Just finished.
I just wanted to say what a marvellous game this is. Yesterday evening (Germany-timezone) I finished the game and I had a wonderful time. What made this great to me, let me point some points out:
- Dead Space-like, yes it is. I love the Dead Space-Trilogy, somehow these are unsettling games that pull my strings. I love them and Cronos very, very much does it.
- Storytelling via the snippets of Newspapers, voice-memos is great... even the change if you go too far away and the playback playing in your helmet is awesome
- Gunplay, this felt absolutely great... the weapons had a great feeling about it, especially charging and recoil. It was so much fun, that even the gun is everything you need. Just like the DS-Plasma Cutter, there was a certain BOOM behind it that makes you feel well equipped in all this dread
- Music, this kind of eerie, sometimes futuristic, sometimes medieval sound-design fit perfectly
- Scares... the really got me sometimes. The Phylactery-flashes-jumpscares were very well placed. Usually I don`t like jump-scares, but here it was kinda different.
- Fights. As a longtime gamer of all kinds of Resident Evil, SH and Soulslikes the fights and bosses in this game are not too hard to overcome, but challenging the first time around. Once you get a hold of it and prepare, they are really easy and I must say, they are quite fair. For example, you can lure these two black-somethings in the basement in some kind of stagger-stance if you have enough fire-canisters, so easy work. The final boss is a piece of cake if you dodge (that is run) around a bit.
The only boss I really disliked was the gimmick-boss-fight (church), as it was ganky, but still managable.
- Lore. I have to admit, I needed some clarification at the end and turned to one of the youtubers. ( If you need explanation, this worked for me: CLICK ). Overall it is one hell of a story and I really would like to see Part 2 or DLC, what we are going to do, as now we are open to take on the collective. Or what else the developers have in mind.
Too long, didn`t read: It is a great game that finally took Dead Space and turned it into a unique experience, something I was really waiting for.