The Sinking City Remastered

Takie 7/10, pierwsza część gry zdecydowanie bardziej klimatyczna i spójna.

The atmosphere is amazing, all praise dark lord cathulu!

GOOD GAME, anche se a volte l'aria Lovecraftiana si perde rimane un ottimo investigativo. Mi spiace per la fotocamera che praticamente non viene usata mai e per alcune scelte che non sembrano troppo impattare l a storia.

7/10

Lovecraft has nothing to do with this.

Bastante entretenido. Jugaré la segunda parte. Muy interesante la historia en este primero. Jugabilidad repetitiva y nada desafiante. A ver qué hacen en la segunda entrega.

While I recommend this game, it does have plenty of flaws. First of all, I adore the investigation mechanics. Sure they are relatively simple, but also incredibly refreshing. It was the first game to genuinely make me think in a long time, it doesn't hold your hand, it makes you become the detective. I loved it. This style of gameplay did become repetitive by the end, when I reached the final few main story quests, I had gone from wanting to do all side quests, to kind of wanting to get the game over with. LIke I said, the mechanic was fun, but it was all I did for nearly 100 hours, which grew incredibly grinding, especially since a lot of it was just fetch quests. That in itself was a major flaw in the game. So many quests were the exact same thing. Learn about a crime or mystery, get a vague location or information on a location, figure out where it is/go to location, kill a few enemies, return to quest giver, rinse and repeat. The enemies were interesting, each a fun take on Lovecraftian horror, and one enemy in particular scared the absolute ♥♥♥♥ out of me. During the Necronomicon DLC quest (Which I didnt finish due to major repetition), you are sent down a long, dead end alleyway. At the end, there is a large vehicle, and a hand wrapped around the top, I thought it was like, a body slung over the car. As you approach, the hand drops behind the vehicle, which naturally draws curiosity, so I turned the corner, and was met with a one of a kind, gigantic monster that I hadn't seen at any other point in the game. I ♥♥♥♥ myself while I was running away. The combat itself is nothing to ride home about, a bit underwhelming, only made difficult by the stiffy manner in the way your character moves. You cannot efficiently dodge attacks, and often run out of ammo far before the enemy is dead. I found it better to just rush the enemies and beat them with the melee weapon, it stuns them in place and keeps them from forcing you to dodge and weave. Got boring pretty fast. What kept me interested was the story itself, it was so good, a beautiful love letter to HP Lovecraft and his work, while making amends for the... Less favorable aspects of Lovecraft's work. It kept me engaged for nearly 100 hours, but the ending kind of killed the game for me. I get it, it's cosmic horror, there aren't supposed to be happy endings, they were very underwhelming. It was basically "Place mcguffin in one of three pedestals, screen cuts to black, very brief cutscene about the flood coming back commences". There were no grandiose cosmic beings rising, no demoniac rituals, even all the weird rambling about the seed and the woman who was impregnated a horror didnt really have anything to do with the ending. By this point, I was already feeling like giving up on many of the side quests I hadn't done, but the endings were so boring that it fully killed it. I had a lot of fun even with the flaws, nearly 100 hours of 1920s lovecraftian horror was a blast, but the game was seriously held back. I really hope they fix these issues in Sinking City 2, I cannot wait for launch, the demo was a blast, and already felt better than the first game.