System Shock

Six years late and what do we get? Graphics that are jarringly good and absolutely godawful at the same time. Puzzles that are actually WORSE than in the original. Floaty movement and lousy combat feedback. I can't believe NDS messed this up so badly. It's a miserable experience - and that's coming from someone who struggled through the keyboard limitations of the original. I can't even express what a tragedy this game turned out to be.

In my own experience the audio is super choppy and noise-riddled. Audio is an integral part of the story & experience for this game. So until this is fixed I have wasted my money. I was very excited, as my introduction to the series was System Shock 2 (SS2) and I'd bought but never quite played SS1 in older forms. (This is the ONLY game or application having this problem despite updated drivers)

I really wanted to like this more, but I feel that my expectations were too high. While it is true that the game mechanics are user-friendlier and graphics are a nice mix of retro pixels, bright neon colors and modern design, the gameplay itself just feels too boring and not engaging enough. Every battle seems too easy and too short and the spooky atmosphere of the original game is gone. The illuminated corridors and enemies don't seem that frightening and threatening anymore. Lack of music also bothers me too as I really liked the original score. Now it's just your average ambient noises in the background and occasional generic battle music that is not exactly memorable. And while I praised the graphics, the bright colours will strain your eyes quite quickly.

The combat Is really clunky, the enemy can be realing back after a blow but still attack you? you've got to be WELL within thier mele range to swing a big lead pipe. you have to go through an animation for EVERY log you pick up. The jump is pittiful, they added some pretty damning fall damage. Most of that I can look past they're first impressions but....WHY IN GODS NAME CAN I NOT BIND MOUSE BUTTONS PAST LEFT, RIGHT, AND MIDDLE CLICK?! IT'S 2023! Also why, why does it sound like I'm playing the dead rising main menu??

Has an option to disable motion blur, but no option to disable depth of field, chromatic aberration, or bloom. All locked to a option in post processing that you cant completely turn off. As someone who gets headaches from looking at objects that are out of focus, this is a non starter for me.