I am three episodes in so far. Gotta say, I'm not really digging it. I love Isolation (and with it, of course, its cutscenes), but I was hoping that the "connective tissue" that they were going to animate to really tell the story in this format was going to be something a little more than just machinima with the in-game assets. I guess I was expecting it to match the level of polish of the original cutscenes themselves, what with the same animation team working on them. The lip-sync is essentially nonexistent and there isn't really anything cinematic about just pointing the in-game camera at figures standing upright and talking back and forth to one another, and the narration bridging the scenes is pretty clunky if I'm being honest.
Had they had more time and money to do this project properly, I would have been incredibly interested in seeing Isolation recreated from scratch as an animated film or miniseries or whatever with a consistent computer generated animation style. I guess in my gut that is kind of what I was hoping that this would be. The stuff with Amanda floating through space is probably the best of the "new" elements so far. At least the cinematography in those pieces are a bit more interesting than what they did for the in-game segments.
I really wanted to love this, and don't get me wrong, I do absolutely appreciate the effort that went into making it. But some of it is just... rough, unfortunately.
