Recent reviews by monggolean

Combat mechanics is a hit or miss, typical ubisoft game...
Very high system requirements.
If you want to learn more about Egypt there's YouTube, additionally the time period they protrayed in the game is the most boring part of Egypt's culture.
Overall I will only recommend buying this game if its on sale and its down by 50+%.

2B is love, 2B is life.

When I learned about this game sometime in 2015, I was really excited because someone actually made a game that's set on space and moreso its immersive. Additionally, this is one of the first games to actually support VR (not a fan really but it ticks a pretty good feature so why not!). So when it did came out I didn't made any more thought of not buying the game. But whilst playing it, I realised that this game really doesn't impact me in any good way whatsoever.

Of course the game has pretty darn good visuals but with so many non-mobile games also have this kind of graphics fidelity, I don't see this as a good selling point. (Though that cherry blossom tree is just wow...) Also the way on how the player would control is just wonderful, it may be clunky at some point in time but it really gives the player an idea how one would control something in space (I guess?)

But what really makes me sad about this game is that, for me, the game overall is bland. Sure you get to have a "First Person Experience" (honestly, why the heck did they trademarked this) of an astronaut but I don't see really any good reason on why should I connect with this character. I don't know anything about the character I'm playing besides she's a commander of a crew and she ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up something bad that leads to the events of the game, and there's also her crew. At one point in time I was really really curious about that British guy doing his sharing with his peers but it just abruptly ends. It left me hanging wanting to know more what did that guy do with the commander.

Another pain point in this game is its lousy navigation system, sometimes I have to use my intuition to get to places because the navigation markers are not doing any justice navigating me to where I should be going. And did I forgot to mention the frigging minimap is 3D? eugh. At one point I was just cirling around something trying to find where the heck is the navigation marker leading me.

My last gripe with this game is the buggy game progressing logic. I actually can't finish the game because I forgot to charge up my oxygen tank and died going in the life raft(?) room. When the game places me back to the checkpoint, the door leading to that room is locked and I have no way of going in. I almost also got stuck on another point in the game where I just finished alinging Vocalis antennaes and about to go back to the main chamber, the door is locked. Good thing I just have to go back to one of the antennae rooms to fix this.

In conclusion although the game did made me initially excited, it did not really lived up to the hype it made. I'm not going to refund this game because I give credit to the developers for making such a unique game. But I do wish they took their time on polishing the game story, especially the characters, more and those dreaded progression bugs! I'd probably not going to finish my current playthrough and probably this game would gather thick dust first in my steam library before I have the motivation to play it again.