This game's story is so good! if you looked at my "Silent Hill: The Short Message" thoughts, you'd remember me talking about how I can excuse uninteresting gameplay if the story is good enough. This game is the perfect example. The gameplay is not bad or boring or anything but it is definitely not anything special, it's just another "small puzzle, run and hide, small puzzle, find next area, etc." type game.
But what makes up for that unremarkable gameplay is the absolutely remarkable story and its themes. This is the perfect use of the sci-fi setting it takes place in, talking about themes of the morality of mortality, what it means to be alive, and how people live on. This game has plenty of disturbing moments that really stretch its main concept of copies of people turned into digital consciousness and what they leave behind, leading to some crazy and morally questionable moments that tie perfectly into the game.
This game also builds up a really good atmosphere, really feeding into the idea of lost humanity with this dark, decrepit, and scary deep ocean. It really builds the vibes of the game on the outside segments about just how fucked you really are if you don't succeed. and the indoor segments also build a great atmosphere of infected and left behind place that should be full of people and working machines, but are instead filled with broken people and broken machines.
Overall, Fantastic game that if you are a fan of horror or future and sci-fi like me, you are doing yourself a disservice by not trying. (9.5/10)
But what makes up for that unremarkable gameplay is the absolutely remarkable story and its themes. This is the perfect use of the sci-fi setting it takes place in, talking about themes of the morality of mortality, what it means to be alive, and how people live on. This game has plenty of disturbing moments that really stretch its main concept of copies of people turned into digital consciousness and what they leave behind, leading to some crazy and morally questionable moments that tie perfectly into the game.
This game also builds up a really good atmosphere, really feeding into the idea of lost humanity with this dark, decrepit, and scary deep ocean. It really builds the vibes of the game on the outside segments about just how fucked you really are if you don't succeed. and the indoor segments also build a great atmosphere of infected and left behind place that should be full of people and working machines, but are instead filled with broken people and broken machines.
Overall, Fantastic game that if you are a fan of horror or future and sci-fi like me, you are doing yourself a disservice by not trying. (9.5/10)