I know many of you have been waiting for this one, and so have I. This was one of the games I felt was most deserving to be turned into a movie on my list, but I was worried about how much work it was going to be. I was right. This was my largest project yet! This video is optimized to look best if you watch it on a device that supports HDR youtube, but I put in a lot of work to make sure the SDR grade looks fantastic as well.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with my work, my goal is to take a video game's story, and edit it into a movie, designed in a way that can be understood and enjoyed whether you play games or not. A big part of that process is removing as many HUD elements as possible, to give a cleaner, more hollywood like presentation. Those HUD elements can hurt the immersion when watching as a movie, so the more of them I can remove, the better.
I'm proud to say I was able to remove almost every HUD element in the game, with a few exceptions. While there was a setting which reduced HUD distractions very slightly, for the most part, QTEs, dialogue choices, and objective indicators needed to be removed through extensive use of VFX. I ended up creating a total of 822 VFX shots. Post production took 3.5 months straight of working every single day! Under typical gameplay moments, the average time between one VFX shot and the next closest shot was 4 seconds! Based on the typical length of the effects, I estimate that VFX represented approximately 30% of the gameplay, or about 15% of the movie as a whole.
There are a few areas where you might see some leftover HUD elements. These could happen if removal simply wasn't possible, if the HUD element represented new information or a thought the character had, or in a few cases, I simply missed them, even on rewatches.
This game is obviously a choice based game, so the story you see here is simply my journey through the story. Because there are so many choices that are possible, I had to carefully study the flowcharts and walkthroughs, and play most missions multiple times to get the footage I wanted to assemble my version of the story. Even doing this, I still wasn't able to get all of my favorite moments, although I tried to craft the best story I could tell, given the limitations.
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Chapters:
0:00:00 - The Hostage
0:07:14 - Opening
0:10:52 - A New Home, Part 1
0:12:11 - Shades of Color
0:15:44 - The Painter, Part 1
0:19:02 - A New Home, Part 2
0:23:39 - The Painter, Part 2
0:30:15 - Partners
0:39:48 - Stormy Night
0:46:43 - Broken
0:50:57 - The Interrogation
0:58:55 - Fugitives, Part 1
1:01:02 - From the Dead
1:07:57 - Fugitives, Part 2
1:14:27 - Waiting For Hank, Part 1
1:16:43 - Jericho, Part 1
1:18:30 - Waiting For Hank, Part 2
1:25:07 - On the Run
1:36:25 - The Nest, Part 1
1:39:38 - Jericho, Part 2
1:43:27 - The Nest, Part 2
1:50:17 - Time to Decide
1:58:44 - Russian Roulette, Part 1
2:00:50 - Zlatko
2:17:44 - Russian Roulette, Part 2
2:22:53 - Spare Parts
2:32:22 - The Eden Club
2:43:27 - The Pirates' Cove
2:54:59 - The Bridge
2:59:29 - The Stratford Tower, Part 1
3:00:25 - Public Enemy, Part 1
3:02:34 - The Stratford Tower, Part 2
3:12:38 - Midnight Train
3:20:50 - Public Enemy, Part 2
3:26:48 - Capitol Park
3:41:58 - Meet Kamski, Part 1
3:43:59 - Freedom March, Part 1
3:48:01 - Meet Kamski, Part 2
3:54:27 - Freedom March, Part 2
4:02:00 - Last Chance, Connor
4:10:35 - Crossroads, Part 1
4:17:40 - Crossroads, Part 2
4:22:46 - Crossroads, Part 3
4:30:21 - Night of the Soul, Part 1
4:33:16 - Battle For Detroit - Intro
4:35:12 - Night of the Soul, Part 2
4:39:50 - Battle For Detroit - Kara Part 1
4:44:58 - Battle For Detroit - Connor Part 1
4:48:04 - Battle For Detroit - Markus Part 1
4:49:21 - Battle For Detroit - Connor Part 2
4:50:07 - Battle For Detroit - Kara Part 2
4:53:17 - Battle For Detroit - Markus Part 2
4:57:40 - Battle For Detroit - Connor Part 3
5:02:38 - Battle For Detroit - Kara Part 3
5:04:20 - Battle For Detroit - Markus Part 3
5:06:01 - Battle For Detroit - Ending
5:14:22 - Credits, Part 1
5:17:30 - Epilogue
5:18:07 - Credits, Part 2