You get to know real people, people you care for. In 15 min you are more invested than in any Marvel movie, and many modern superficially glossy blockbusters. Have you played the game seemingly ordinary conversations, details, are ominous. The direction is pitch perfect, you don't notice it, the story grabs you. This may well be the best adaptation of a game ever made. Future episodes will tell. We experience the fall of civilisation from the ground, from the perspective of one having less information the most. We don't know more than the protagonist, a first person perspective effectively told.