Review: Disaster Report 4 (Sony PlayStation 4)

Review by Matt S. 

You can learn a lot about a culture based on the response that it has to a natural disaster. How people respond - both individually and as a community - to the abject terror of Earth itself turning against them gives you an insight into their cultural morality, sense of community, and spirituality. Japan suffers from more natural disasters than almost anywhere else in the world, and the Japanese culture, over the millennia, has developed a perspective on disaster and the human response that it is rightfully proud of. Disaster Report 4 is, in theory, a game about surviving a natural disaster. In practice what it actually is in a rich, evocative look at something intensely core to the Japanese mindset and culture.

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