So I do what any normal player would do I take a step onto it. After making my way up the elevator and onto the platform where I bear witness to a giant whale that breaches out of the water, a platform forms out of nowhere and attaches itself to the one I’m standing out. Take, for example, the introductory sequence. I don’t know if they’re channelling their inner-Bethesda, but this game has some issues. There’s a lot of times when I would experience a problem and think “wait, is this a glitch or a design choice?”. Look, the game is weird, I think as a reader you can already see that. And I know these characters aren’t poor and are trying to save money on electricity because that futuristic apartment was the prettiest home I’d ever seen in a sci-fi video game. Not only that but with the number of light sources in the game, it’s still dark (I had to max out the brightness to see where I was going most of the time). The edges of objects are so blurry, even in docked mode (I’d attribute it to terrible resolution scaling), and the bright, flashy lights can nearly give you a headache. In terms of visuals, it’s as if they took it out of the oven half-baked and sent it away to the customer. Most of the time you’ll get an on-screen notification saying “You can’t run here” and you’re stuck at pregnant lady/grandma speed. She has the option to run, but that’s sometimes only when the game feels like you should have control of the character. If she takes a phone call, it’s like someone has tied her legs together and she can move at a shuffling pace. But once you’re out of that memory, and she’s no longer pregnant, her walking speed is still that of an 80-year-old grandma. I get it at the start she’s pregnant, and she’s struggling to walk around. Even worse than that, she’s so incredibly slow that I can barely call it walking. The most glaring of issues is that it feels mostly like a walking simulator.
The gameplay has huge problems right off the bat.
That’s the strange introductory sequence completed. Upon that revelation, you awaken in a chair and experience the second portion of the game aboard a spacecraft with your crew. Turns out, these are all memories that you’re experiencing, albeit at least one has drastically malfunctioned (hint: it’s the second one). Even more weird stuff here: your husband’s head is in a container floating in the water, some strange orb in the center of the room distorts and warps space around you, and a huge whale breaches out of the water to surprise you. After completing a stock standard errand and witnessing an insane in-house light show, you’ll then awaken in a strange chamber overlooking a body of water. As you fumble your way through the house to find the utility box, a strange humanoid object appears in front of her. Elea is sitting at home, speaking to her husband, when the power cuts out and the house goes completely dark. You first begin the title seeing that Elea has chosen to undergo a memory-altering procedure, which sets up the initial portion of the story. Seems like a simple premise, right? Well, it is.
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