Dead Space it is not, but a competent if unimaginative survival horror it is. I wouldn't recommend getting worked up about it either way.

I loved every moment of this game that didn't include the awkward and punishing combat. I respect that others may love this aspect of the survival horror formula, but I've never enjoyed it, and it's a drag on all the other aspects I appreciate: exploration, puzzle solving, mystery, atmosphere, and so on, all of which this game delivers impeccably. I found this a deeply frustrating experience, albeit one I would recommend without question.

Like a bullet in the head

Remember when Valve made games? That was good.

It's a good remix of a good game, and that's good?

Inferior to its predecessor in almost every way, the HD collection release at least cleans up some of the garbled textures and makes the game more playable. There are some fairly interesting themes there: pregnancy and abortion anxiety, teenage identity crisis, although their treatment is only skin deep. A bang average experience only really of interest to series completists.

It's nice to not have a snide little comment to add

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Telling a story is a little like eating cake: stuff yourself with a constant fever pitch of ludicrous high drama and you're liable to end up feeling a bit sick.

The Witness would be immeasurably improved if your avatar was a cat.

The returns, they do diminish.

Good cats, mediocre everything else.

Give me a high, wild place amid hills that scrape the sky and I will reach out as if with the finger of an angry god to visit death upon the deserving. Just don't make me do another sewer level please.

I can't type any better, and now there's an old man wearing a shapeless coat who stands in the alley outside my home all night making the sound of broken fan, which is just great.