PARKSIDE: DECAYED SOUL MANIPULATION

Great game. Buy it!

Honestly, I didn't play the game long enough to leave a negative rating. I'm giving it a positive rating because the ideas are good, and the vision is strong. Here's hoping enemy AI can be tuned to be a bit less collective-reaction. Currently, they're a bit too high-strung, and there's the all-too-common issue of every enemy immediately knowing where you are if one enemy spots you. I can understand the logic, in the future, it makes sense that they'd be able to coordinate and learn of your position. That said, even sharing an enemy's location should take the guards a few seconds to share, so if you kill them immediately, or if you get them busy in a fight, it should delay or stop the process of being immediately spotted and located. All the same, a positive rating from me. I'm not sure anyone should trust a review with only 11 minutes, and I've only played through a part of the tutorial. That said, the tutorial is where I was demonstrated a plethora of gameplay mechanics, and they all seem pretty solid. If I had more patience, (or intelligence), for a game like this, I'd probably play through the whole thing in a single sitting. I also really appreciate the atmosphere of the game. It's very "late 90's immersive sim" presentation, and it's well-done in that regard. I didn't play the actual main game, so maybe it's just the tutorial, but the music was just a single basic song on repeat. Perhaps other reviews could illuminate us on whether or not the music does, in fact, have more tracks to it. I'd assume so, but can't confirm. Anyway, if you're a fan of the 90's-style immersive sim, I'd say give the game a shot. At the very least, try the demo. I'd imagine that would be enough to give one a solid impression of whether or not the game is right for them. I'm refunding the game, not because it is bad in any way, but because I'm in a point in my life where 1 out of 10 games will actually encourage me to play more than once, before they become another part of my ridiculously endless backlog. Depression is a $%#&@...