Second time playing it, and it's just as bad as I remembered it. Last Light is a mess.
It's not an immersive sim. It pretends to be one, with minimalistic HUD and "alt routes", but when it really counts the game doesn't care about your expression. You do what the script demands it, and even when you aren't shackled by it, you're penalized by not taking the intended route.
It's not a survival horror. Stealth absolutely sucks and it's super inconsistent. Humans have the vision skills of a bat, but every now and then you'll get spotted through a wall too. Beasts are fully scripted. If the game doesn't want you to kill them, it'll make them dumb and completely unaware. If suddenly the moral system is on vacation and you're allowed to genocide an entire pack of mutants, they'll dart straight towards you like homing missiles.
It's not a run and gun game, despite thinking it is with several arenas and "unlock waves" with obnoxious amount of enemies and limited ammo. The controls also suck when it tries to be a fast paced shooter. You run like an old man out of breath, there's no crosshairs, aiming from the hip has an 180 degree accuracy penalty if you don't have a laser sight...
And probably the worst thing is how the game blatantly lies to you on the difficulty settings. "A more realistic mode where enemies deal more damage, but so does you"? That's bullshit. You can still take the usual Call of Duty worth of bullets and so does the enemies. People shouldn't take a sniper round in the gut and still run about full of vigor. Unless russians have discovered some special superpower with vodka that I'm not aware of, it's as realistic as any generic military shooter.
The story is what kinda salvages this game since it bridges the good 2033 to the amazing Exodus, but dear heavens, this game is an absolute drag otherwise...
It's not an immersive sim. It pretends to be one, with minimalistic HUD and "alt routes", but when it really counts the game doesn't care about your expression. You do what the script demands it, and even when you aren't shackled by it, you're penalized by not taking the intended route.
It's not a survival horror. Stealth absolutely sucks and it's super inconsistent. Humans have the vision skills of a bat, but every now and then you'll get spotted through a wall too. Beasts are fully scripted. If the game doesn't want you to kill them, it'll make them dumb and completely unaware. If suddenly the moral system is on vacation and you're allowed to genocide an entire pack of mutants, they'll dart straight towards you like homing missiles.
It's not a run and gun game, despite thinking it is with several arenas and "unlock waves" with obnoxious amount of enemies and limited ammo. The controls also suck when it tries to be a fast paced shooter. You run like an old man out of breath, there's no crosshairs, aiming from the hip has an 180 degree accuracy penalty if you don't have a laser sight...
And probably the worst thing is how the game blatantly lies to you on the difficulty settings. "A more realistic mode where enemies deal more damage, but so does you"? That's bullshit. You can still take the usual Call of Duty worth of bullets and so does the enemies. People shouldn't take a sniper round in the gut and still run about full of vigor. Unless russians have discovered some special superpower with vodka that I'm not aware of, it's as realistic as any generic military shooter.
The story is what kinda salvages this game since it bridges the good 2033 to the amazing Exodus, but dear heavens, this game is an absolute drag otherwise...