Posted on: March 23, 2024
OldOldGamer
Verified ownerGames: 1752 Reviews: 83
Good atmosphere. Clunky game.
I have played a few hours and, I have to admit, the atmosphere is quite thick and oppressing. The city is massive. Choke full of locations to explore. Strange characters. Cycle day/night and objects to find. Voice acting is really good and graphic is overly nice and fit the theme. What I struggle to embrace is the overall gameplay. The whole world, while atmospheric, seems way too alien as well. People that look like fishes or apes. Massive coral formations grown everywhere. The whole city is filled with giant sharks and squids left rotting on the ground. Monsters teleports on your back. Your character movement is sloooow. Climbing is clunky. The Mindspace mini game, where you associate cases clues, I still do not understand how works and feels ... Weird. The supernatural view is meh... Perhaps not needed. Collecting evidence and identify specific clues on them, to progress cases, is ok. But a couple of times I think was not obvious how to progress. I.e. what actions take with the item. Some door do not open until you find all clues. Sometimes 2 meters from the door that, magically, now can be opened because you watched some supernatural cutscene. Moving by boat in the city is nice but boring, after a while.
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