10 Video Games You Should Turn Off Before The End
7. L.A. Noire
I've said recently that time has been unkind to LA Noire. Once heralded for its impressive advancements in realism now looking quite janky and weird by today's standards, it hasn't aged well.
What also didn't help was the massive deviation in character change for the third act of the game, shifting the tone. Instead of playing out the rise and somewhat shoehorned-in downfall of our shouty detective, Cole Phelps, we're instead put in the gumshoes of someone else.
That someone is Jack Kelso, Phelps' former "rival" in the Marine Corp during the war. After Phelps is rumbled and demoted for his out-of-place affair, the action shifts to Kelso finishing off the last cases and story part of the game.
This tonal shift also has us taking World War II-era flamethrowers to Mickey Cohen's mobsters in some sewers, before we're briefly reunited with Phelps... who abruptly dies.
It wasn't what anyone asked for, and it was a shame to see Phelps' character go out a disgraced detective, before being swept under the rug.
A Red Dead-level redemption arc, this ain't.