Had a good time with this one.

The rare single player story game where I wasn't completely sick of it by the conclusion. It's still probably twice as long as it needs to be but that's pretty good considering other modern video games.

The story itself is interesting. I would have enjoyed it if the world had even more cohesion. The game has some goofy horror-trope stuff that just seems to be there to scream that it's a "horror game" like all the blood on the walls, etc.

Gameplay-wise, shooting up the necromorphs was entertaining and the scarcity economy was consistent the whole game. There were only brief spells where I felt "loaded up" and then would quickly be rocking at half health with just a little bit of ammo.

The game play loop did get a little annoying and predictable, i.e. I knew as soon as I hit a switch I could expect to have to kill like 4 jerks before I could continue the story. Killing the jerks was mostly enjoyable but things did get a bit predictable and stale.

Overall I thought this was a great game. I'd never played the original but found the experience of wandering this derelict ship and killing space zombies to be a lot of fun. I'm not super-interested in replaying this one but I'd definitely be down for a remake of the sequel or another new entry.