The Alters

poor game so much hope but its bad very bad.

Отличная игра. Определенно советую к прохождению любителям выживачей, моральным выборам. ДЛЦ слабее, но тоже стоит тоже пройти.

Today, I finished [b]The Alters[/b] on PC through Steam. I finished the base game and the first paid DLC [b]Last Variable[/b] once, using cheats to go through the story at my own pace, and choosing the dialogue options that worked for my version of the characters. It took me around 45 hours. The Alters is a warm yet intellectual hug of a game that fuses elements of resource management, base building, survival and third-person action with varying degrees of success, for the benefit of a thought provoking story told through the many lives of one man in a planet of dangerous wonders. First things first, most of the elements within it are definitely not appealing to my style of play, as I find heavy resource management and survival gameplay to be tedious and I often think of it as unnecessary padding, so I was already fighting an uphill battle to find enjoyment in the experience. Much to my surprise, that didn't take long, as the meat of the experience, at least for me, was in the dialogue, the complexity of its storytelling, the heart behind it, and in the concept of its plot itself. The story follows Jan Dolski, a builder sent on a space-faring mission to gather a fabled element known as Rapidium, for the purposes of bettering humanity. However, something goes wrong, and the rest of the crew mysteriously perish after crash landing. Having to mine and survive in this perilous radiation-heavy planet, while upkeeping a base all on his own, Jan is forced to make a philosophically and scientifically dubious decision of using said element to create other versions of himself with different simulated life paths that grant each of them the skills necessary to repopulate every position in the crew: his Alters. Quickly after starting, and thanks to my beloved cheats, I was side-stepping the parts of the game that I didn't care for, while being deeply enthralled by everything else the game was saying to me, and in the end, I am sure this experience will stay with me for a long time. Technically speaking, it's a very pretty game where it counts, with a wonderful soundtrack and a vastly underrated and entertaining vocal performance by one Alex Jordan, who plays every single version of Jan, with completely different personalities and voice styles. However, I did run into a few game breaking bugs here and there, although as I played it during the release of the DLC, a lot of those were fixed shortly, just not fast enough to not lock me out of some content. As soon as I finished the base game, I immediately purchased the DLC, and I don't regret it one bit. Last Variable is a substantial addition, and a worthwhile story on its own, following the post-game journey of one of the most important Alters of the main game, for what ended up being one of the nerdiest and most thought-provoking stories I've played in a long time, about the nature of science, why it's worth pursuing, and the struggle between perseverance and accepting one's limitations. Surprisingly, I ended up enjoying the gameplay progression of the DLC a good amount more than the main game, if only because it felt more balanced, and leaned closer into puzzle game territory at times, which is closer to my interests, even if the core loop remained the same. In conclusion, The Alters is a surprisingly wholesome experience, that borrows from many genres and tells a deeply engaging sci-fi coded story, that deep within is actually very human. The Alters, as a whole, is a storytelling wonder, and a delight for fans of interactive narrative experiences like me. In the surface, it's a story about a man persevering against all odds to survive in unhospitable environments, but truly, it's a game about learning and growing from your mistakes, and above all, about accepting yourself, not in spite of what you didn't get to accomplish, but because of all the things that you did get to do. [b]AWESOME ◆◆◆◆[/b]

完全打不开，驱动什么的都更新了

Preparado para una jugabilidad de supervivencia y gestión en el espacio, pero obligado a ser niñera y psiquiatra para los malditos gemelos. El juego tiene buena música y sus gráficos son buenos, aunque su optimización no sea tan buena de vez en cuando hay uno que otro bajón, La historia en general engancha, pero creo que se alargo solo un poco mas de lo necesario. En jugabilidad se nota que quisieron abarcar un poco mas de lo que podían, aun así, cumple con lo suyo. 8/10 mas que nada por tratar de traer algo nuevo y original.

Ein Meisterwerk.