Art-wise, the game looks spectacular. Unfortunately just about everything else is a slog. The entire game is just walking from linear environment to environment looking for the white-outlined thing to interact with to do a puzzle. The puzzles are rarely all that interesting beyond trying to figure out what the alien thing you're interacting with is. If the game were just that, it would be okay I guess, but it also has maybe the worst combat I've experienced in recent memory. I've heard it described as "survival horror"-esque, but I personally just found it really tedious. Lots of running backwards and ducking from behind corners to pop off one shot while waiting for another to reload hoping you don't get hit by seemingly-homing projectiles. The worst part of all is the checkpoints are garbage and if you die in combat, congratulations, you get to do a bunch of puzzles you already know how to solve and a bunch of fights you already hated, again!

Reviewed on Dec 13, 2022


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