Metro: Last Light Redux

My 2nd attempt at a review, my first one was 3k chars too long for GoG well here goes. The game is like fallout3, If fallout3 had levels instead of open world. The game blends FPS combat and Stealth, Obviously the emphases here is on stealth as they are very stingy with the ammo in this game. The GoG time to beat times are pretty accuracy there is a lot of dialog to listen to and it probably took me 12+hours taking my time and also I sneak thru almost the entire game. The combat is frantic, dialog is generally well written. You're on a guided tour of a post nuclear war world, clearly the dev's spent a great deal of time on trying to build a compelling world and tell a story which they accomplished. There are a lot of scripted events, and not much exploring given the game uses levels kinda similar to Doom if you can picture that.. with "stations" that serve as towns for story telling, information and resupply interspersed between levels. I guess this is a good time to point out the game has nudity particularly in 1 part of the game, nothing too explicit and It felt organic and fit the setting not just added for the sake of it like some 80s' slasher movie. I applaud a studio being bold enough to not shy away from it though, the game feels gritty and it just adds to it. The texturing and models are fine, nothing too special, but the particle effects and lighting are extremely good and have aged well, The music is also dynamic and helps enhance the mood quite well. The two negative things I will say about the game is this. There is a decent variety of monsters but you typically end up fighting the same 2 or 3 over and over, also the saving system is insane using a check point auto save and no manual saving. You can later load a previous level though. Best way to put it is this is like a good book or a movie, You don't feel like you have much control, you're along for the ride but what a ride. Sadly this means replay value is pretty low.

No amount of difficulty should warrant keeping a save file and backtracking to numbers of chapters ago, just to recover ammo. And in the event that player is out of ammo, there should be a stealth alternative to get past the level.

Awesome!

At this point close to 350 hours only on this platform should tell you my opinion of this game.

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