i adore the ending

for a game that at a glance seems so simple in every regard, there's an absurd amount of depth

a great, faithful remaster in every regard. new content and QoL improvements are toggleable, which is a neat thing for those who want original experience with fresh visuals (why would anybody want that?)

for me, the new stuff was very welcome, i think it only made the game better.

i got bored of it 150 hours ago and still played for 150 hours more

imagine portal 3

don't be fooled by my playing time, i finished the game with KeeperFX community mod and so should you!

it's all QoL stuff for nicer and smoother experience

team cherry spent 7 years studying primal aspid's design to make enemies for this game

pretty good and enjoyable. overall solid, no surprise it made a good impression on me like what... 20 years ago???

Play original permieter instead. Maybe play the remaster, idk i haven't tried that.

I'd say this would've been a fine expansion if it didn't cut content that was in the first game, as there is no Harkback faction in this game due to addition of new lab and units. Scourge is underutilized in the campaign, could say it's entirely cut from the game too.

But as it stands, it's pretty bad.

Story: it derails into a random mess that makes little sense very fast. It feels too detached from the original story, even if it supposedly expands on events post Perimeter 1. There's too many things that just appear out of the blue and you don't really get any proper set up or explaination of it. Also those are things you would've heard about in the first game if they actually were inteded and not made up on the spot in this expansion

Campaign design: also super lacking, most missions feel short and trivial. Imagine any campaign level from the original game and instead of having an engaging multi-objective level, the level abruptly ends after you complete the first task. The rest of the missions are annoyingly unfavourable to you, where if the AI wasn't so dumb you'd not have even the smallest chance of winning, so your best bet is to nearly cheese the AI.

Writing and voiceover: both come off very amateur. Which would've been fine if the original game also had that issue. I dunno, I don't need to be reminded that "spirits are the archnemesises of the mechanical messiah" every other mission. Yes please, spell it out again for me, i really didn't catch that first 20 times you mentioned that thank you yessssssss talk about yourself in the third person and remind me that you are ThE mEcHaNiCaL mEsSiAh yes do that please yes yes yes.

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