The game start out strong and it's very fun the first few hours, but the more you play the worse it gets. Story it's somewhat ok, nothing special, interesting at first but poorely executed. The main problem is the gameplay, and the bad decisions taken by the desing team: at first you are dog fighting with your enemies and it is fun!, but few ours in, and you start unlocking "powers" called rites, that mark the start of the downward spiral. The more powers you unlock the less fun you get from the game, few examples: powers now let you teleport behind enemies cutting out all the fun of manouvring to put your figher behind enemy trails, then you unlock thunder bolts that not only remove enemies shields, rendering the use of specific weaponry useless (laser guns), but also stun them! basically all dog-fighting is out of the window, and so on and on. I'm buffled by those decisions. It was good at first, but then the fun was sucked out of it by the game itself, I played 11h and was near the end, but got too bored to even finish it.
I bought SOMA long time ago because of the many reviews praising its story, I love story rich games but I coudn't even bring myself to start it; that was until recently. Here's what you need to know: I'm very suscettible and easily scared, thus I don't play horror games, but this game's story and intrigues were so good I forced myself to get past the horror parts just to experience the story to the fullest. If this cannot convince you to buy it I don't know what could do it.
No nostalgia goggles here, this was my first time with this game. I'll be concise, the story is pretty bad, basic and poorely told for today standards, meanwhile the graphics and gameplay are enjoyable. It gets compared to Diablo, but to be fair is not even close, there is a reason Diablo overshadowed this title. The loot is almost non existant, there is no rpg elements, neither skill trees or the like. It can be fun, but after the 10h mark it starts to get quite repetitive, the campain clocks in at 13h. Make your own decision.
