Hi everyone. As a gamer who has been playing games for around 25 years, from the Atari and PS1 era all the way to today, I honestly have to say that this game completely blew me away.
I played it during the first few months after release through a subscription service, on my 2022 ROG laptop, at high settings in Full HD. And honestly, I was shocked, excited, and genuinely surprised by the insane level of detail throughout the game. 🤯
During my entire playthrough, I encountered only one real bug: a cinematic scene suddenly skipped itself. I also experienced some occasional frame drops, but simply going back to the main menu and continuing the game fixed them. What’s even more impressive is that I was playing on hardware that was actually below the developer’s recommended specs for those settings, yet with a few tweaks I was able to finish the entire game comfortably at high quality.
After the later updates and newer drivers, the game also became a great experience on a 4K TV and an ultrawide monitor.
I even followed the development of the game and the work done by the team, especially the CG Art artists, and I have to say: from a technical and artistic perspective, this game is incredibly polished.
I actually finished it three times. And honestly, that was partly because I kept seeing people compare it to Dead Space and criticize it for being “too repetitive,” “not like this,” “not like that,” etc.
But for someone like me, who never really liked the Dead Space Remake and didn't even play it when it came out, this game was genuinely a fantastic experience.
One of my personal gaming dreams is to run this game in native 8K. A few YouTubers have already done it, and when you see the results, it becomes very obvious just how far ahead this game was visually. It honestly looks like a game that came several years ahead of its time, even compared to many modern releases.
And here’s the crazy part: it was made with Unreal Engine 4.6!
It’s honestly a shame that we're apparently not going to get a bigger or more advanced version of this game. But who knows? Maybe someday things will change.
I also watched the full interview with the development team, which was over two hours long. They talked about some really interesting things, including how COVID absolutely devastated their development process.
On top of that, the company asked them to port the game to PS5, which created a whole new set of challenges. A new console, new problems, COVID, and everything happening at the same time basically made an already difficult project even harder.
Anyway, if you actually made it this far, thank you so much for reading. ❤️
I just wanted to share my experience as someone who has been gaming for 25 years and genuinely appreciates what this team accomplished.
