COmpleted first playthrough, 35 h. This is a nice mix of Fallout + Stalker + some post apo craziness the likes you see in Wasteland series. Takes all the best elements from these games. Pros: - Combat and crafting system expanded compared to ATOM: RPG - UI and AI improvements - Speech relevent again compared to some other roleplaying games. I was able to power through loads of quests and solve them peacefully without firing a bullet. - Minigames! Minor rewards for playing those, nice touch giving you something to do. - NPC's! Almost all of them are relevent. Either start a quest or give you lore, which is then translated to xp points. Lovely touch, no placeholder zombies. Cons: - End game content is kinda short and disappointing. After you reach the final zone events unfold rapidly and there are like 3 quests. - Not enough side exploration. I really love old pre war bunkers, old world tech and mysteries. Unfortunately, this aspect of the game is kinda lacking
It's a short, novel like prequel for Stasis that sets the mood of the successor game - Stasis. Pros: - Art plus voice acting - Great atmospher - Hey! Its completely free. Cons: - The Pda entries, which give you an insight in the station past and the history of this game chapter. They contain clues and pointers so they are a usefull read. It's not about the what's written in them as I understand they were intened to give you an impresion that it is the npc who wrote them, so no compaints there on scrips or punction and syntax as this was probably intended. The problem is... they also give you an insight on the NPC itself. They all seem to be horrible socio/psychopaths with weird, gross fetishes and manias. Kinda went way overboard with this, as they all seem like taken out from a C rated slasher. - The temp and humidity riddle is kinda too much and can get you frustrated. Got stuck on it for a good hour. Unneccessarily prolongs the game in a frustrating way.
I was never a fan of point and click games, since staring at one screen for 15 minutes was never my thing, Stasis changed that. The grim, brutalist architecture of the spaceship is perfect, the atmosphere of each screen just makes you want to go furhter and see what twisted crap is in the next one. The in-game riddles arent really hard, also they arent illogical in any way (remember the chicken with a pulley in the middle from Monkey Island...I do :V) and wont get you stuck or frustrated, they are a perfect ballance in order to advance the story. Oh! and what a story it is! A++ for writing, also there is a metric ton of lore about what really happend on the ship itself and why is it happening. Recommended buy even if you've never played/liked Poin and Click's! Pros: + Art/style + Atmosphere + Ambient sounds and music + Great lore and story writing. A+ space horror/thriller Cons: - Low replayability value, but I guess most point and clicks are like that, you stay for the story, this might be based on a personal preference as I also never read the same book twice.
