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After buying this game for 20$ when it was 50% off, I must say - it wasn't worth it
First of all, you won't get any tingling in your brain like you got from Alien: Isolation. It's no horror, but not much of a shooter either.
The whole game you will move from point A to B with the game just deciding to spawn a few Drones if you triggered it by a story event or time limit of about 3 minutes of silence has passed. Shooting mechanics, although have quite unique accessibility features like having the rifle "hardlocked" to aim through the sights and moved away from your body a bit when you raise it up enough, the second option can't be turned off unfortunately. Weapons in general do not feel impactful enough, more like you are shooting from an electric water gun, and throwable mines fly like in jelly from time to time.
And all this while listening to a main, poser of a badass character, with almost an unnoticeable story that bites you into believing that the second half is where everything interesting will happen.
Welp, when I'm at it, the whole second part shenanigans are just sad to see. Having a 40$ game on the release day be transformed into a two part game, when you literally have the last third of the first one just the most basic "run around where you've already been just to waste player time to call it a full game" and moving the "important" plot into the second game for, speculatory, additional 40$. The problem is this "plot" not only won't be enough to hook you up to follow the part two release, you'll know exactly how it's gonna go after the first hour of the game.
And, I must say that despite not being so visually impressive, the game runs quite poorly in comparison to other titles.
I finished this game just because I like Alien franchise and there isn't much to play tbh, and even so, I wouldn't recommend this one.
All the game can offer is mediocrity all over the board.
If you want a horror game - Paradise Hotel literally costs the same 20$ without any sales, has a better gameplay loop, more respect for your time, and can be finished in the same 5ish hours
If you want a story-driven shooter, there are plenty on Steam: HL: Alyx, Metro: Awakening, and many more
If you want an Alien game in VR - sorry, not your lucky day, might wanna try Flatscreen to VR mods for Isolation or Fireteam Elite
TLDR; Don't expect much, anything really, or you'll be disappointed

TLDR; Be careful with investments of your time and money into this one, especially Serena, A-Tams and Malevolent

The Devs clearly lack the vision of the game and thus manage to step on every rake possible, the biggest of which is of course not understanding what content to make and listening too much to reddit and discord without trying to make sense of their feedback. We have constant battles about hardness of content, we have endless balancing issues, we have lack of content, all of which are true and need to be addresses, the only question is in which way.
Because solutions like constant introduction of new grind farms with 3%(approximate number) is not it. Of course people won't like bosses with mechanics, when they take more time to defeat. No one what to beat 75 Colossi to get one boss outfit. No one wanna run 400% missions over 50 times for 5 minutes to fully catalyze a character. No one want to run VEP30 for 5 days to never get cores they needed. Yes, the game lacks truly hard content, but making it a part of grinding process to build a character, moreover making it so random - people gonna optimize all the "fun" out of it. But yes, we got Serena's wings hidden, "Yay"... smh
And here we come to the recent Ines issue. We have both sides that are right about their part of the situation, and devs who instead of fixing the issue just stick a tape over it. Yes, she was strong in high density mobbing, type of battles devs made abundant themselves. Yes, buffing other descendants was a right move(tho I'd say some could be buffed even more), but at the same time we still have a joke of a rework for Luna and Jayber, who can be built somewhat fine, but still enjoyment of playing them is a level below others. And now in addition to this we have "balancing" done wrong, by decreasing here qol, especially if you are not a min-maxer who uses the most recent builds from your favorite youtuber.
Even bigger problem is that while earlier you were investing time, resources or even money into a character knowing that it is with you to stay, now we see it's not. And it's not only with Ines, any other descendant might be next: Gley, Hailey, Blair or Viessa. Not even mentioning that Serena, A-Tams and Malevolent are almost 100% getting hit next (if they won't get scared of course), so I would recommend not investing in them at all and just piggyback on a friend a content you struggle with. And, more importantly, not nerfing Serena with Ines shows that they will just bring down old descendants to sell new ones, like so many other like-minded games do.
Will see what brings the third season, but for now, if you still wanna play it - do, but don't expect much