Whatever historic merits Another World may have, it simply doesn't hold up today. This is the least enjoyable game I have played this year, and one of the most unpleasant single-player experiences I've ever had. That's due to gameplay that combines the worst aspects of old adventure puzzlers, including an abundance of one-hit kills, with a mediocre combat system further ruined by stiff and unresponsive controls. All of this is further made more unbearable by the absence of a save function. In a single session, the game will autosave your progress. However, even this is unpredictable and random. Expect to replay the same sections over and over again. It's hard to know what's worse; replaying easy but tedious parts, or refighting combats where victory owes as much to luck as skill that you've already won. It was the latter led to me quitting the game unfinished; I'd beaten what a guide tells me was essentially the final boss, only to get killed by an unpredictable, undodgeable laser blast. Faced with playing through the last shoot out for a twentieth time, I decided I'd had enough. I got this game for a 75% discount, and I still feel like that was too expensive. Spend your money elsewhere.
