I went in with some nostalgia, the original having scared me back in the day. Dead Space has a lot of my interests compiled into one: cosmic horror, body horror, survival horror, you get the gist. It was a faithful remake, the most notable elements of story and level design mostly left unchanged yet some quality of life tweaks improved the experience. Isaac having a voice was also a good decision.

The combat was as meaty as ever and still relatively unique to this day with its dismemberment, especially the layers of flesh and bone that could be visibly stripped away. Another interesting aspect was the Intensity Director that sought to balance out the scares so that there was a steady level of downtime mixed with the enemy encounters. All in all, excellent and something I played a lot of.