Review Fix Exclusive: Enrique Cabeza Talks Season Two of ‘The Last Door’

Review Fix chats with Enrique Cabeza, Creative Director for The Game Kitchen, who discusses the second season of “The Last Door.” Breaking down the development process and the gameplay changes for the first episode, “The Playwright,” Cabeza is confident the indie point and click adventure will be a hit with fans.

Review Fix: What was the reception like for Episode One?

Enrique Cabeza: Amazingly well! We’re very happy to say that the first season was highly anticipated since the Kickstarter campaign.

Review Fix: What was the biggest criticism you faced? How did you address it?

Cabeza: The biggest criticism usually is the gameplay length. We make the length we can afford to as a small studio with very scarce resources. And we always choose to make the best content we can offer at the expense of the gameplay length. Sometimes games are long but a lot of their content has little of interest, so we prefer to do the opposite.

Review Fix: What else did you learn from Season One?

Cabeza: For Season Two, we developed with a completely new engine, which means we needed to learn a lot of new technical stuff, and a totally new pipeline for developers, artists and designers. But we achieved more efficiency in the development process in so many ways.

Review Fix: How is Season Two different?

Cabeza: The episodes of the Season Two are longer than Season One, with more areas to explore, new mechanics, more beautifully crafted, with a lot of interesting situations for the characters. And the most important thing is that there will be major story revelations.

Review Fix: What are your goals for this episode?

Cabeza: As developers we want to put the players in a whole new narrative situation, where a lot of information will be revealed and the game universe will be expanded more than ever. And of course, the  biggest revelations are in this new second season.

Review Fix: Bottom line, why should someone play it?

Cabeza: The second season is vital in the story of The Last Door. A lot is going on, and players take control of new main character who has to solve a several mysteries from his point of view. The episode are longer than ever, it has better sound, wide-screen support, and much better graphics and effects. And of course, players will again feel the genuine atmosphere of the game. And you cannot miss the new soundtrack by Carlos Viola! It’s amazing!

Review Fix: What’s next?

Cabeza: We’re excited to reveal the series’ ending, where mysteries and questions will be answered. We cannot wait to see the fans reactions. As for The Game Kitchen, it’s still too early to know what is going to be our next project. We’re totally focused on finishing The Last Door right now.

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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