gorgeous and satisfying to look at, the visuals are astounding despite being on a huge chunk of metal.
the story's amazing, such lovable characters (except for that 1 ♥♥♥♥) and that ending is basically a nod to mary's letter in the ending sequences of silent hill 2
anyway i'm not surprised this entire body horror deep sea parasite-esque monster ♥♥♥♥ happened because of one greedy snob ass man, (it's always the capitalists for ♥♥♥♥♥ sake...) whole crew working with the drill operations told him that something off was going on with the drill and he just forced-resumed operations, and it doesnt even end there; the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ attempted to leave everybody behind.. look what that costed him, a hilarious end for a man like him
loved how that call with the workers and herrick foreshadowed that the main source of the spread came from the drill, and also; letting that guy that was infected aboard out of pure altruism... day and day again y'all keep proving ellen ripley's point ajudashdjd
alot of interpretations can be made from this whether it's for caz's journey or what exactly is this creature and i think thats exactly what makes this such an interesting game to talk about
EDIT: just read some stuff about the dev's words and some of the art book tidbits and whatever else, they really thought this one out and didn't sell out to some generic mindless creature. matter of fact, the way this thing operates is also intrinsically connected on how this story plays out, just chef kiss writing
from what i understood, this thing basically seeks out ''feeling'', as in, sensing things; which is exactly why it is using humans to do so
that being said, my interpretation is that the creature itself doesn't necessarily seek harm even when it's parasiting off of humans, but instead actively looks for propagation, and it is the hazardous side effects of coming into contact with human biology that makes the infected violent.
as we progress we receive tidbits that those who have become infected were people that caz didn't get along well and this is further established with rennick and also when we attempt to get the generators running; section of the game where the infected person in that area keeps calling out to caz and apparently knows his antics (atleast that's what i interpret..)
the narrative heavily relies on it and the moment you realize it and read up some of the stuff regarding the monster, it all comes together
10/10
