I'll come back and review this more thoroughly later (if I don't forget), but so far I'm hovering around 3/5 stars because it's a mix of content ranging from 0/5 to 5/5 and it mostly just kind of averages out to "okay".
The visuals are gorgeous, I love the concepts and setpieces, and the music is great. I appreciate that there's a lot of variety, even if the quality of the mechanics is also pretty variable.
Unfortunately on the less positive side, a lot of the chapters feel rushed - they're trying to fit too much story in too little time, and the difficulty curve is all over the place, not only across chapters but within as well. The game is also pretty deeply misogynistic at its core; women are almost always either absent (less than 10% of notable/major characters are women) or fall into unpleasant gendered stereotypes.
I understand why it influenced some other games, and why it was a big deal at the time, but this is one I would've personally left in the 90s I think.
The visuals are gorgeous, I love the concepts and setpieces, and the music is great. I appreciate that there's a lot of variety, even if the quality of the mechanics is also pretty variable.
Unfortunately on the less positive side, a lot of the chapters feel rushed - they're trying to fit too much story in too little time, and the difficulty curve is all over the place, not only across chapters but within as well. The game is also pretty deeply misogynistic at its core; women are almost always either absent (less than 10% of notable/major characters are women) or fall into unpleasant gendered stereotypes.
I understand why it influenced some other games, and why it was a big deal at the time, but this is one I would've personally left in the 90s I think.