I do not like Sam Barlow's writing. He is especially not good at writing women characters and that is unfortunately a thing he loves to do. The game completely removing combat and turning any and all enemy encounters into a run-and-hide scenario is very boring.

Horror games around this time, and even to this day, have mostly given up on doing combat and I personally think it has really harmed the genre. What makes combat in a horror game "good" is different from what makes combat in any other game "good". But everyone is scared of having their game docked for having "bad" combat.