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9.5/10
What an unbelievable game. It is an artistic, literary, and technical masterpiece! In terms of objective skill, this game is boundary pushing to an extreme extent. It is much MUCH better than it's predecessor in every single way. It tells a more engaging story, with better character writing, with better meta narratives, with more engaging gameplay and combat, in a much more well thought out world, and of course all of the years of beautiful advances in graphics have made this game something to behold. In terms of pure graphical quality and resolution, it has already been outclassed by its peers and games that have come before, but the combination of lighting, and level design, and art design as a whole combine to make one of the most beautiful spectacles available in this medium. Remedy has truly set a new standard.
What an unbelievable game. It is an artistic, literary, and technical masterpiece! In terms of objective skill, this game is boundary pushing to an extreme extent. It is much MUCH better than it's predecessor in every single way. It tells a more engaging story, with better character writing, with better meta narratives, with more engaging gameplay and combat, in a much more well thought out world, and of course all of the years of beautiful advances in graphics have made this game something to behold. In terms of pure graphical quality and resolution, it has already been outclassed by its peers and games that have come before, but the combination of lighting, and level design, and art design as a whole combine to make one of the most beautiful spectacles available in this medium. Remedy has truly set a new standard.
10/10
This is the perfect exmaple of what the videogame industry needs more of. Games made with smaller scopes, and budgets, but that still deliver the quality of a AAA game. It's one of the only sustainable paths forward for the games industry.
From art design, to story telling, to sound. It fires on all cylinders to deliver such a specifically crafted work of art. A creative masterpiece that I recommend to everybody. (And try to play it through within a reasonable amount of time lol, do not spread it acorss years like I did. This game deserves every bit of your attention, and it rewards you for it with a wonderfully cohesive tale)
This is the perfect exmaple of what the videogame industry needs more of. Games made with smaller scopes, and budgets, but that still deliver the quality of a AAA game. It's one of the only sustainable paths forward for the games industry.
From art design, to story telling, to sound. It fires on all cylinders to deliver such a specifically crafted work of art. A creative masterpiece that I recommend to everybody. (And try to play it through within a reasonable amount of time lol, do not spread it acorss years like I did. This game deserves every bit of your attention, and it rewards you for it with a wonderfully cohesive tale)
7/10
Finally got to finishing this game in my preparation to play Alan Wake 2. The end of the year is coming up and I had noticed I had barely played any of the big games this year, and seeing as I had some free time and some extra money, I bought Alan Wake 2 and played through this game over the course of two days. I will say the story is very interesting, but the game still feels very "of its time" even with the remaster. Just the way some things are written, the way some things are shown, it gave me a lot of Life is Strange and Until Dawn vibes, even though obviously this game came out years prior and was definitely influential in its method of story telling. But I don't like some of the very dramatic (in a dated way) framing of things. Of course the whole point is that Alan is a fiction writer but they could've done something more mind bending, more weird. I loved all the references to classic horror. All the Stephen King references, and the whole thing with the birds as a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" was great. Having only recently started watching more movies, especially horror classics specifically, this game felt very rewarding to play. Also, surprisingly the actual gameplay was very good in my opinon. I don't know why but for some reason the gunplay and the driving mechanics felt really good. Some of the enemies were definitely annoying and the loop itself became repitive but I would definitely classify the game as a third person shooter, and a relatively good one at that for being more story focused. The story itself was engaging, though again long winded, writerly, and dramatic. It probably could've been shortened but still it was fun to play through.
Finally got to finishing this game in my preparation to play Alan Wake 2. The end of the year is coming up and I had noticed I had barely played any of the big games this year, and seeing as I had some free time and some extra money, I bought Alan Wake 2 and played through this game over the course of two days. I will say the story is very interesting, but the game still feels very "of its time" even with the remaster. Just the way some things are written, the way some things are shown, it gave me a lot of Life is Strange and Until Dawn vibes, even though obviously this game came out years prior and was definitely influential in its method of story telling. But I don't like some of the very dramatic (in a dated way) framing of things. Of course the whole point is that Alan is a fiction writer but they could've done something more mind bending, more weird. I loved all the references to classic horror. All the Stephen King references, and the whole thing with the birds as a reference to Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" was great. Having only recently started watching more movies, especially horror classics specifically, this game felt very rewarding to play. Also, surprisingly the actual gameplay was very good in my opinon. I don't know why but for some reason the gunplay and the driving mechanics felt really good. Some of the enemies were definitely annoying and the loop itself became repitive but I would definitely classify the game as a third person shooter, and a relatively good one at that for being more story focused. The story itself was engaging, though again long winded, writerly, and dramatic. It probably could've been shortened but still it was fun to play through.