This. This is actually goated. Truly one of the best survival horror games ive ever played and i do not know why i slept on it for so long. First things first the game is very clearly inspired by the resident evil of the time. It takes a lot of what changed in that franchise (all resources can be converted to money, dismemberment and of course the camera) yet absolutely smothers it in an orginal setting and sandwiched with its own ideas and flavour. The game is structured in a mostly linear way with the tram acting more like a start level and end level stop. So some enviroments do get re used but it is actually 0 detriment to the game. The context is that you are on a giant mining spaceship so it makes sense within the world but it also gets to ease the player into comfortable territory for the early levels until its starts to slip that out underneath you and truly goes deeper and more complicated where you alwasys dont know whats gonna happen next. Mild backtracking in the late game that is done so tastefully and hightens the horror rather than bogs down and drags. There are some rough parts here and there that are very little low points since they dont last long and there is some only rare unskippable sequences that do annoy if you die and have to watch but there is little complaint from me overall. The game has a multitude of set peices and fun enough mystery to solve throughout the story. The thing that amazes me most is how well this particular game not only well it holds up in the horror genre but by a game period. The highlight for me is how combat is done. First headshots are not it. Limbs are, you need to actively dismember the enemies to kill them which adds so much challenge and makes this stand out as you litreally have to play this by its own rrules and not what by your familar with. The enemy design absolutely compliments this as well keeping a great sort of variety in how battle partake. Also being an engineer rather than a soldier there is a lot of industrial feeling weapons bar one that is an auto rifle although safe to use is incredibly weak against the enemies weaknesses. The game fucks gow 2018 with it actually comitting to the one shot a hell of a lot harder and smarter, all menus are in realtime within the game as holograms rather than pulling you out to a completely seperate plane of existence. This adds an astronimcal amount immersion that is so impressive right now as of this review in 2023. Onto the remake next, i cant wait to see whay the rest of the series has to offer. I want to give it inbetweeen a 4/5 and a 4.5/5 we will see what future brandon decides