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finally got around to playing Atomic Heart after spending half a month wanting to and never getting the chance and so far it's been a lot of fun! made the absolute correct decision and went with Easy difficulty this time. i'd played the demo on Normal difficulty and uh....died a whole bunch. game's really reliant on dodging if u want to live, and i hate dodging normally but even more so in first person. -_-
that aside the gameplay's pretty enjoyable. so far there's been a very nice balance of combat, platforming, and puzzle solving, and while the platforming isn't implemented as well as it could be (lbr first person platforming isn't great) it's still really fun and satisfying when i stick a jump.
the puzzles also aren't very difficult, but i really like the timing ones for lockpicking. i mean mostly it's just very funny to me that P-3 has to stand there snapping his fingers over and over.
speaking of P-3: i love him a lot. he's genuinely pretty horrible, and also canonically really fucking stupid, but that adds to his charm as far as i'm concerned. the fact that he's just this big dumb idiot surrounded by scientists is so, so good. here's some very good P-3 moments (only mild, very very early game spoilers):
( cut for length + chonky screenshots )
anyway, real positive start so far. excited to finally get out of this first area and maybe even see some scientists instead of just talking to them via the weird tentacle hand thingy.
that aside the gameplay's pretty enjoyable. so far there's been a very nice balance of combat, platforming, and puzzle solving, and while the platforming isn't implemented as well as it could be (lbr first person platforming isn't great) it's still really fun and satisfying when i stick a jump.
the puzzles also aren't very difficult, but i really like the timing ones for lockpicking. i mean mostly it's just very funny to me that P-3 has to stand there snapping his fingers over and over.
speaking of P-3: i love him a lot. he's genuinely pretty horrible, and also canonically really fucking stupid, but that adds to his charm as far as i'm concerned. the fact that he's just this big dumb idiot surrounded by scientists is so, so good. here's some very good P-3 moments (only mild, very very early game spoilers):
( cut for length + chonky screenshots )
anyway, real positive start so far. excited to finally get out of this first area and maybe even see some scientists instead of just talking to them via the weird tentacle hand thingy.
