Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Now Playing: Fear Effect 2 - Retro Helix

 Retro Helix? The hell does that mean?!
Yeah... there seems to be even more fanservice this time around. Me no likey.
 Fear Effect 1 was probably good at its time, but as of now? It's very, very dated. Fear Effect 2 is almost exactly the same... but seems like it'll be a better game.

 The game plays exactly the same as Fear Effect 1, but it feels... tighter. I still shot at invisible walls a few times, which was annoying, but the game seems more lenient. Hana can definitely take more punishment than before. It also seems to have cut back on instant deaths, coupled it with removing load-times whenever you die and restart, which is a godsend. This first disc took me an entire hour, so this game might be longer than the first one.

 The instructon booklet, as well as the intro cinematic, promised me Glas and Deke, but they seem conspicuously absent from the game's boxart and backside, and considering they weren't playable on this first disc... I think they might be NPCs this time around, which kinda sucks since their replacement, Rain, kinda sucks. At least Hana still kicks butt.

  It might be too early to tell, but this one seems to have aged better. Hopefully.

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