#Alien isolation anesidora cut scene trial

I also think it might've been beneficial to mark a certain alien as 'your' alien, to reinforce the idea of it learning your tactics and present the idea of it hunting you specifically as a justification for it always being nearby. Cutting back on the number of aliens implied to be aboard could've helped, and the station doesn't need any help going straight to hell anyway once it starts falling from orbit.

Communicating the scale of the station and the relative scale of the alien threat is a huge, maybe impossible challenge for a game constricted (mostly) to a single perspective the film was intimate in scale for good reasons. The idea of the nest was fantastic, going there was great in gameplay and in presentation (the sound when the whole thing comes violently awake is just incredible, and the scenario is sandwiched between runs in the reactor core, which is amazing aurally as well it must be overwhelming with a good sound system), but it really makes you wonder why the station wasn't overrun before.

The scene makes me wonder where Mother's actual computing hardware is if it takes up so much space, but this is also the universe where human-like AI is common and contained in the space of a human brain, so I should probably stop wondering. The fact that you've already gotten a peek at a recreation of Mother on the Torrens takes away from the scene too. The reveal that the huge dome is actually covering an exact clone of the Mother system from the film makes it seem like Seegson just stole the tech from Weyland Yutani and covered it with a fancy dome mostly for show, but the swelling music gives the scene serious grandeur. I'm not sure if the scene where you interface with Apollo was meant to be comedic or awe inspiring or a mix of both. What, was the alien going to be standing right on top of the bomb if you hadn't walked in?Īmanda doesn't even react to Samuels' heartfelt last words ('I wanted you to have closure'), what's up with that? And was that sentiment programmed? Samuels was clearly the Bishop of this game, but underdeveloped just like everyone else sadly. How so? The explosion still hit the alien, it just didn't kill it. When you first meet Waits in person, he accuses you of messing up his trap. It doesn't help that the delivery of the line is off, but whatever. If he was blaming himself for her death they could've done a lot better than introducing that idea with his last line. Speaking of Marlow, what's with his last line? 'I loved my wife, and I killed her.' Huh? The chestburster did that. An original character might've allowed them to do more. Otherwise, Amanda's arc is 'she's trying to find out the truth of her mother's disappearance, then she does.' Then it's over abruptly. The only really interesting thing they did with the Amanda/Ellen dynamic was Marlow's line during his attempted mass sacrifice that 'if your mother was here, she'd be helping me.' That actually gave me pause, and I appreciated it. I can't help but think I would've preferred having an entirely original character as the protagonist if I'd known where the plot would go in the later chapters. I know it's part of the design choice, but when you're mowing down Joes and humans, and aliens can canonically be damaged by them, it feels weird. One last thing that was odd is that the Alien's invulnerable to everything (tho I haven't tried Bolt gun). In the future, Humanity needs to have bio-signature scanners, lol. Was hoping for a bit more of a climactic Aliens Finish somehow, but I suppose this one works better with the ambiance. I guess since the airlock was set to automatic, the alien could have just waltzed in, but that seems really dumb. It doesn't seem quite plausible, given that Verlaine is talking to you the whole time.

I'm curious as to how the alien somehow got on the Torres, though. Ofc, it could just be crossing wires between gameplay and narrative details. Not sure how many threads will be hit in a sequel (Weyland Yutani acting like a giant dumbass), but the main is probably Amanda having the same 'could be infected' angle from her temporary blackout as New did, as the aliens in that one section leave her alone, and only resume the 'chase' once she's still trying to leave the station. Some awesome homages from both films (that nest scene was amazing), and also some hilarious glitches, like my hands being on fire for the rest of a chapter, including EVA suit time.

#Alien isolation anesidora cut scene trial

It was definitely a fun experience, but there's a lot of trial and error, stupid backtracking (including back and forth between the entire series of rooms twice), and the alien detecting you in closets/cabinets seems kind of arbitrary at times. Powered through it, not quite sure what to think.