Faraday Protocol

I am so divided on this game, to rec it or not. On the bright side, the game does a decent job in puzzles (for me most of them sat right in the middle, not too easy or too hard, except towards the ending, the boss puzzles were way too easy), dialogues are fully voices acted, atmosphere is decently build, movement is fluid enough; that’s it really, just a decent FPS puzzler, give it a try after you finish better ones, like Portal, Talos Principle, Entropy Center, Turing Test, Lightmatter. But, I need to mention the dark side too. Starting off with some puzzles, while most are alright, some throw moments of “Where the balls do I find the button!” they are also quite long and tedious, requiring a lot of going back and forward, compared to let’s say the most popular, Portal, I can solve 4-6 chambers during the time it takes to solve one in this game (again, not all puzzles are like this, but some). It also has a bad habit of introducing new elements without explaining anything. Then there are the platforming sections. Some chambers/areas have sprinkled around a bit of platforming, and let me just say, good thing they are kept to a minimum cuz while I did say movement is fluid enough, the exception is regarding platforms especially the trampoline ones. But my biggest issue was the story. It starts off letting you see the outdoors, letting me believe it will be something like Talos Principle, but just 1 minute later it threw me into a test facility… and that’s pretty much the issue, so many of these FPS puzzlers center around testing facilities, I am growing sick seeing them. And another slap on the face, is that the boss/villain is a robot/AI. To close up, a personal peeve I had was the fact that the game does not have a Zoom in/out button, and some symbols you need to solve puzzles are too far and with my poor 1080 monitor I had to kiss the screen with my eyes too see some of them. Anyway, the game is alright, but just that. Nothing special, but it does scratches that FPS puzzle need if you are looking for such a thing. I grabbed it for 2$ during sale, and yeah, it was worth that much.