Posted on: April 28, 2023
Mechthorian
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Unbelievably boring, plot full of holes.
2 stars because you can still see the ghost of a good game in here. The combat system, at least at first, has a definite rhythm to it. Early encounters are intense and fulfilling, and the plot is engaging until you reach the second chapter and the twist becomes too obvious to ignore. The rest of the game, however, is a Sisyphean slog unlike anything else I've ever seen. Every two hour long level has the exact same environment, the exact same enemies, the exact same weapons, and the exact same collectibles. The developers looked at the very first encounter in the game, decided they didn't need to do anything to keep it interesting, and just remade it over and over again for the game's entire 15+ hour run. Any breaks from the unbelievably monotonous combat last at most 15 minutes. At the start of every chapter, you get a short story beat, then get thrust right back into combat with all of your previous weapons and items removed. Puzzles are so simple that a child could figure them out, and don't even serve to break up the monotony since you need to face a horde of enemies while you solve them. The storyline is an interesting attempt at a metanarrative. But once you realize this, it has nothing more to offer in terms of surprise or satisfaction. You can guess the twist in the first two chapters; or the third, if you're particularly dense. The foreshadowing is laid on thicker than the la brea tar pits, and it stops making any semblance of sense the moment you think about the implications of what's going on. Without spoiling too much, a certain character had all the opportunity and motive to stop the bad stuff from happening, but let it happen anyway for no good reason. The entire plot hinges on this, and the game just tries to handwave it and hope you won't think about it. There are plenty of good games with bad stories, but when a game tries to dangle a bad story in front of your face as justification for bad gameplay, it just feels insulting.
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