I found freely navigating through the Ishimura kind of cumbersome and confusing. I'm glad it's there but I personally didn't find that it enhanced my experience. Mainly the added security doors, side quests, and ability to explore the entire Ishimura. There are a couple things that bothered me and are basically specific to the remake. The atmosphere is some of the best in the genre. I can't get over how good the lighting is in the remake. I don't think I absolutely love it, but it's still a great game. It's as good as I remember but prettier and controls better. I don’t remember much from Dead Space 2 besides liking the game more than the first and it being possibly more linear.įinally beat the game after about 17 hours because I'm a slowpoke. If they could do something like that in a Dead Space 2 remake it would be incredible. I appreciate the freedom to explore the Ishimura but it’s not that great to me because it’s not the kind of puzzle filled labyrinth that the Spencer Mansion or RPD is in Resident Evil. If they do remake Dead Space 2, it’d be nice if it got a complete overhaul. Love shooting these guys and I had a blast with some gun combos like the Force Gun’s gravity well into flamethrower’s fire wall, into just grinding people up with the Ripper as they’re stuck burning. It’s so painfully not scary despite the incredible atmosphere. Lastly, just a nitpick but I thought it was more funny than anything how often the game tried to scare me with jump scares. I get that you can buy ammo but I’d rather just have the ammo straight up. So many lockers and crates with 100 credits or some other junk. The game also gives you too many credits when I would’ve preferred ammo. I also don’t like it as I’m replaying the game. What’s up with that? I didn’t die too many times but when I did, I didn’t like having to watch a cutscene. It messed up the pacing for me but some of that was my fault for missing stuff the first time around. I’m glad it’s there but I personally didn’t find that it enhanced my experience.

I can’t get over how good the lighting is in the remake. I don’t think I absolutely love it, but it’s still a great game. It’s as good as I remember but prettier and controls better. Finally beat the game after about 17 hours because I’m a slowpoke.

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