PlayStation Nation |OT| Playing Astro Bot on the Horizon Until Dawn

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I'm playing Alan Wake 2 atm.

I'm back with Saga again. My quick impressions are this:
1. Vibe and atmosphere is very cool. It's mainly what's keeping me engaged.
2. Graphics are very good, some of the forest scenes in the beginning looked real.
3. Sound and audio in general is great.

However:
4. I find Saga's VO direction to be strange: whether she is internal monologuing, talking to herself, or in convo with another person she always sounds the same: as if she is internal monologuing. It's very weird when she's having a convo, but the inflection in her voice doesn't suggest that she is. Not sure if this is meant to be some late-game twist or not.
5. The crime scene board: honestly, just a useless feature. It sounds cool on paper, and I get the execution reasons. But it's just a waste of time imho.
6. Alan's version of the board is even more pointless, but at least you interact with it far less. The main function of using it is no different to the light source mechanic in actual moment-to-moment gameplay, which makes me wonder why it's treated as 2 different things.
7. I find Alan's sequences to be kinda confusing to get through: the signposting on where to go and what to do is not very intuitive imho.


Otherwise, I am enjoying the game and look forward to seeing more connections with Control. But I don't think it's a great game at all.