This had me on a real rollercoaster of emotions ending with a crash and burn. Before I even mention all of my issues with this, I just want to get into saying some things that I enjoyed from this. Most of it being the art-style, the atmosphere, and it's ambience. The body horror of just getting ripped apart from a parasite that sinks its teeth into your body as you desperately try to make it through, it all sends down a creepy weird feeling that I've never felt before coming in fresh into the horror medium. Within all of it's style and it's body horror candy to the eyes, it all lacks completely within its spine holding the 'gameplay'. The weapons you obtain throughout your playthrough are as follows. a short-ranged melee jab thing, a flintlock looking pistol, a shotgun, and a grenade launcher that doesn't show up 'till the last 20 minutes of the game. Most of these weapons are all janky and are tedious to deal with in their own way. With how each of these weapons it made confused about what people were expecting out of it with the worst gunplay I've seen this year. When you're not in a fight with an uncircumcised cock that's spitting on you, you'll run into the plenty of puzzles that come in as a bit of a downtime. Generally when I had these moments come up I couldn't help but compare this to Stray. Were they enjoyable? Some of them were, it felt like most times it wasn't even that like in Act V where you had to just had to wait for a perfect time to shoot your grenades at a perfect time or something borderline stupidly impossible without understanding it like the 2nd light puzzle on the third act. Speaking of the third act and light puzzles. I had ran into a issue with this game I genuinely wouldn't have thought would be an issue with a game period. There was no manual saves to be made to save my ass. All I had to go off on was auto-saves, you might be thinking to yourself it'd be all fine and easy. Just don't think about it, it'll just go ahead and do all the work for you. But no, you'd be incredibly wrong. After getting stumped on said puzzle on said act, I had loaded up a save that sporadically actually does it's job and had to re-do an hour's worth of progress.

This game asks way too little of you to even be demanding of it's 40$ value. Don't pick it up unless you plan on playing it on Game Pass or buying at the steepest discount possible. If you're genuinely expecting something like Doom Eternal or the plentiful of other Boomer Shooters like i've seen others hype it up to be prior to launch, it's not like that at all.