Status killerstar Nov 12, 2025
After a few more sessions, I'm coalescing into an opinion of the game.
I think it's overall decent. Interactions are engaging enough without being too onerous and clunky. I like the voice acting and writing fine. It's a bit uneven; some of the dialogue is wonderfully naturalistic and believable. Back and forth between the main character and Yana or Max …
After a few more sessions, I'm coalescing into an opinion of the game.
I think it's overall decent. Interactions are engaging enough without being too onerous and clunky. I like the voice acting and writing fine. It's a bit uneven; some of the dialogue is wonderfully naturalistic and believable. Back and forth between the main character and Yana or Max are great. Enemy chatter is less great; sometimes thre's just too much swearing that reeks of overwriting.
Gameplay is also fine. Sneaking around can be fun, especially with physical crouching, but it's a bit limited due to the simplistic enemy AI. The game gives you a bunch of tools and weapons but nothing is as powerful as sneaking from behind and punching guys in the head for a one-punch-kill and no ammo usage. There's also these dogs enemies that run around and do hit-and-run attacks. They were scary the first few times until I realised that the best strategy was to wait in the corner and shoot at them when they come at you.
One issue is that there is too few interactions with the environment. One of the most fun In Half Life Alyx was just rummaging around desks, opening drawers looking for resources. Here, while there's a lot of set dressing, most of it is non-interactive so the world feels very static and unresponsive.
