After playing this I really need Tenet adapted into a game helmed by Remedy. Pretty unique stuff here for a video game. It's got some of the best world building potential I've seen in a game. Gameplay is a bit clunky and it's another abysmal pc port but the story kept me engaged throughout, like yeah the tv show could've used better writing and depth, even then it maintains a solid ambiguity throughout. Also like how you're in a weird dilemma at the end of each Act playing as the antagonist making choices, it's like you ponder if you wanna make a choice that's favourable to the current character that you're controlling (Antagonist) or screw him over since he's the antagonist and since you mostly see yourself playing the protagonist and support his actions. Act 4 is amazing, like it barely had anything to offer gameplay wise and Jack/Beth were too dumb to let Amaral change the coordinates like that, but everything post that, those bits in 2010 were amazing. The combat system is innovative but because the gunplay is so trash, the combat at times doesn't feel satisfying. The story when I completed felt like a decent time travel fiction that deserved to be experienced, but after I watched this one YT video that puts all the events in a chronological order, I was amazed at the detail the story had outside the cutscenes, like the story we saw in the form of cutscenes, dialogues and tv episodes were just a fragment, cuz there was so many hidden details in the form of intel and documents that you could optionally find. My jibe here is they could have integrated all that story, mystery about Shifters, Martin Hatch, Kim, the end of time into the main game content instead of dispersing it into collectibles even more so when they had the luxury of playing a tv episode after every Act. When I played the game I skimmed through all these docs without paying much attention and this YouTube video by "YourFavouriteSon" caught me up with brief details about those content. This game definitely deserves a sequel and is a really interesting one. I feel like Remedy has made amazing games so far, with no misses yet as I'm still due to play Control and Alan Wake 2. Also yeah the boss fight at the end was abysmal. Who knew Xbox had one of the best exclusives. Massively underrated game. I also recommend on watching that YT video by "YourFavouriteSon" once you're done with the playthrough.

Reviewed on Aug 26, 2023


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