I WOULD have actually finished this game if there wasn't a fucking softlock in the endgame portion that has more or less made it impossible to finish. So that's a real nice final slap in the face this game did to me.
Scorn feels like a game where the developers spent a meticulous amount of time crafting the visuals, environments, art direction, etc... and then they remembered at the last minute that they actually had to put gameplay in it. No sugarcoating it, it's kind of ass.
Going into Scorn, I didn't expect it to have shooter elements to the gameplay. I was totally into it once I found out but, well, it's kind of fucking awful in execution. The first weapon you're given in this game might be one of the worst first weapons I've ever seen in an FPS. So, needless to say, I was already having a bad feeling about what the rest of the combat would be like.
Scorn's combat is probably the worst fps combat I've experienced all year. It's embarrassing. Honestly, if the game had just ditched any combat entirely I'd probably have enjoyed it a little bit more. It feels like a situation where the developers didn't feel confident in everything else to sell the game or leave enough of an impression, so they slapped on guns and combat at the last minute. Beyond just how terrible it feels, there's not even a very nice feeling variety of enemies. they're all shit. Especially that insanely poor attempt at a boss fight near the end. Did the developers really think that this combat was gonna be a hit?
The puzzle side of the gameplay is... fine? It has its moments of combining puzzles with environmental storytelling and stuff to make it feel natural and like you're interacting with this strange world you're in, but most of it just feels like the most generic, plain puzzle minigames that you've probably seen a hundred times over. It just has enough cool visuals to almost trick you into thinking it's intuitive.
Everybody got hyped for Scorn when we saw that first trailer because it was pretty much the closest thing to a video game made by H.R. Giger. Myself included. The visuals, alone, had this as one of the games I was most interested in this year. Unfortunately, the visuals are the ONLY thing this game has going for it, and all the other stuff layered on top of it is bad at worst, and mediocre at best.
I wouldn't bother touching this game unless you already have Game Pass or see it on sale one day.
Scorn feels like a game where the developers spent a meticulous amount of time crafting the visuals, environments, art direction, etc... and then they remembered at the last minute that they actually had to put gameplay in it. No sugarcoating it, it's kind of ass.
Going into Scorn, I didn't expect it to have shooter elements to the gameplay. I was totally into it once I found out but, well, it's kind of fucking awful in execution. The first weapon you're given in this game might be one of the worst first weapons I've ever seen in an FPS. So, needless to say, I was already having a bad feeling about what the rest of the combat would be like.
Scorn's combat is probably the worst fps combat I've experienced all year. It's embarrassing. Honestly, if the game had just ditched any combat entirely I'd probably have enjoyed it a little bit more. It feels like a situation where the developers didn't feel confident in everything else to sell the game or leave enough of an impression, so they slapped on guns and combat at the last minute. Beyond just how terrible it feels, there's not even a very nice feeling variety of enemies. they're all shit. Especially that insanely poor attempt at a boss fight near the end. Did the developers really think that this combat was gonna be a hit?
The puzzle side of the gameplay is... fine? It has its moments of combining puzzles with environmental storytelling and stuff to make it feel natural and like you're interacting with this strange world you're in, but most of it just feels like the most generic, plain puzzle minigames that you've probably seen a hundred times over. It just has enough cool visuals to almost trick you into thinking it's intuitive.
Everybody got hyped for Scorn when we saw that first trailer because it was pretty much the closest thing to a video game made by H.R. Giger. Myself included. The visuals, alone, had this as one of the games I was most interested in this year. Unfortunately, the visuals are the ONLY thing this game has going for it, and all the other stuff layered on top of it is bad at worst, and mediocre at best.
I wouldn't bother touching this game unless you already have Game Pass or see it on sale one day.