Recent reviews by eima

this game is how i found out im not a big fan of walking sims because my goddd i did everything in my power to get into the story but the non-existent gameplay of literally just WALKING made it so painful that i had to quit multiple times and start again and again only to give up again. at this point i cant even get slightly curious about where the story leads to. i might read about it online or whatever (i probably wont). i tried so hard to get into it but no. i just cant.

very cute and relaxing game but has a limit of what you can do each day and makes u revisit the next day to complete quests most of the time

alien isolation but scarier because you are french

tried to really like this game for the sake of the cool art style and the "lore" but the ink demon randomly spawning and making you hide in about five seconds or immediately killing you was soooo not fun. same for slicer: an enemy that u cannot hit or run from randomly spawning to hurt you as a jumpscare gets way too annoying after the 100th time.

i also think the level design is kind of annoying and hard to read for such a linear game. there were a few times i was lost and kept running into the same enemies again and again.
-oh yeah you kill enemies but they respawn before u can even leave the room lol (seriously why do they respawn that quickly)

and the fighting is way too limited and boring without a dodge or blocking system (u can only hit and run around and pray that u dont get hit)

u can sneak-kill enemies but it is almost impossible because of the way enemies patrol the area. someone else always ends up seeing you sneaking around and there is no way to improve it (a skill-tree of some sort to increase your crouching speed would be a good choice i think)

+ shout out to the voice of ink demon tho lol that was pretty cool.

+ also the dishonored-like "flow" ability and the bioshock-like themes !! i liked those details :)

overall its not the worst game ever, definitely gets inspiration from other succesful and fun fps story games but definitely needs a strong will to keep playing because of the other poor design choices ive mentioned :/

> cant say much about the story as i cant bring myself to finish it atm.



tldr; gets inspiration from dishonored and bioshock but implements these poorly. combined with other design choices, the gameplay becomes pretty annoying. cool world and art style but gameplay itself isn't very fun.

i found few of the puzzles hard to figure out without googling them but overall it was a fun experience!

also i liked the main theme of "the entire point of life is basically to have fun hehe :p" as MY ending screen said: "here, within the core of our very being, all that matters is to ask yourself this: was it a fun journey"

half the time i was confused as to what to do or where to go because of the confusing design of the levels (despite being a VERY linear game the level designs make u feel like you have multiple choices to run from the enemy) and kept dying because the game made me run into dead ends which made my gameplay very frustrating to a point i just gave up and might not even try to finish this boring dlc tbh :/

i was very curious about the story but my god i just couldn't stand the gameplay and the pacing because it's just painfully slow to a certain point you forget what you were supposed to be doing and get lost. I might read about the story online later but i simply cannot bring myself to play. If you're into more of a walking sim then you might enjoy it i guess? I genuinely tried to play it again and again but always ended up getting too bored and quit because i couldn't even care about what happens :/ seeing other negative reviews complaining about the same pacing issue after playing for 50+ hours made me realize i don't want to waste my time any more than i already did :/

was anyone gonna tell me that i can actually look up and see the horizon by dragging the mouse down??? because i played 3/4 of the game staring at the ground thinking "hmm this sure is an interesting angle choice"

aah this game is so chill!! *tries fishing* nahh nvm

i LOVED the art style and wanted to really get into this game and learn its story but the terrible game design made it impossible. Missions are all very boring fetch-quests and the game itself is super buggy. I played the game from the beginning twice because an elevator bug got me stuck and im having another bug atm at chapter 3.

Mission Rewind
In Chapter 3: Rise and Fall, if you save your game, leave, and return, your mission may be set the previous one without moving you in the chapter, causing a softlock which can only be fixed by restarting the game from the beginning.

I cannot bring myself to start from the beginning AGAIN (even tho its a very short game) knowing there is a possibility i'll run into another bug and restart again and again, so i guess i'll never get to finish this game :/ im just gonna stick to reading the books for the lore :p