Before reading this, understand that this is from someone who has completed the game. As such, there are spoilers.

This game has some good and bad things I found from it. But I'm not an expert on games, so take what I say with salt!

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Gameplay

It's fun! I just completed the game and redoing it on hardcore mode. I love how difficult the game can go depending on the number of robots around you. The fighting feels great, from swinging an ax to shooting those robo nerds in the head. The dash is fun! However, something I feel should have been a part of the dodge comes as an upgrade, which I’ll explain below.

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Music

MY GOD, IT’S BLOODY GREAT! I don’t usually spend money on games to get their soundtrack unless it came in like a preorder package and I know I liked the music. But I will 100% be buying it. My only issue is how sometimes the music dies down or doesn’t activate when fighting enemies even though a few seconds ago it did. Otherwise, I would 100% say you need to get the music or listen to it when playing this game cuz gawd damn, it makes the gaming experience amazing

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Diversity

It was eh. They do have a fair amount of cool robots you can fight. However, it eventually gets really repetitive. A robot you were like “Cool! That robot just kicked my arse.” to “Really? 3 of them?” So the basic robots become very repetitive super quick. On the other hand, I think they could have had more difficult robots roaming the overworld rather than the basic mustache bot. Some of the “boss” robots could have been fun to encounter if like your alarm level would slowly raise to like lv 5 or something.

Weapon diversity is kinda lacking. Like I was expecting so many melee weapons and a few guns. But what I got is a few guns and a few melee weapons. I loved the idea of energy weapons. I would have loved to see more.

The glove abilities are kinda cool! There are a fair amount, which you can only use three at the same time. I wish there was a fire power cuz that would have been cool. Rather than having to use one of those vials. As said above, I really think the invincibility while dodging should have just been a component of dodge when you use it rather then having it locked behind a skill.

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Mechanics

The upgrading is enjoyable as you get to gather materials and then upgrade each component. In addition, upgrades actually visually show on your weapon. It was fun to get new upgrades then give them a spin. I also like how if you want to switch upgrades, you get all of the materials back. Same for glove upgrades. Don’t want to keep upgrading a tree or just want more neuropolymer? Just undo a tree and boom, all that neuropolymer is back! Just wished there were more special modes to each weapon. Not to mention, no blocking? Sadge.

A huge issue I noticed related to gameplay is the lack of use of interesting mechanics and, to be honest, poor stealth. They introduce a lot of cool ideas that you get from some of the research outposts like the magnetic moving platforms. It would have been cool if you could use some magnetic environmental device to help aid you in fighting. I think I saw the lockpick mechanic used like 4 times throughout the entire game. Why? You have so many buildings with doors. You could have added them on some of the overworld doors to force the player to clear enough robots so you can get the door open. Now, the stealth is awful. You move so slow that it is a bloody pain to get up behind one robot. However, in the overworld, robots are usually packed closely together, so getting close to one is a challenge on its own. And if one sees you, everyone knows you are there. Deconstruction is a pain. You have to deconstruct one item at a time. Towards the end of the game, I had to individually deconstruct like 10 stacks of shotgun shells, 8 small heals, 4 medium heals, 10 stacks of machine gun ammo, 10 stacks of pistol ammo, 8 things of vodka, and 10 things of milk. ALL OF IT INDIVIDUALLY. Kinda a pain to be frank.

A HUGE issue I have is skipping dialogue and cutscenes. I am currently replaying it from the start and my god, I can’t skip cutscenes. Kinda a pain when some of them take a while to go through. To skip dialogue, you goda spam that skip button, so get ready!

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Graphics

Got nothen bad to say about it. It’s flippen nice to look at. Sadly, my low quality screens do it an injustice. But you can tell how much love went into every wall, every blood splattered wall and floor, the bodies everywhere, the damaged walls, ETC. Golly, it really does make you feel like something went bad and now you’re the last one alive. If you play this game, make sure you can play on ATOMIC graphics and have some good screens. Your eyes will thank me later! Some areas are a bit bland, but the interiors are great! When I saw those blood bloduals coming off those bodies, I was expecting them to come alive and kick my arse, but was surprised when they didn’t. My only minor issue is when you wack it, you get water effects. Huh?

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Expectations VS Reality

Kinda disappointed. When I first heard this was being announced, it was hyped for the concept of psychological horror. Didn’t get much of that. It was kind of like “Wow, dat crazy looken da heck” but I was never like “Oh god, my diaper.” I really wished they had made it more around horror cuz I think that would have made it so much more fun! However, you have no idea how disappointed I was when I saw the clown robot I was super excited to fight was just a side thing and not even an enemy. I was hyped to get my body destroyed by a clown popping out from nowhere.

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Story (I’ll hide this under spoilers)

I was meh. Like wow, the guy is bad, wow. Not the best story in the world, but personally it was not the thing I was really focusing on. That says a lot, if I don’t really care for the story. It was interesting enough, but I kinda figured the ending of yah, he da bad guy. There were some twists that I didn't see coming which was interesting. The cutscenes however tend to take me out of the game due to most of them suddenly going to black then switching to third person. The cutscenes are nice looking but again, for someone replaying the game, you cannot skip many of them.

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So, is it worth getting it?

In the end, yah. Yes, it has a few issues I have found and I’m certain that there are more I may be missing, but ♥♥♥ it, I have been waiting for this game for years. I think as, hopefully, new story DLCs and updates come out, some of these issues will go away as well as more playability. Even with all the negativity I said, I still loved it. No game is perfect and I did not expect this one to be the exception. So, if you want a fun game where you smack the ♥♥♥ out of some damn robot or get bodied by some laser shooten mofo, then this is the game for you! If anything, the universe this game is set in is like robot bioshock.

Enjoy!