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the amount of kino this game is utterly soaked in is dangerous. they recommend only applying 2 drops of it per 32 oz of water you're treating with it. personally i say take 8 straight into your eyeballs, like a crackhead psychonaut dropping blotter acid. ♥♥♥♥ What They Say. ***buy this gotdamn game immediately without hesitation***

installed this game and idled the login screen to leave this negative review. this game ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks man

EAT ♥♥♥♥ SONY. ♥♥♥♥ OFF YOUR CONSOLE HAS NO GAMES

i bought this game 11 years ago when i was 12 with a steam giftcard and legitimately only started playing it recently. greatest investment a clueless child has probably ever made ever

they did the new common game industry thing where they finish the game years after launch, but with that being said it is actually fun now and not godawful???? id say its an easy buy for $5-$10, just make sure to remind EA they'd have saved a lot of trouble just having the game finished on launch

i can guarantee someone has gotten away with playing this while on shift at an office job. 10/10 i picked up it on the winter sale and never looked back, hooked instantaneously

stopped playing this game awhile back but anyway i hope bungie gets liquidated by sony at this point, just put it down already, its over

incase you're wondering like i did: you can quite infact play as travis touchdown of no more heroes fame if you really seek it out. 10/10

the most hypercondensed amount of soul i have ever bore witness to. legitimately brought back the same feelings of childhood wonder i had when my computer was an old acer laptop that ran games at 18 fps and i was watching gmod machinimas and roblox gone crazy. which makes the final archival project arc and ending hit even harder. i choked back tears.

this game will cure you of your irony poisoning, you will be incapable of hiding behind the veil of Just Joking Bro and "it is what it is" masking, and that's a good thing

$50 bet this game will have a 4 hour long video essay or whatever the ♥♥♥♥ by the likes of pyrocynical or whatever youtuber does those things in the future. mark my words. this game is too substantial for that to not happen

THE GOOD -
gameplay loop and gunplay is orgasmic. lived up to the hype it promised in most respects. has some interesting story bits, i.e the biocomputer haunting the blacksite in the arkansas mission, the flesh people on the second mission, the "memorial hall" for the sacrificed people (and upon looking up birthdates, realizing some of the people who were sacrificed where children was unnerving), and the final mission with anton and his doctor sawing up the smartest people still working at his company last minute in an attempt to upload himself to their brains was something else

THE BAD -
this game has a massive identity crisis. it felt like it wanted to be Every Evil Corporation horror trope at once, and the whole backrooms level was.. well, it's already aged as of writing this review.

the break the cycle motif throughout the game felt like it was building up to something interesting but it ended pretty abruptly. some things felt shoehorned and forced.

i spent the whole game wondering why i should care about the syndicate, and the whole attempt at making you like the helicopter pilot and gunnery just didn't land for me. i feel like this was sort of the intended line of thinking for the player given the ending, but for me it was less intrigue into why the syndicate cares about me so much and more apathy. "why should i care?"

it's a game! it's fun! but the writing felt like 4 dudes got high after watching alien, robocop and played fear and said "what if we did this bro??"

don't get me wrong, i'm not ragging on that concept, honestly it could have worked if the game wasn't as short as it is. every side mission felt like i should have been it's own chapter. if this game had a blank check and more time to develop i'm sure that'd have been the case. i'd have *loved* to get more into the haunted biocomputer story going on. I opened the door to that room and was frozen in the doorplace and didn't even want to step in. but that's not what we got.


THE REST OF MY TANGENT -
honestly? i didn't expect a long, drawn out game. it's an indie, i tempered my expectations to begin with and i cant say i was disappointed, but there's a lot that i wish this game could have been.

calling it a FEAR spiritual successor? nah, it's is own thing. Selaco feels more deserving of that title. This is like margarine while FEAR is butter. not bad, but you can't believe it's not butter, or maybe you can.

I still recommend it, It's fun, you'll enjoy it, and in an environment with games like redfall and that gollum well, whatever it is, Fun is Enough. But if you play FEAR first or have played FEAR prior to Trepang2, you will notice the deficits in story between the two.

TL:DR-
game good, story kinda mid, lives up to expectations given there wasn't high ones to begin with, worth buying and playing