable. In the era of the rockstar superhero, where superhero media is dominated by Marvel movies and images of playboys, career heroes and literal pagan gods, it’s hard to find superhero media with the themes that have always drawn me into the genre.
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