Transience

I like it as a stealth based shooter. Need more of these. Would buy the sequel.

This game has a lot of potential, but in it's current state, I can't recommend it. First the good things. The art style and the visuals look very good and unique and the story is pretty decent so far. That said, the game has a lot of problems. Combat AI is very primitive, after playing the first level you can predict exactly what they'll do in combat. They esseintially push your position in a straight line, they also have very high shooting accuracy, which is where pretty much all of the difficulty comes from. Stealth AI is a bit better, but it still has problems, like enemies don't have any ambient dialogue at all which is pretty unimmersive. The movement feels very sluggish, it was probably made this way for slow tactical gameplay, but some levels contradict that and just throw waves of enemies for you to fight which doesn't feel very good, and I think it's too slow in general, combine all that with the previosly mentioned combat AI problems and the primary tactic is just to sit in a corner and wait until enemies approach you. The light system for stealth sounds good on paper, but in practice 50% of stealth is just finding and shooting out a few dozen light sources, like table lamps, tv screens, vending machines, it gets pretty tedios. This game also has a few decently sized bugs, I've encountered several bugs that soft locked me and it took restarting the level from the very beginning just for a chance that it's fixed.

I got this on a 50% off sale and absolutely had a blast with it. Movement felt smooth, guns felt solid/fun and the customisation was entirely perfect for the game design. Didn't encounter any game-breaking bugs, didn't ever feel like the enemy AI was unfair or useless. Strapped myself in and played through with only three encounters needing a couple of takes to pass on normal difficulty and I'd say that speaks more to my lack of skill at FPS than anything with the game. Before I bought it, I saw quite a few reviews bagging out the cut scenes and voice over during the game but honestly once it booted it up I fell in love with it. It's that absolute Sin City level of noire satire and I can really get behind it. Especially the overwrought metaphors (oh god the river) that have every single last application mined out and then somehow they find more veins of glittering meanings and re-uses of them.

首先，敌人AI太弱智了，还有，优化太TMD差了，不过枪械动画和模型都很不错，但是手感怪怪的，感觉在严阵以待和使命召唤之间

This is quite a long review. I got this on sale for $10 or something, and I have to say that I really don't agree with a lot of the negative reviews. The big gripe is about how the AI is both dumb and laser-accurate, but if I'm being honest I haven't really been overly annoyed by this. The biggest time period of gameplay where I noticed the "overpowered" AI was in the initial few missions (before he gets his suit), which makes sense. On Normal difficulty, if he gets shot three times he dies, and I don't see this as a problem (he's a human, getting shot three times isn't something he can just walk away from). Killing the AI enemies and seeing them ragdoll onto the floor, especially when moving with a silencer on my gun, was super satisfying. It scratched a certain itch the first time I shot one of the mercs and gets me every time. Is the AI kinda dumb? Yes, if they detect you they'll run head-on at you and you can drop them all as they run through the door. Is the AI very powerful in the beginning? Yes, because you, the player, are working against an entire corporation's worth of mercs whose singular job is to kill you, and if you run headfirst at them, they will shoot you and they will kill you. You have no armor. Is the AI frustrating at times? Yeah! I've gotten annoyed multiple times at the AI's behavior, but most of the deaths that had me rolling my eyes were at least partially caused by my own reckless actions. The invisible sniper is definitely a problem (when you jump over the building), and had me stumped for a solid 10 minutes trying to figure out what the hell I was supposed to be doing. I don't like the way that mechanic works. The game is really about the campaign and it seems pretty well-written. There's a lot of explanation in the before- and after-level cutscenes/comics, but if you don't like that just..skip them? If you're on the fence about this game you can always refund it within the first two hours, which should be enough to get through the first mission or two (I personally found that each mission, at least through the first 4-5 of the 9, took about 45-60 minutes). The UI is really nice. I haven't experimented with the on-the-fly weapon customization that much, and to be honest the default pistol is a very capable weapon, but I'd lean more in favor of it than against. I like the game, there are people who agree with me and others who don't. I hope this review gave you some more insight.