Actually dealing with most monsters in this game is painful, there's no gettiing around that. The team largely dropped the ball in terms of the enemies.
With that said... there is one level in the middle of the game that manages to be absolutely amazing. Quite possibly the best horror game level that I have ever played.
Most importantly though, and why I have to give this a full score... the game has one of the strongest, smartest narratives that I have ever experienced across all media. As such, I kind of have to acknowledge its value. It raises a lot of hard, complicated philosophical questions that you don't even necessarily notice as you play. Yet then you start to think about it a little. Then a little more. You realise that some things that you thought of as completely obvious might be really complex!
The writing puts the existential horror into the subtext and it works extremely well.
I absolutely love this game, despite its massive flaw.
With that said... there is one level in the middle of the game that manages to be absolutely amazing. Quite possibly the best horror game level that I have ever played.
Most importantly though, and why I have to give this a full score... the game has one of the strongest, smartest narratives that I have ever experienced across all media. As such, I kind of have to acknowledge its value. It raises a lot of hard, complicated philosophical questions that you don't even necessarily notice as you play. Yet then you start to think about it a little. Then a little more. You realise that some things that you thought of as completely obvious might be really complex!
The writing puts the existential horror into the subtext and it works extremely well.
I absolutely love this game, despite its massive flaw.
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@ScootBurb There is a no monsters mode, yeah!
The problem is that it also invalidates the horror level that I love so much in the middle of the game. I'd absolutely say it's a per-person judgement call to make. If the early monsters are too much of a pain to deal with, absolutely swap to safe mode instead.
Maybe I should look into uploading a save file that starts right before the level that I love so much...
The problem is that it also invalidates the horror level that I love so much in the middle of the game. I'd absolutely say it's a per-person judgement call to make. If the early monsters are too much of a pain to deal with, absolutely swap to safe mode instead.
Maybe I should look into uploading a save file that starts right before the level that I love so much...
ScootBurb
7 months ago