This review contains spoilers
This game was 100% made for the Wii. I know it's a remake of a Nintendo DS game, but it controls just so perfectly (more or less) with a wii remote and nunchuk, the controls are ingenious. The plot is 90% the same as Under the Knife, which I did slander a bit for being repetitive at points and for writing women fairly poorly (I still rated it four stars though), and the same concept applies here: once you get into the grit of doing GUILT missions, that's basically the rest of the game from there on out. A big difference here however is the last chapter (before the X missions) is based on a trip to Europe and dealing with a GUILT outbreak there, including mutated versions of what we've already fought, and multiple strains at the same time in patients.
- Mutated Deftera actually kind of sucks and is just obnoxious with the blood pools
- Mutated Tetarti (not the same one as in UtK2) is a great addition which makes an otherwise easy GUILT strain much more deadly, and frankly it adds some great variety
- Mutated Savato is basically a numbers increase but honestly it's a much more appropriate thematic end to the series than the boat chapter was, and I even liked the boat chapter in UtK!
..speaking of UtK2, why does UtK2 not reference this game at all? I think it's a bit of an odd choice to give Derek and Dr. Hoffman GUILT and then just never reference at any point in UtK2 that they could be afflicted with PGS like the other patients and characters that have it. That's neither here nor there but I find it weird.
Back on track, the other thing that SO majorly diverges from UtK in is that it has a Z-route featuring Naomi Kimishima, who is an excellent character and has fun missions that serve almost as a prototype to some of the ones in New Blood. I wish her route was more fleshed out, but I really like what the game gave us a lot and it serves as a good break from the endless GUILT missions. Chef's kiss.
Ultimately, SO isn't that much different from UtK, but it feels polished and really achieves what it set out to do, which is to make a great remake of the DS game on the Wii.
- Mutated Deftera actually kind of sucks and is just obnoxious with the blood pools
- Mutated Tetarti (not the same one as in UtK2) is a great addition which makes an otherwise easy GUILT strain much more deadly, and frankly it adds some great variety
- Mutated Savato is basically a numbers increase but honestly it's a much more appropriate thematic end to the series than the boat chapter was, and I even liked the boat chapter in UtK!
..speaking of UtK2, why does UtK2 not reference this game at all? I think it's a bit of an odd choice to give Derek and Dr. Hoffman GUILT and then just never reference at any point in UtK2 that they could be afflicted with PGS like the other patients and characters that have it. That's neither here nor there but I find it weird.
Back on track, the other thing that SO majorly diverges from UtK in is that it has a Z-route featuring Naomi Kimishima, who is an excellent character and has fun missions that serve almost as a prototype to some of the ones in New Blood. I wish her route was more fleshed out, but I really like what the game gave us a lot and it serves as a good break from the endless GUILT missions. Chef's kiss.
Ultimately, SO isn't that much different from UtK, but it feels polished and really achieves what it set out to do, which is to make a great remake of the DS game on the Wii.