The Left Right Game - Podcast Rankings and reviews

The performances are all strong, but the sound quality is rough. Every character speaks at a different volume which means you’re constantly working the audio controls to tune in. You’ll have a whispery Brit that you’ll have to turn all the way up, and then you’ll blow out your eardrums as a random car crash sound effect comes on. But it does make the story scarier to know that you may go deaf at any moment, so that’s a plus.

I don’t normally write reviews for podcasts and I should say I’m generally very very picky with them, I can count on one hand the amount of podcasts I have actually finished. This podcast is one of my top favorites, I listened to the whole thing in one sitting. A lot of the reviews here say the ending is confusing and that there isn’t enough exposition and description. But to me, the mystery of the road, as another reviewer put it, is the point. You don’t get any answers, you have to just accept the logic of that reality as an observer that’s like the spoken message of the podcast. You get to imagine the creatures and the horror and that’s what makes it scarier, this is horror 101, the monster is always scarier before you see it.
I also just appreciated that the main character was not annoying and constantly in denial, she was reasonably skeptical but rational and calm in the face of everything going on around her, massively refreshing in a medium oversaturated with mc’s who are constantly freaking out and unaware of what’s going on around them.
If you liked season 1 of Alice isn’t dead, long road trips through empty landscapes, and surreal mysteries with no real answers, this is the podcast for you.

This was really well done in terms of characters and intrigue, the voice acting was great and the audio was cool as well. However the ending was incredibly underwhelming? Tom needn’t have existed at all, really. There is no explanation as to why he is the only one that remembers her, and the plot seemed to be building up to the two of them perhaps meeting, but it never happened. This was going to be four or five stars but the ending brought it down.

As someone who read the original story long before listening to this podcast, a lot of info as to what is happening at a given time is simply missing. I get that the sounds are supposed to give the listener indication to what’s going on, but if I hadn’t read the OG story first I would’ve been extremely confused as to what I was supposed to be hearing. Even I was still mildly confused at times as to what was going on. I get that with a podcasts, apposed to written story, you have to leave out a lot of the inner monologues and plot descriptions, but it’s missing key details at times that make the original story so horrifying and compelling. Seems like literally only the dialogue of the story was used for this adaption, there should be more natural narration included to give the correct amount of detail & information. Specifically let down when the scariest moments are happening, the ones you of course want the most details for, are missing key information that would tell the listener what the characters are experiencing, expecting us to fill in unknown gaps in the plot. Love the OG story and keep coming back to it, sharing it, and do love the way it was brought to life here, but again it’s missing that original narration and detail.

The main character Alice is the worst voice actor for this type of story. It sounds like she’s in a commercial trying to sell you maxi pads. You’d think Alice would have more range rather than sounding sickly sweet all the time. No one talks like that irl. This is a sci-fi drama after all not a commercial. As for the story, LAME. I get they have a fancy sound engineer but the problem they forget to address is the actual story. You can’t tell what’s happening sometimes because of the layered sound effects. Not impressed. (For an excellent audio drama w/ layered sound effects that actually work w/the story try Derelict.) I have to say that actors you see on screen aren’t always the best voice actors in podcasts and I get they want the big actor name to attract attention but it rarely works. Please stick to real voice actors not some person w/ name recognition because they were on a tv drama on the CW network.