Apsulov: End of Gods

O jogo tem uma atmosfera que remete bastante à sensação de estar jogando Outlast e Dead Space. Achei bem interessante essa ambientação voltada ao terror de sobrevivência com elementos futuristas. Sua ideia, na prática, até que é bem interessante, mas infelizmente deixa a desejar em sua execução. Sua premissa aborda a cosmologia nórdica de uma maneira bastante diferenciada, reinterpretando elementos tradicionais da mitologia através de uma perspectiva de ficção científica e horror. O jogo transforma os mundos conectados por Yggdrasil em ambientes estranhos, tecnológicos e biomecânicos, criando uma fusão bastante peculiar entre o fantástico e o futurista. Essa releitura também contribui para tornar figuras e conceitos conhecidos da mitologia nórdica muito mais ameaçadores, distorcidos e misteriosos. A narrativa e os diálogos são o ponto forte do jogo. Sua fidelidade aos mitos da mitologia nórdica, incorporada a uma história adaptada aos mistérios de Yggdrasil e ao conceito de Apsulov, permite abordar o misticismo nórdico de uma forma muito mais sombria, biomecânica e aterrorizante. Sem contar que o próprio enredo possui alguns plots twists elaborados e bem-feitos. As mecânicas funcionam decentemente e até que são eficientes em toda campanha, mas sua jogabilidade e exploração acabam se tornando muito monótonas por conta da mesmice. Eu sei que o jogo foi desenvolvido por um estúdio indie, mas se tivesse um sistema de combate mais robusto, em vez de apenas "exorcizar" os inimigos, com certeza teríamos uma experiência mais fluida e agradável.

TL/DR: This is essentially Doom 3 (2004) without the action. It's also quite short and I finished it in 5.7 hours. Story: 7/10 Environment: 7.5/10 Gameplay: 5/10 World interaction: 1/10 Exploration: 2/10 Player choice: 1/10 Apsulov has a good but somewhat predictable story set in an interesting and well crafted facility. Unfortunately, there is very little to explore or interact with. It's pretty, but almost entirely static. Background story information comes in the form of PDAs, similar to games like Systemshock 2, Bioshock, etc. There are some side area to explore if you take the time to explore menus on elevators or break into various rooms, but not much. The gameplay consists of simply sneaking around mostly blind enemies and occasionally blasting one of them; all can be outrun. You will then backtrack to a charging station and continue. The player will get two choices to make in the game, but only one matters at all. There is no deviation from what you are ordered to do. It's a good game if you want a good story set in a cool environment, but don't expect anything more than that. I enjoyed this game and think it's worth every penny I spent on it. I'm looking forward to more from the developer.

6.2 For me this was a very solid 'decent' game, it's not really bad in any particular areas personally but it also never really excels in any way either. What is there is a nice futuristic setting with a pretty interesting viking mythology to fuel the narrative. The environments world isn't explored really outside of the facility and a select few other realms though which could have been interesting to see as it is a future. The monster designs are a bit of a mixed bag. After the initial areas the game does slow down a fair bit to then establish what is then the feeling through the rest of the game. One of the first monsters you encounter is then only used in one other area and I found it quite alright in design. But one enemy is used in almost every other, it's a fine enemy but not the most interesting. There is another enemy type but it absolutely spammed in the last act and it's still not too annoying but does get a little more tiresome as the game progresses. Personally the final antagonist is one of the weakest designs albeit the finale has some charm to it. On whatever the medium difficulty is, it wasn't over-bearing or annoying, the death mechanic reminds me a fair bit of the 2006 Prey, but I did notice it seemed to have some weird resetting in the world as it sometimes spawned monsters that I killed, back in. This meant I couldn't just forget about dying without it getting annoying.

Worth a few hours of your life. ending is satisfying. story is decent. have a whack if its on sale.

Я играл в полной темноте, как дурак. Через 15 минут я уже сидел в углу комнаты, завернувшись в плед, и шептал «нет, нет, не открывай эту дверь, сук...». Игра орёт так громко, что у меня чуть сердце не выскочило. А когда наконец понял, что вообще происходит — было уже поздно, я был морально уничтожен.9/10, теперь я боюсь даже включать свет в ванной.

7/10