Posted on: January 14, 2024
decorus_veritas
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 143 Rezensionen: 64
Staggeringly beautiful, too cinematic
There is so much in Requiem to love. The original game was a masterpiece, and Requiem largely reproduces the basic gameplay mechanics of Innocence but with fun new upgrades and twists. At its best, the stealth sequences, puzzles, and battle mechanics are both challenging and satisfying. Given that this is included in a world of unbelievable beauty, detail, and horror, Requiem is a truly marvelous experience. And yet it really does fall short of the original in some significant ways. The most concerning to those thinking about buying the game is that the developers went overboard with the cinematic "feel" of the game. Too many cutscenes and walking sim sequences bog the game down in what is basically just eye candy with a few taps of the E button. Some of these go on for a very long time that really pulls the player out of the action. Like I said, when it's good it's good, but there can be real spells between them, and the final three chapters are largely just walking sim sequences. Sadly, Requiem does not maintain the clever and cohesive plot and storytelling that made the original so brilliant. This game felt like a splatter of disconnected ideas, and there was no rational reason for the characters to move from one sequence to the next. Again, the visual set pieces were stunning, but they had no real reason to exist other than the developers wanted them too. The story is chaotic - for instance, a long sequence has the protagonists descending into the bowels of the earth where nothing good awaits, only to discover that nothing good awaits and then have to escape. This, plus a lot of really banal dialogue, makes this game far inferior to Innocence. It gets four stars because there truly is so much here to love. I just wish they had gone for something a little less bloated and a little more tightly structured. At it's finest moments, it's one of my favorite games. But at 27 hours, there was too much bloat time filling up my total hours. Hope the next one is better.
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