At the heart of is an ingenious idea that doesn’t have any real precedent in videogames – or at least it didn’t upon release in 2014, before and featured real-world actors playing multiple roles. In both of those cases, though, that was within a single game. Just about all of main cast have appeared in other titles in the series, playing key roles in those games – but, since this is set in the 19th century and the rest in the 20th or 21st, Freed from the constrictions of the mainline narrative, these established characters are effectively cosplaying as historical
