Beyond: Two Souls Analysis

Throughout Beyond: Two Souls there is an endless supply of interesting music and beautiful visuals. Music is now used in nearly every film, television show, theatrical performance and the same can be said about video games, especially in role-playing games, music is very significant. Role-playing games focus to engage the player in another world, another story. They use music and audio to display different emotions, that lead the player to react and become more emotionally involved in the story they are playing out. Beyond: Two Souls’ music has varying tones and moods, each leading to different emotions the player is coaxed into feeling. Some being eerie, mysterious and grave when the player is experiencing something emotional through the main
The audio in Beyond: Two Souls is extremely important for portraying exactly the right mood especially paired with the right visuals, is what helps the player really get into the world of gaming and get attached to the characters around them. Visuals additionally impact the game in a colossal way, while they do not have to look as fancy and realistic as Beyond: Two Souls does, they do have to fit the theme of the game for the player to get invested in the game world. Often, David Cage would create a dark, eerie mood for the more intense emotion (for example when after Jodie finds out she was instructed to murder a good person, not a rebel as she first was told), Cage would also create a happy mood, with the background tinted gold, resembling sunlight (for example when Nathan Dawkins is seemingly returned to his dead wife and child). Quantic Dream has created Beyond: Two Souls to look ultra-realistic, dark and mysterious at times for their visuals. In relation to the visuals, the acting in Beyond: Two Souls was outstanding. Ellen Page played the main role of Jodie, who did an amazing job that helped shape this game. Another exceptional performance was from Willem Defoe who played Nathan Dawkins (Jodie’s carer, especially when she was a child-teenager) The speculation to why the acting was important to the game, was because the player felt like Jodie and Nathan were real characters. By virtue of this, the player felt more connected the characters, in doing so cared more about the outcome of characters and the choices they made became much more