One of the few games I've actually gone and Platinum'd cause it wasn't that hard to lmfao.
Yeah I spent plenty of time with this one and had a blast. Game's got some weird jank on the technical department at points, but it looks great. The new color grading of everything lends the game to look even more like all the Alien movies. You've got the darkness of Alien, Aliens deep Cameron blues and even Resurrections shit brown in any location with the flesh hives. It rules.
Biggest glow up in this is definitely how it feels to play compared to the original. Isaac and the framerate were fucking molasses in that game so when more than two Necromorphs were onscreen my god almighty. This one retains that 60fps in Performance Mode (how I always play games when given the option) which is such a welcome change. It also makes Impossible Mode actually a fun challenge this time around as opposed to the slog it felt like at points in the original. Saving and entering a room then clearing it and saving again if it has multiple waves the ideal strategy. If I wasn't so pussy I'd play that mode all the time.
Sound design still owns although I did notice that the sound mixing is a bit worse this time around? It feels like music and SFX get so loud at points it drowns out anything the characters are saying and it sucks cause the VA work is really good. Especially Isaac seeing as he was just making grunts and screams in the original. He gets to be an actual character this time. Honestly Isaac is like if James Sunderland wasn't so fucking pathetic. He's the PSM cover art James Sunderland in attitude.
Pretty damn good remake. Don't think it's as good as the RE ones (well it's better than RE3s remake lets not kid ourselves now...), but I do appreciate this one in a similar way to 4s remake expanding on the original and adding in new shit that's genuinely cool. Hope we get a Dead Space 2 remake. That'll be the one I'll really be looking at like a hawk to see if they fuck anything.
Yeah I spent plenty of time with this one and had a blast. Game's got some weird jank on the technical department at points, but it looks great. The new color grading of everything lends the game to look even more like all the Alien movies. You've got the darkness of Alien, Aliens deep Cameron blues and even Resurrections shit brown in any location with the flesh hives. It rules.
Biggest glow up in this is definitely how it feels to play compared to the original. Isaac and the framerate were fucking molasses in that game so when more than two Necromorphs were onscreen my god almighty. This one retains that 60fps in Performance Mode (how I always play games when given the option) which is such a welcome change. It also makes Impossible Mode actually a fun challenge this time around as opposed to the slog it felt like at points in the original. Saving and entering a room then clearing it and saving again if it has multiple waves the ideal strategy. If I wasn't so pussy I'd play that mode all the time.
Sound design still owns although I did notice that the sound mixing is a bit worse this time around? It feels like music and SFX get so loud at points it drowns out anything the characters are saying and it sucks cause the VA work is really good. Especially Isaac seeing as he was just making grunts and screams in the original. He gets to be an actual character this time. Honestly Isaac is like if James Sunderland wasn't so fucking pathetic. He's the PSM cover art James Sunderland in attitude.
Pretty damn good remake. Don't think it's as good as the RE ones (well it's better than RE3s remake lets not kid ourselves now...), but I do appreciate this one in a similar way to 4s remake expanding on the original and adding in new shit that's genuinely cool. Hope we get a Dead Space 2 remake. That'll be the one I'll really be looking at like a hawk to see if they fuck anything.