Game #1068: inFamous - First Light

  I finally get to play as one of my favorite singers of all time, Pink!

 Considering how much I like the inFamous franchise it was about time I took inFamous: First Light for a whirl. Originally released as a stand-alone companion mini campaign for Second Son, it got its own physical release so I was able to give it a try, and unlike Festival of Blood, I get to keep it.

 Basically, it's just like Second Son but you play as Fetch, the girl with the Neon Powers. Her moveset is quite different from Delsin's, which mae her enjoyable to play as. The story campaign is very brief, but you do get a small sandbox to play in, and it has a few side missions, such as collecting Lumens, races and graffiti tags. It's nothing super involved, but it's decent padding.

 What makes fetch different is how she plays. Her neon form allows her to dash all over town very quickly, which made it pretty fun, and her powers are more deliberate than Delsin's. While aiming you can slow down time and highlight an enemy's weakpoints, hit them and they die instantly. If you get the right level ups, you'll refill your slowodown gauge when taking down enemies like this, which makes her combat a bit more slow-paced... but fun in its own right.

 While Fetch's backstory isn't particularly bland, it seems that the focus of this companion piece was to add more replayability in the form of Challenge Arenas you can play in. If you have a Second Son save file you can even play as Delsin, good or bad, instead of Fetch, and you even get to play around with his Stone powers. Can't say I was too interested in this side content to be honest.

 As a small piece of inFamous... it's fun. It can't be as fun as the main games as it's a much shorter and shallow affair, but I appreciated getting to play as another Conduit with her own powers, as well as getting new ways of moving around with super powers, somewhere where I think the inFamous games excel at. So, yeah, I wouldn't recommend it over a main game, but anyone who likes inFamous should give it a try. 

 7.0