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Even after all four expansions, it's hard for me to say how effective the most content-rich post-release support for a AAA game in the history of game development was?! (Seriously, no one makes more than two add-ons.) As far as people aren't tired of opening the game just for an extra corridor, but nevertheless, from a marketing perspective, creating news feed about a 3-YEAR-old game is definitely cool. And, of course, four DLCs are four advertisements for russian "Pyaterochka" shop, which, even without successful sales, will pour money into the publisher's coffers, in addition to the still-existing agreement with VK Play launcher, which has shortchanged russians players.
Well, what about the quality? Firstly, despite the price, this is definitely the longest add-on, which I personally spent about 10 hours on. Secondly, "Blood on Crystal" is something in between.. it's neither better nor worse: If you were satisfied with the content of the previous add-ons, then you won't have any complaints. But if you were expecting a definitive ending to the story, then right away I'll spoil the pitfalls for you. If you were wondering how the writers will handle the branching path from the "good ending," where we outsmarted villain... In short, it was simply a "dog's dream," a simulation of scientist Lebedev in Major Nechaev's brain, including the first DLC and the second about "Limbo" - all of this simply adds to the lore of the love triangle between the major and the refrigerator, and the major and his wife, which isn't entirely true, but I won't spoil it too; That is, they keep the bad ending as the canonical one, bringing together every character from all the DLCs (and naturally, each one cracks endless toilet jokes), but most of the cutscenes are still about the characters from the previous "Enchantments of the Sea" story, whom we barely even got to know (they'll finally discuss Anastasia's useless down jacket, if that's what you were waiting for sure). After completing fourh dlc, you'll be left with the aftertaste of the same "filler," a banal happy ending.. Mundfish couldn't think of anything better than a literal clown cutscene before the credits, set to cheerful music... and I don't think anything will stop the villain (if needed) from returning.
The gameplay from new DLC is a mix of all the problems that were already there: does it need new mechanics? โ Well, here are rafts that can be pulled with a hook (now) over water, which adds even more platforming to the game, and if you thought that the puzzles in the game worked crookedly and were not obvious, then nothing has changed here (I was again annoyed by one place where you had to throw a "fireball" through a super narrow hole, well, who even playtests the builds).. Well, and here you have literally 2 new locks for the entire dlc, where you need to move sticks, and not circles, innovations like in that meme - "okay, so it goes"; ๐ฑ There is exactly one new weapon, a melee spear that rotates 180 degrees, just a reskin, which can be thrown at enemies, like "Thor's hammer"; โ๏ธ And you'll be stuffed with first aid kits again from the start, but deprived of ammo, and the standard Kalashnikov and pistol, which you'll need to upgrade in the refrigerator for the fourth time; They also didn't add new abilities: now you can simply take any skill (Fire, Cold, Hook, or Conductive Foam) at special stations, and for some reason they added collectible dolls that give you passives; ๐ฅ The new enemies are the same old "Bobs", the balance is still too hardcore, and if you haven't played the game for a while, you won't be spared at all, but now the robots can aggregate into a "frost" or "fire" state, which adds a bit of immersion to the game, well, because you'll have to freeze the fire ones, melt the cold ones, and ground the electric ones with your shield ability; There are also some good bosses-manipulators with a long crane, whose eyeballs you have to shoot out, and which might even drop a ball to solve a puzzle, but the main bosses are a reuse of what you've already fought; ๐ There is a commercial break with the russian supermaket - another unskippable cutscene of Nechayev eating crackers, but now it is written into the game's lore and is called "The Fifth Department", which looks a little better; ๐ There are still plenty of new posters, Easter eggs on YouTubers and content-game-makers (and references to other games), and notes on each table where you can learn a little more about Sechenov's past, about the development of polymer bodies (the same corpses with a posthumous "Thought"), about how all countries expressed more than a hundred "notes of protest" and Deep concerns about the Soviet Union, the backstory behind the educational cartoons, and even the reason for the hooks hanging around the complex (yes! They explained even that) - and at the end of the notes list, there's now a note from Anastasia to Mayor, which more simply describes something more relevant to the main storyline; ๐ผ The new remix of Pugacheva`s song is pretty good, but it's only used on the boss; throughout the expansion, only faint echoes can be heard, mostly as we wander through yet another iron complex while listening to Soviet radio broadcasts.
๐จBut the game's art designers haven't run out of steam yet. In my opinion, the game doesn't look as beautiful as the `Chelomey` underwater complexes in the third expansion, but the polymer production plant with hints of "Egyptian sarcophagi," with a hotel for polymer people, and a Park of culture - that's also not bad. There's still plenty to admire in the game, and if you're ready to give Atomic another chance, you can try it: The total running time of all the expansions at a leisurely pace almost exceeds the main game, not that it's worth it, but partially worth it.
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Even after all four expansions, it's hard for me to say how effective the most content-rich post-release support for a AAA game in the history of game development was?! (Seriously, no one makes more than two add-ons.) As far as people aren't tired of opening the game just for an extra corridor, but nevertheless, from a marketing perspective, creating news feed about a 3-YEAR-old game is definitely cool. And, of course, four DLCs are four advertisements for russian "Pyaterochka" shop, which, even without successful sales, will pour money into the publisher's coffers, in addition to the still-existing agreement with VK Play launcher, which has shortchanged russians players.
Well, what about the quality? Firstly, despite the price, this is definitely the longest add-on, which I personally spent about 10 hours on. Secondly, "Blood on Crystal" is something in between.. it's neither better nor worse: If you were satisfied with the content of the previous add-ons, then you won't have any complaints. But if you were expecting a definitive ending to the story, then right away I'll spoil the pitfalls for you. If you were wondering how the writers will handle the branching path from the "good ending," where we outsmarted villain... In short, it was simply a "dog's dream," a simulation of scientist Lebedev in Major Nechaev's brain, including the first DLC and the second about "Limbo" - all of this simply adds to the lore of the love triangle between the major and the refrigerator, and the major and his wife, which isn't entirely true, but I won't spoil it too; That is, they keep the bad ending as the canonical one, bringing together every character from all the DLCs (and naturally, each one cracks endless toilet jokes), but most of the cutscenes are still about the characters from the previous "Enchantments of the Sea" story, whom we barely even got to know (they'll finally discuss Anastasia's useless down jacket, if that's what you were waiting for sure). After completing fourh dlc, you'll be left with the aftertaste of the same "filler," a banal happy ending.. Mundfish couldn't think of anything better than a literal clown cutscene before the credits, set to cheerful music... and I don't think anything will stop the villain (if needed) from returning.
The gameplay from new DLC is a mix of all the problems that were already there: does it need new mechanics? โ Well, here are rafts that can be pulled with a hook (now) over water, which adds even more platforming to the game, and if you thought that the puzzles in the game worked crookedly and were not obvious, then nothing has changed here (I was again annoyed by one place where you had to throw a "fireball" through a super narrow hole, well, who even playtests the builds).. Well, and here you have literally 2 new locks for the entire dlc, where you need to move sticks, and not circles, innovations like in that meme - "okay, so it goes"; ๐ฑ There is exactly one new weapon, a melee spear that rotates 180 degrees, just a reskin, which can be thrown at enemies, like "Thor's hammer"; โ๏ธ And you'll be stuffed with first aid kits again from the start, but deprived of ammo, and the standard Kalashnikov and pistol, which you'll need to upgrade in the refrigerator for the fourth time; They also didn't add new abilities: now you can simply take any skill (Fire, Cold, Hook, or Conductive Foam) at special stations, and for some reason they added collectible dolls that give you passives; ๐ฅ The new enemies are the same old "Bobs", the balance is still too hardcore, and if you haven't played the game for a while, you won't be spared at all, but now the robots can aggregate into a "frost" or "fire" state, which adds a bit of immersion to the game, well, because you'll have to freeze the fire ones, melt the cold ones, and ground the electric ones with your shield ability; There are also some good bosses-manipulators with a long crane, whose eyeballs you have to shoot out, and which might even drop a ball to solve a puzzle, but the main bosses are a reuse of what you've already fought; ๐ There is a commercial break with the russian supermaket - another unskippable cutscene of Nechayev eating crackers, but now it is written into the game's lore and is called "The Fifth Department", which looks a little better; ๐ There are still plenty of new posters, Easter eggs on YouTubers and content-game-makers (and references to other games), and notes on each table where you can learn a little more about Sechenov's past, about the development of polymer bodies (the same corpses with a posthumous "Thought"), about how all countries expressed more than a hundred "notes of protest" and Deep concerns about the Soviet Union, the backstory behind the educational cartoons, and even the reason for the hooks hanging around the complex (yes! They explained even that) - and at the end of the notes list, there's now a note from Anastasia to Mayor, which more simply describes something more relevant to the main storyline; ๐ผ The new remix of Pugacheva`s song is pretty good, but it's only used on the boss; throughout the expansion, only faint echoes can be heard, mostly as we wander through yet another iron complex while listening to Soviet radio broadcasts.
๐จBut the game's art designers haven't run out of steam yet. In my opinion, the game doesn't look as beautiful as the `Chelomey` underwater complexes in the third expansion, but the polymer production plant with hints of "Egyptian sarcophagi," with a hotel for polymer people, and a Park of culture - that's also not bad. There's still plenty to admire in the game, and if you're ready to give Atomic another chance, you can try it: The total running time of all the expansions at a leisurely pace almost exceeds the main game, not that it's worth it, but partially worth it.
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