Thankfully even with that one driving factor taken out of the equation, the overarching story was still compelling enough to keep me engaged.Īdditionally, Observer System Redux emphasizes the importance of synchronization between Adam and his equipment/ mental state. Once you realize how non-threatening the scares are, the mental glass shatters, and the game immediately becomes much less scary. If the AI actually responded much better to my presence, this game would be much scarier than it ended up actually being. I was almost right behind the big threatening creature crouch walking and was never once killed. As long as you’re crouched, you are perfectly safe. Even more so, as mentioned before, there ARE stealth parts… but my god is the AI bad. You just had to run straight until it was over. There were no corners to turn, no obstacles to jump over. Then when I actually ran away, it set the expectation that I would make it out OK as long as I ran. Except here, when there was a chase sequence, I thought it was supposed to be a jump scare that ruined the fear.
It puts me so on edge I can’t help but close the game and calm down. Chasing and stalking around bad guys with no way to fight back is the main scenario that makes me avoid scary games. I couldn’t find any particular reason for their existence. Not only does it let you explore more of the creepy building but give you an idea of just how messed up this type of dystopian future can be.Īt other particular segments, there is a manifestation of a giant monster ready to wreak havoc while it’s looking for something.
These side cases are optional, but I HIGHLY recommend doing them. Several apartments are open to be explored that serve as side-cases that are equally, if not more creepy than the main case you slowly solve during the four to 5-hour play-time. Additionally, the custodian and his robot assistant are slowly malfunctioning and tend to wander around the building. All of this is enhanced by the eerie sounds of the locked-in residents slowly going crazy as their forced stay grows longer and longer. The hallways quickly change and affect your view with the use of holograms. Apartments you explore look dilapidated and covered in blood. A father looking for his lost son in an inhabited near-derelict building where, of course, a killer is on the loose during a lockdown. This is the setting you’re exploring during this psychological horror. This also tends to cause instability between the Observer and their technology. However, drug use and death tend to not be safe for Observers who are then subjected to mind-bending scenarios of that person’s life.
Observers are the only ones allowed to hack into people to see memories that led to whatever crime they observed. Additionally, a new police unit known as the Observers was formed to help with crime in this technology-based future.
Additionally, each apartment can be locked down remotely in case there is a Nanophage breakout. These are almost like modern-day apartment buildings but are so poorly maintained they are breaking down at the seams and held together by shoddy patchwork. Rampant drug users, hologram addicts, and others were classified as Class C and were relegated to tenement buildings. Eventually, people were divided by class. Poland was decimated, leading to their being controlled by a megacorporation called Chiron. This virus, almost like a normal computer virus today on steroids, ravaged not only through technology but anyone who was connected to the network through their cybernetic enhancements. In the year 2084, during a cyberpunk future, the world was ravaged by a digital plague called the Nanophage. Observer System Redux is about Adam Lazarski looking for clues about why his estranged son, Adam, called him from a Class C tenement building.
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