SOMA

Очень сильная игра. После прохождения оставила сильные впечатления

Я по мере прохождения уже гадал, что будет в концовке, так что я не особо остался удивлён. Однако меня игра смогла удивить по мере всего прохождения, начиная с истории, заканчивая глубокими философскими темами и эмоциями Саймона: они звучат по настоящему, словно это всё происходило наяву. Ни хоррорная составляющая, ни головоломки не помешали наслаждаться игрой, погружаться в её атмосферу и сопереживать персонажам. Их всех в какой-то мере становится жалко. Концовку можно считать открытой, так как она так и не раскрывает то, что показывала вся игра. Игрок сам должен понять, можно ли это считать хорошим или плохим концом. Такой подход к игре очень хорош, Frictional Games одна из тех компаний, кто действительно способен создать хорошую игру для массовой аудитории, кому интересен глубокий сюжет. Метка хоррор здесь необязательна. Здесь нужно просто погружаться в историю.

After reading the reviews and being a long‑time fan of horror games, I figured SOMA would be right up my alley. I don’t mind slower, narrative‑focused games, but SOMA’s gameplay often worked against its own excellent story, making it harder for the narrative to land the way it should have. Unfortunately, I walked away really disappointed. The story is fantastic — the only thing that kept me going after the first 15 minutes — but everything surrounding it fell flat for me. The pacing is artificially slow in many aspects. Ladder climbing, underwater movement, door cycling, water‑draining sequences, carrying *an important late-game item*, even basic traversal all feel deliberately dragged out just to stretch a short narrative into a much longer runtime. On top of that, direction is often unclear, leading to running back and forth through the same rooms multiple times looking for tiny interactables. You can open nearly every drawer, locker, and cabinet in the game, but almost none of it serves any purpose. Yes, you can pick up almost everything — but you only ever use that ability twice.. The rest is just empty interactivity meant to look deep but adds nothing. Gameplay is nearly nonexistent. The monsters don’t add tension; they add downtime. Most encounters boil down to crouching in a corner for several minutes waiting for a patrol to pass, or simply sprinting past them because they pose little real threat. It felt like they exist to slow you down, not to challenge you. The puzzles are basic, usually amounting to “press buttons until the lights turn green.” They require little thought, and feel more like speed bumps than actual problem‑solving. Level design is repetitive, with the majority of the game taking place in same‑looking underwater environments. There’s very little visual or mechanical variety to keep you engaged. Combine all of this with the fact that your choices have zero impact on the story, and the experience becomes pretty underwhelming. Calling this a masterpiece feels misleading. The existential themes and core narrative are excellent, but the execution around them didn't hit. I love the vision, the concept, and the potential — but the gameplay just didn’t deliver for me. I genuinely respect the story and the ideas the developers were exploring, yet I don’t feel the “game” itself lived up to that ambition. The experience often felt like it lacked purpose; I found myself asking “is this over yet?” instead of hoping it wouldn’t end.

Great story, quite surprising at times, atmosphere is dark and tense, nicely designed enviroment and sound efffects. For 2015 release this game has very low hardware requirements. Buy it for yourself or a friend as a gift, you won't regret it. I played it for many hours, not on record here. Well done game from this delevoper.

Не знаю, как это описать, но я просто люблю эту игру, игровым процессом и атмосферой, и графикой. Меня в ней всё устраивает особенно история

Excellent jeu, tant au niveau de l'histoire que de l'horreur.

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