I've just finished my first play through literally 20 minutes ago. Is the game short? Yes, but it still took me 10 hours. However one reason it took so long was because I did something kinda dumb. I totally forgot to use Blacksight, which means some of the tougher fights took me a multiple attempts to get through. But I guess I can bear witness to the fact that you can play through the entire game, on hard without using Blacksight once, except for the one sequence early in the game when you automatically go into Blacksight as the Blacksight tutorial. If you want to make the game a bit more challenging and interesting then I recommend not using Blacksight ever.
If you look at my game collection you will see I almost never give games 9/10 or more. Most game have things that annoy me or basic design faults that mean 9+ is hard to give. So when I say I give the game a 7/10 that's a better score than what people have been conditioned to think. I liked the game a lot more than the people who gave it a 6.5 and had very little good to say about the game other than the graphics. But I still only think it is a good game. There is a helluva lot they can improve on for a sequel to make it a great game.
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