okay as always my background:
1. I like previous games(2nd game was amazing)
2. I really liked the first book
This game is both amazing and kinda meh. Speaking of visuals, art direction - wow. This shit is beautiful, technically is so god damn nice looking, and art style oh man the art style........... This Post-soviet atmosphere is amazing, so many details, such as a love letter from the devs.
And ofc the train. Avrora is amazing, again, the models and art is pure joy. Might be my fav train in video games. You can explore it and talk to ppl, smoke at the nose, and the train is the main vehicle in the game and the story. I love trains.
Also, the story is good. But there is one thing that ruined it for me.
Now the bads:
1. Artem is silent. Yeah, I get that it was like that from the first game, but god damn, it just ruins it for me. The story is centered a lot on him, and he is the one that takes decisions and everything, not the player. And it's very obvious that he is an established character so..... So it's just painful to watch how the devs avoid writing normal dialogues where Artem is supposed to answer.
2. Grind & crafting. I played this game on hard and I got so fucking tired of pickup every trash that I see. I deadass was playing this game like 60% of the timer watching at the floor, cuz you need these resources to craft everything. I'm so done with the crafting mechanics like this one.
3. English VO - bruh, don't know how I got the English version but damn that was bad
4. World kinda became too crazy and open. I couldn't get rid of the feeling that I was playing some Fallout sometimes. It kinda got too crazy and unrealistic. Not to say that in books/first games, there weren't crazy factions/groups and everything, but this feels just too much. Fucking Caspian, idk man. Thankfully it ain't that bad, and the end is especially nice and reminded me of a lot of the first games.
Overall good game, but 2 things ruined it for me: Silent Artem and fucking crafting. Probably had to play on normal or easy, to avoid resource management
1. I like previous games(2nd game was amazing)
2. I really liked the first book
This game is both amazing and kinda meh. Speaking of visuals, art direction - wow. This shit is beautiful, technically is so god damn nice looking, and art style oh man the art style........... This Post-soviet atmosphere is amazing, so many details, such as a love letter from the devs.
And ofc the train. Avrora is amazing, again, the models and art is pure joy. Might be my fav train in video games. You can explore it and talk to ppl, smoke at the nose, and the train is the main vehicle in the game and the story. I love trains.
Also, the story is good. But there is one thing that ruined it for me.
Now the bads:
1. Artem is silent. Yeah, I get that it was like that from the first game, but god damn, it just ruins it for me. The story is centered a lot on him, and he is the one that takes decisions and everything, not the player. And it's very obvious that he is an established character so..... So it's just painful to watch how the devs avoid writing normal dialogues where Artem is supposed to answer.
2. Grind & crafting. I played this game on hard and I got so fucking tired of pickup every trash that I see. I deadass was playing this game like 60% of the timer watching at the floor, cuz you need these resources to craft everything. I'm so done with the crafting mechanics like this one.
3. English VO - bruh, don't know how I got the English version but damn that was bad
4. World kinda became too crazy and open. I couldn't get rid of the feeling that I was playing some Fallout sometimes. It kinda got too crazy and unrealistic. Not to say that in books/first games, there weren't crazy factions/groups and everything, but this feels just too much. Fucking Caspian, idk man. Thankfully it ain't that bad, and the end is especially nice and reminded me of a lot of the first games.
Overall good game, but 2 things ruined it for me: Silent Artem and fucking crafting. Probably had to play on normal or easy, to avoid resource management