Simply put, a great idea, a lackluster execution. While the developers nailed right on the feeling of abandonment inside a huge creepy ship... The voice acting is bland at the best of times, the model of the main character looks like it was done in the glorious days of the Black Isle games... from 1998. It almost has no soundtrack and to make things worse, in an attempt to immerse the player in their creepy lil world, the developers scattered logs from the late citizens of the doomed ship...
In every. Every. Every room. And not just small logs, enormous logs with several pages whose reading slows the pacing to a crawl. By the middle of the game I nearly gave up on those completely, except that each time I got stuck, I went to those logs reading them over and over in hopes of good tips on how to get out... to no avail.
And the death thing? Sure, it has an auto-saving feature, but you will end up being knocked sometimes before some scenes happened, meaning that you will have to have the marvellous opportunity of hearing the bland voice acting over and over again, oh, have I also mentioned that you can't skip anything? So you will end up saving often regardless.
Spoilers ahead!
I'm warning you!
By the time you finally see your child, you are so annoyed by the main character's unskippable whining, added to the fact that the girl is rendered in a way it makes the baby from twilight look real (I wish I was kidding) the scene of her being slaughtered by the monster of "Splice" ends up being hilarious. Oh yeah, until after the main character starts slugging and crying in an unskippable way.
Also, it's kinda hard to be horrified when you discover that the grey aliens that you meet in the lab are supposed to be human hybrids with... something...
Nevertheless, I finished this game simply because of the 'I was already so far, why not finish it?' feeling. Stay clear.
Not that great...
Simply put, a great idea, a lackluster execution. While the developers nailed right on the feeling of abandonment inside a huge creepy ship... The voice acting is bland at the best of times, the model of the main character looks like it was done in the glorious days of the Black Isle games... from 1998. It almost has no soundtrack and to make things worse, in an attempt to immerse the player in their creepy lil world, the developers scattered logs from the late citizens of the doomed ship...
In every. Every. Every room. And not just small logs, enormous logs with several pages whose reading slows the pacing to a crawl. By the middle of the game I nearly gave up on those completely, except that each time I got stuck, I went to those logs reading them over and over in hopes of good tips on how to get out... to no avail.
And the death thing? Sure, it has an auto-saving feature, but you will end up being knocked sometimes before some scenes happened, meaning that you will have to have the marvellous opportunity of hearing the bland voice acting over and over again, oh, have I also mentioned that you can't skip anything? So you will end up saving often regardless.
Spoilers ahead!
I'm warning you!
By the time you finally see your child, you are so annoyed by the main character's unskippable whining, added to the fact that the girl is rendered in a way it makes the baby from twilight look real (I wish I was kidding) the scene of her being slaughtered by the monster of "Splice" ends up being hilarious. Oh yeah, until after the main character starts slugging and crying in an unskippable way.
Also, it's kinda hard to be horrified when you discover that the grey aliens that you meet in the lab are supposed to be human hybrids with... something...
Nevertheless, I finished this game simply because of the 'I was already so far, why not finish it?' feeling. Stay clear.