I got recommended this game at least four years ago, so I felt like it was finally time to give it a shot (no pun intended). And it was a damn fun game. The core gameplay consists mainly of shooting guys, but it's made super satisfying (and stress inducing) due to the fact that everything dies in one hit, including you, and the respawn time is very quick. The soundtrack was holy amazing, especially "Hydrogen", which made me look forward to the level every time it played. The story was the part where I felt the game fell short in my opinion. I liked it in the beginning, especially in the details. For instance, you save a girl from a level, and from that point on, she appears in different places in your apartment every day. It becomes a routine, so when she disappears, it's a shocking moment. But after a certain point, the story starts to spew the same message that so many other games already have made, the message about how "you enjoy all the killing, don't you?". That point was made as early as 1998 in Metal Gear Solid, and now it feels pretty old in my opinion. And the way the game ends felt like a huge anticlimax, which was probably the point, but it didn't make it more satisfying. So, a mixed bag on some points, but the gameplay was so satisfying that it made up for all its shortcomings. A damn good game!

Reviewed on Aug 29, 2020


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