Last week we talked about good games with rubbish tales. This week, it's the reverse - great stories with bad games attached to them.

John thinks Dreamfall had an moving story about faith, alongside an awful 3D adventure interface. Katharine hates looking at the wall in Soma because the underwater robo-facility is so intriguing. And Brendan is sad that Pyre had a fiddly netball game attached to its warm tale of friendship and justice.

Links:

Adam didn’t care for Soma as much as us :( https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/09/21/soma-review/

But here’s Steven on its strengths: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/06/17/have-you-played-soma/

Soma’s safe mode lets you delete monsters: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/12/01/soma-safe-mode-update-released/

Have you played… The Longest Journey? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/05/have-you-played-the-longest-journey/

A Dreamfall retrospective: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/26/eurogamer-retrospective-dreamfall/

Ragnar Tørnquist on Dreamfall and faith: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/08/20/ragnar-tornquist-on-dreamfall-faith/

Pyre review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/07/28/pyre-review/

You’re not the hero of Pyre’s revolution, and that’s the point: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/18/youre-not-the-hero-of-pyres-revolution-and-thats-the-point/

Zunless Zea Zubmariner lured Pip into the water: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2016/10/11/sunless-sea-zubmariner/

Alec’s choose-your-own-review of Torment: Tides of Numenera : https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/02/28/torment-tides-of-numenera-review/

ER: The Game is good-not-good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1n1cZ9D5cg

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/08/12/hellblade-senuas-sacrifice-review/

The Walking Dead: Season One, Episode One review: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/04/25/wot-i-think-the-walking-dead-episode-one/

Have you played… Spec Ops: The Line? https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/11/19/spec-ops-review

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