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What started as a unique experience, quickly turned into another blandish Bioshock / Dishonored copy.
I played the opening of Atomic Heart - where the Robots take over - and was blown away. The cinematography, suspense, and action were top tier. And then I continued to play, and all that spectacle slowly faded away. I stopped around the mark where your objective was to get orbs or something to escape, and then I had enough. I thought: "Are they really going to make me go through all these rooms before I get some kind of exposition for the main story?" And the answer was yes, so I quit while I was ahead.

The theme (at the beginning) was phenomenal, and the characters (while I didn't play enough to get a good grasp of them) seemed hopeful. Unfortunately, my abandoning of the game was caused from the subpar gameplay that I had experienced after this, and the stereotypical combat.

Maybe in another life, Atomic Heart.

Reviewed on Apr 01, 2024


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