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Late to the party (ha ha) as usual, I just finished last year's sleeper hit. Yes, it's everything everyone else has already said it was. Sad that the sense of humor and discovery was dulled by my already having been overexposed to the game's key concepts and jokes, by virtue of my having used the Web at all during the last six months. ( Bleep ) Still absolutely worth playing.
Only one real disappointment: the pace is a little messed up towards the end, when you're presented with some truly hairy puzzles with harsh penalties for missteps. I found myself saving constantly, as with an old-school IF game - not because I didn't know if doing Action A would kill me, but because it would take many attempts to get right. The game (using a typical FPS ruleset) lets you save literally anywhere,a o I'd get into a pattern of save, load, load, load, load, load, success!, save, load, load, load... The game made that feel unnecessary for most of its length, so that it breaks down at the end and makes you spend half your time working with the save/load menus is too bad. This in no way kills the game, though.
Only one real disappointment: the pace is a little messed up towards the end, when you're presented with some truly hairy puzzles with harsh penalties for missteps. I found myself saving constantly, as with an old-school IF game - not because I didn't know if doing Action A would kill me, but because it would take many attempts to get right. The game (using a typical FPS ruleset) lets you save literally anywhere,a o I'd get into a pattern of save, load, load, load, load, load, success!, save, load, load, load... The game made that feel unnecessary for most of its length, so that it breaks down at the end and makes you spend half your time working with the save/load menus is too bad. This in no way kills the game, though.