My biggest concern about this game isn't that I didn't like it all that much, but more that this might have killed the genre. At least in triple A form. The mechanics and such are all here, Taking inspiration all the way from System Shock to Dishonored. But thinking that replaying the same 4 maps over and over would make for a good single player game is baffling. It took me forever to actually finish this as I got so sick of traversing the same areas over and over, doing more or less the same things. And the whole loop thing feels like an excuse to limit the play area this much as you don't even really feel it much when playing. And as a gimmick, I wouldn't even say it's remotely original as it's existed for as long as saving and loading has. It's the same thing, but this just takes longer.

Movement mechanic and such are for the most part solid, but I'm not as big of a fan of having such limited abilities per map. And the guns just don't feel right. Mainly the lack of a good silenced weapon as you don't want to fight every single enemy each time you go through the same area. Just give me a powerful pistol with a silencer, not a nail gun I have to charge where the damage fall of starts at 10 feet.

Reviewed on Feb 04, 2024


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