No real puzzles to speak off brother - it's a "take it all in" (atmosphere/environmental storytelling) and "shoot the baddies" game.
It's very reminiscent of dead space in that sense and if you loved dead space you're also going to love this, trust me
Imagine a mix between Dead Space and old school Resident Evil level design. keys, keycards, locked doors from other sides, hub safe rooms etc.
Damn! Sounds right up my alley then. I was gonna wait for a sale due to me finishing up a few games from my backlog, but it's gonna be tough not hitting that buy button.
This, exactly.
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If that's your thing, especially the old school Survival Horror loop of limited inventory, choosing your "loadout" for the next venture out of the safe room and all, this game has that nailed. Even if you fuck up and decide to reload the save or whatever, level design is centered around well-placed safe rooms so it feels natural and exciting to just try again and figure out a better approach imo.
I dont know I personally have opposite impression, I like Cronos but not as much as you guys do.
It's also worth mentioning that there's Observer reference closer to the end which I didn't expect, and Silent Hill one in the middle iirc. I won't spoil any of them though, have fun exploring.
This, exactly.
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Not during the last two parts of the battle during which he teleports a lot. I also used only original weapons and not their alt versions, which I haven't upgraded once and left for NG+ - there's not enough energy during the first playthrough to upgrade even a single gun (except railgun which has only 3 upgrades) to the max anyway, let alone the suit.
I guess it's doable if you focus on just a few weapons, but I also fully upgraded railgun with a total cost of 24K Energy, SMG with homing rounds to 65%, a charging shotgun and pistol to 75%.
I hate to say it but in this case you're the problem. You've replayed the same sections two (3?) times and are expecting it to be different or better? Play on, not retread.
He even says at one point that he'll capture MCs mind just like he did before. I erased this motherfucker from existence as soon as I was able to.
This is one of those games, like Returnal or Souls, where the lore captivates the shit out of me and is way more interesting than the story to me. Again, many elements have been done, but I love piecing together this lore through notes and all. Marcel particularly felt brutal. Then there's the game purposely not letting you "leave" an essence once you commit. You have to erase another. Again, brutal. It's a very engrossing game overall.
You can not pick it up and leave it where you found it btw, at least when it comes to those you don't need to get cuz of the story reasons. And they're telling you that you can only have 3 and that you need to erase one of them to get new ones. One thing that was unfortunate is that you get these echoes throughout the world you can listen to and which can only appear if you have the essence with you, but you can't go back to many of the previous locations to see if they have them too. Maybe it could've been a great idea to make extra echoes for NG+ to expand the story and lore a bit more and... well, maybe they did, I haven't played NG+ yet.
It doesn't look like it. Too me it felt like a separate story (or rather a few of them) which tied to the main plot only cuz you had to find the Pathfinder, but ultimately it's more of a lore thing to explain and show what happened to the Church cuz it was mentioned at the early parts of the game, but never in great detail.
Well, I finally had time to sit down and take my time finishing it. I've already rambled enough. This is one of my favorite games in the genre. It's not perfect of course and I have some gripes that are related to the last third of the game BUT overall I loved this game.
Firmly cemented itself as one of my favorite Survival Horror games ever and aesthetically possibly up there with my favorites. It's just one of those games that hit every spot for me just right. Are the elements derivative, yes, but the way it all comes together and how much passion they poured into this makes it feel so cohesive and good.
This is a hard 9/10 for me and while sales don't point to it, I would be so excited to see what they'd do with a sequel. They really did a lot here with a limited budget and next to no combat experience, it's impressive imo. Both this and SH2R just felt really good to play and be in. Bravo. Feom zeros to heroes in my book.
Already started NG+ on Hard. Ready to get rekt. Won't be able to keep my hands off this game for some time.
I know I'm used to this type of game and all but I still thought it did a great job of relating exactly what is expected of me as a player. It eases you into encounters, makes several in-game lore mentions to scarce supplies, has smart safe room locations so if you botch a "run", there's no real pain in reloading and so on. I don't know, I found the challenge spot on. It never feels punishing but also consistently feels tense and rewards good positioning and choosing your shots.
Yeah, that's fair in a way, I don't play racing games anymore and RTS very few, but in general I don't like that genre. That being said, I can't just say that "x" RTS game is shit because I don't enjoy or like or understand that genre.
Yeah, really good game, IMO the story is way better than SH f, the gameplay/combat as well.Cronos completed! Took me some time:
What a fucking ride, 22 hours of great horror experience. I was swimming with ammo and health near the end, lol.
Story allows for sequels and many theories like
A. Is collective just all the people connected after the change? They created super intelligence and started to get hungry for more "souls" from the past. This is what I think is true.
B. Is collective Ai created by surviving humans? Could be, but I don't think human race had the time to do this. Outbreak was in 1981, global spread of virus would take a year of two - killing humanity in the next few years.
C. Is collective from outer space? Aliens seeking contact with extinct race similar to "A.I." movie or Nier Automata.
The best thing is that all theories could be true - next game will answer that (or not).
I also loved NG+ as time loop, rarely you can fit something like that into narrative.
The sound design in this game is incredibly satisfying. Best word for it. Everything sounds so immersive, like you're there. It made even the base pistol a joy to use the entire way through. Those door activators that sound like hospital equipment creeped me out. The calming beep of the save station.
Tinfoil hat time.
Whatever is in those suits, it certainly shares being physically blind with the orphans. All those things sticking off the suits look like they could be sensors/cameras to me and yea, the helmets don't have vision panels at all so visuals are probably caught with those sensors. It gave me a similar existential dread moment as SOMA, like yea this suit is just stuffed with some biomass to propel it and probably doesn't even have a recognizable face and shit.
All while I started really liking ND-3576...
You're right, my bad. Edited. Also some more theory mumbo jumbo:Better to spoiler tag that brother
Also, my theory :
The travelers are - basically - some kind of cyborgs, it must be biomass controlled/infused by the souls extracted prior - if you noticed, the "souls" in the phylacteries can actually seep through and start controlling them, and in the case of newly released Travelers from a sarcophagus, it's a combo of biomass+software+soul - hence the robotic but still human behaviour.
As for the "collective"maybe it's a reference to the actual biomass/fused people where they actually get to share the same mind (like Zygbert and Anna during that ascension try), some kind of collective consciousness if you will and a new life form that ascended/was created after the "sickness"/plague ended ? or maybe...I'm not saying it's Aliens but...ALIENS
Your observations are also good btw
Man, what a great fucking game, wish someone could erase my memory and start anew, there's SO MUCH potential for sequels that's not even funny...
By the way, both you andGame takes place in December 1981 - this is when martial law started in Poland. In game reason for this was the new infection (in real life - Solidarność). Communist government wanted to control every part of human life so it was like big brother, this was a very fucked up period and game recreates this VERY WELL:
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, any idea on what the time on all clocks means? All clocks in the game are stopped at a specific time. Maybe 1:21 if I remember? Maybe just a nod to Silent Hill 2?
By the way, both you and
I tried to get myself to buy SHf but instead kept playing NG+
