VideoGame 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.
VideoGame Solid effort with some wasted potentional.
Stasis is a lovingly-crafted adventure game. The atmosphere is oftentimes superb. The art direction for the environments is pretty impresive altough sometimes items were very difficult to identify from scenery, with character models not being as good and appearing like silhouettes. The sound design was actually pretty good, but the soundtrack was mostly umremarkable other than a couple ambiance tracks. Some environment interactions are inconsistent from room to room, and a few times a description threw me off.
Puzzles for the most part are logical and well designed, however due to lack of feedback and some accidental misleading the experience becomes more frustrating than it shoudl. One puzzle involved the combination of two items, but John says that is impossible instesd of maybe I need a surface to do it. Most puzzles make sense though and you could figure them on your own.
As for the writing, the game starts out pretty strong. You go in blind, explore the abandonned ship, and find logs that give you an idea of what happened. I will say there have been way too many logs it becomes overwheling, there no visual storytelling or the main character saying something that saves him from being blank whatsoever. Th other characters are not so much better anyway. This game is often times compared to that old adventure game Sanitarium, and funnily enough it is accurate, both stories have a solid half in tje story, but they become silly towards the end it just becomes weak. The game turns into a B-Movie with some absurd puzzles and a wierd yet obvious climax that happens too fast like the developer saying "I quit!". Due to adventure games relying on writing, this will leave a bad impression for some.
Overall, Stasis is a mostly enjoyable adventure games with a few flaws and a weak third arc that may make you dislike the game (You will probably find other adventure games that are done better and with more than half this game's price if you are willing to look, for example there is Dropsy). If you are a fan of sci-fi and adventure games I can say it is worth a shot, this game would be good for a sale. For a first game, Stasis is actually a good start for The Brotherhood, I can see them making something better and more interesting in the future, they even aknowledged the flaws and listening to feedback.