Enslaved is a lot of mediocre with a touch of excellence. The excellence mostly being the art direction and actor performances. It's a very pretty apocalypse that looks pretty good even 10 years later. And I know it might be contentious, but I love Ninja Theory's willingness to use FMV. The story is not particularly novel and includes some baffling moments with an anticlimactic ending that I don't find any artistic merit in. It's strong enough to give you a small tug to wonder what will happen next, but it will not leave you with many thoughts besides like "Why?" for certain moments. The experience of playing the game is mostly swapping between alright character action combat and a variety of different kinds of segments that all boil down to the game telling you exactly what to do. There's nothing particularly wrong or outstanding about the combat on the whole besides how much the camera can wobble around while bashing enemies. The game gives you no time to try to solve any puzzles on your own. Characters are constantly telling you how exactly to get through any bit of exploratory adversity and you will rarely miss any climbing footholds because instead of designing the terrain to be readable they simply made every bit of them shine. The only things that aren't explicitly telegraphed are the collectible tech orbs, which I feel detract from the game's stronger points. Trip is yelling at me, saying we need to go before the mechs catch us and here I am, like a jerk, scrounging for non-descript science balls. I've ragged on it a lot, but it's not a terrible time.

Originally played this on PS3 years ago but didn’t finish. Got round to finally finishing it on Steam Deck (Which it runs really well on). Always thought that the environment in the game was gorgeous and to be fair to it i still does. I love the overgrown abandoned aesthetic it has going on, and graphically it still holds up well. Gameplay was fun, but as the game went on i kind of felt myself wanting it to hurry up and finish. The whole “Climb up poles and parkour your way around until a mech ambushes you” got a bit old to me, and i felt like i was chugging through. The game suffered from some pretty bad glitches too, with Trip deciding to jump as far off the map as she possibly could, resulting in me having to restart whole chapters and hope it wouldn’t happen again.
Now i don’t know if i missed some context somewhere, but the ending felt like it was completely random to me? I’ve got to have missed something because i was so confused.
Game was solid when i first played it, but finally getting to finish it, i’ve decided it was just okay.

I think 2010 was an interesting transitional era for western game design, as studios that wanted to develop more "cinematic" works still felt compelled to base their design on what worked in the PS2 era, I'm talking about games like Prince of Persia and God of War. Modern cinematic design wouldn't really find its footing until The Last of Us in 2013, and I think if Enslaved came out now, it would 100% be a behind the back style action game like those new God of War games.

This is all preface to say that Enslaved is a very pretty game, but with all of the gameplay simplified to a point of feeling like its there out of expectation, rather than to do anything interesting with it. Automated platforming, simple combat, and puzzle rooms are underscored with dynamic camera zooms and Uncharted-esque set-pieces. It feels stuck in-between two eras, which is appropriate considering it came out right in the middle of the 7th gen.

I think it's an interesting experience, but it feels "Enslaved" to what was conventional at the time. A shame really, I think if it came out a few years into the 8th gen, with the aforementioned behind the back style, it might've done better.

Mais uma daquelas pérolas da geração PS3/360 que foram esquecidas.

O jogo começa meio morno, mas me capturou pela história. Uma experiência que não se estende o suficiente para se tornar cansativa de alguma forma.

História legal, bons personagens, gameplay divertida e final surpreendente!