Comment on Is Callisto Protocol a hidden Dead Space remake?
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yes and no.
It’s not as good as dead space, and not as scary.
It does have decent atmosphere, cool visuals, etc. The combat system is very good.
But it falls short in several disappointing ways. The “stealth” system is a joke. There’s a level where you have to sneak around “blind” monsters that only act on sound, except you can walk right up to them and just melee kill them, LOUDLY, without any of the others reacting.
So the stealth sections are completely trivial.
There’s a pretty interesting enemy in the form of the automated security robots if the prison, except it literally shows up in just the tutorial, where it shows you how to deal with them, but then they’re utterly absent in the rest of the game.
The whole game is really impressive in a couple ways (graphics and animation, the combat system) but it feels like 50% if what supposed to be in it was cut, and like several mechanics never got implemented.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Sounds a lot like they tried to make a “game like dead space”. But then by trying to imitate that, they necessarily and almost predictably fell short behind the original.