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What Made L.A. Noire So Great

I gazed into the future, saw L.A. Noire’s Switch release and other remasters coming and did an entire playthrough of the game on Kotaku’s Twitch channel. Here’s a collection of writings inspired by that playthrough.

First, I looked at the early missions and noted how the game, while offering an intriguing and gorgeous world, has some difficulty in the opening missions:

https://lastchance.cc/revisiting-the-opening-cases-of-l-a-noire-1797399591%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

After that, I moved to Homicide Desk and discovered some of the game’s most exciting moments as well as a gritty, well-realized police procedural:

https://lastchance.cc/l-a-noires-homicide-investigations-were-some-of-the-be-1798351067%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

Last, I took a look at the game’s controversial ending and concluded that there was no other way for a tale of vice and corruption to end. Years later, L.A. Noire’s finale have some of the most bitter yet thematically strong moments in a narrative game:

https://lastchance.cc/l-a-noires-ending-revisited-1818553078%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E

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