Edited on: September 30, 2025
Posted on: September 24, 2025
Munkee79
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Wears rapidly thin.
As the game opens and you have your initial few encounters with The Monster, the atmosphere in this is fantastic. And for as long as The Monster exists primarily as an indeterminate threat to police and punish your general noise pollution, it's a perfectly decent threat factor with which to throttle your forward progress and set an oppressive mood. The issue is that the further you get into the game, the more readily it begins to spawn in for no particular rhyme or reason, at which point your options are basically to hide somewhere and cross your fingers that you don't run afoul of the dice roll that determines if The Monster idly decides to just completely destroy your hiding place or not. A physical encounter with it will seemingly 4 out of 5 times lock you into an instadeath animation, while there's the odd instance where you might be able to get away with just one bad laceration if you're nimble enough. There are wonderfully tense encounters with this thing... spaced out amidst another half-dozen encounters where I just die instantly or twiddle my thumbs in the corner for 5 minutes waiting for it to despawn because it's untenable to waste the resources that are required to manually drive it off, and attempting to accomplish anything while it's present is tantamount to suicide with how abruptly it can relocate itself from point A to point B. It's the classic problem of overexposure. The threat of death and lost progress is scary. Actually dying and losing progress over and over, or alternatively cowering in the dark motionless for several minutes at a time, is not. I spend more time doing either of those than actually making forward progress. I get why it's happening; the map is remarkably small and the game would probably be over inside of an hour or two if The Monster didn't make such a constant insufferable nuisance of itself. The best part of the game is ironically right before the endgame where you're suddenly able to briefly visit a new setpiece free of your usual antagonist's omnipresent bother. It's still a fairly novel gameplay loop. It was an interesting experiment. I just don't think it worked very well.
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