What a cute little monstrousity. I shall pat it and call it Herman.
I have never played this game so I have no idea, so he is Herman.
I wish I could have liked this one. I can tell it’s good at what it does, but I just didn’t enjoy playing it. The atmosphere is great, the character design is awesome, and the gameplay is exactly what you’d like if you like that sort of thing. I struggled to get my brain out of boomer shooter mode tho, especially given
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how hard they emphasise “shoot the robots here”.
But then you try to do that and
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it’s actually really fucking difficult.
Which is of course a standard horror game trope that I should have expected by this point but it just felt jarring. Between that and a few other things I found it more frustrating than scary.
All that said, these things are adorable. I feel like plushies of them would sell really well. Which may have been the point. Sigh.
The robots are like not even the main enemy for most of the game did you get past chapter 3 when you played? The robots are actually kinda supposed to be more conventional it gets a bit more weird when you hit the true premise of the game.
Oh and there are preorders for the plushie https://www.makeship.com/petitions/ic-plushie
I didn’t, I bounced hard off it after my first few encounters with them. That and the distance between save points. Which I get is to add tension, but it just felt tedious for me. Now I’m feeling like I should give it more of a chance.
Id say if you have time give it a bit more of a go. Its a very short game like 8 hours long, i found still wakes the deep a bit harder to get through towards the end cos the enemy encounters were so much more tedious. You can infact just shoot and run for the robots there are batteries everywhere. The later encounters shooting doesn’t do anything and the hiding gameplay feels a lot more organic as areas get a bit bigger and puzzles more complex, feels more akin to alien isolation. Which makes the robots the androids I guess lel
