Positive Points : Great female protagonist design, some genuinely interesting character art direction, very solid soundtrack, gameplay that can feel sharp and energetic at times, and fast loading times. Negative Points : Annoying downtime sequences between combat encounters – check Annoying talkative radio companion used for exposition – check Annoying arena-based combat encounters instead of seamless and integrated encounter design – check Annoying rock-paper-scissors weapon cycling mechanic instead of genuine player agency shaped by encounter composition and enemy archetypes (each weapon is useful, but only through this artificial gameplay loop, not through level or enemy design) – check Annoying skill-tree-based progression system – check Annoying full-screen hit feedback (vignettes, and excessive post-processing) – check Annoying makeup-level reliance on Unreal Engine lighting and surface effects (global illumination, post-processing, reflections, high-quality lighting): remove the makeup, and the environments collapse into flat geometry – check The Worst : Annoying autosave-only system, preventing manual saves; if the game crashes or the system shuts down, hours of gameplay can be lost – check Apparently, weapon unlocks and skill progression are not stored within a single save file. When the game loses track of your save after a crash, you can restore your mission progress via a backup, but you’ll lose both weapon unlocks and skill upgrades. Some progress remains intact, such as Apex Cores. Thirty years of PC gaming, of technology and computing, and in 2025, with this game, it seems a foreign concept to simply press pause, to manually save a game, to have save files containing the entire character progression, and multiple autosaves that don’t overwrite each other.
