Gave up using GOG windows version. Game crashes everytime you exit the game, needing to ALT CTL DEL to close it. Buggy mess.(Win 11)
Pros: -Voice Acting. I think many other crpgs could take a leaf out of wasteland 3’s book. An investment in high quality voice acting does so much for the immersion, character charm, and the tone of a game. For instance the visuals are nothing special, but once I settled into the game I still felt immersed thanks to the great voice acting. -Dark Humour. The game balances its dire apocalyptic setting with a healthy dose of dark humour that had me chuckling to myself more than any other game in recent memory. -Quest chocies.The quest choices aren’t your generic rpg good or bad, but often have you trying to find the lesser evil based on your own values (or the greater evil for those psychopaths that love playing the bad guy). -Addictive Xcom style combat. Completed on hard but found it a little easy. If familar with xcom, play on the hardest. -Punchy combat audio and some great music sprinkled throughout Cons: -Bugs. For a completely patched game I was surprised to run into some bugs. No game breaking ones, but they did hurt immersion and were annoying. The worst bug occurred during nearly every play session, after about an hour of gaming the fps would tank. A restart of the game fixed this bug. Other bugs weren’t as frequent, or annoying. For example: Once I got locked into combat mode after defeating all enemies, I had frozen characters that would not move, the screen would sometimes just randomly scroll to the side of the map, and sometimes certain parts of audio were missing. I’m not sure if these bugs are limited to the GOG version of the game. -Game mechanics are not that well thought out. Flamethrower builds are weak and have issues with too much friendly fire (especially with the uncontrollable companions). Some special weapons and armour are walled behind very specific character build requirements (weird science I’m looking at you). -So so visuals (some nice particle effects during combat though). All up a very enjoyable CRPG. Highly recommended.
Wow. I just finished Senua's sacrifice, and can safely say it's one of the most unique, immersive gaming experiences I've ever had. What first drew me to the title was recommendations online about the quality of the graphics. They weren't wrong. Beautiful and haunting environments, and amazing animation and detail of the main character. Some of the credit must also go to the actress who performed the motion capture. The story sucked me in, and I found myself driven to forge ahead on Senua's behalf. Amazing work done to capture what the "voices inside your head" might sound like. I found myself so absorbed in the game, during one of the last battles, the combination of beautiful graphics, the thumping music, and the overwhelming strong will to prevail for senua.. I snapped out of the immersion for a split second and literally said to myself "This is one of the best games I've ever played". Watching the making of video after playing made me realise the real respect paid to the source material, and thought that Ninja theory put into this project. Well done.
