As in the developer’s earlier titles, you have no way to defend yourself from these foes, making flight or hiding your only recourse. A variety of lumbering robots and corrupted creatures cross the line between living and dead in this watery cemetery. This all provides you with clues that something is defiantly wrong, but the details are only filled in as you explore and discover.Įnemies also play on this uncertainty. Is he really there, is Simon Simon, and what does it mean to be human? Reality continuously shifts around you to match your needs, including one occasion when you grow scuba gear on demand. During the course of its tale the action regularly switches between the restrictive interior and watery exterior of various structures altering the pace of play and the threats you must face.ĭuring your journey through the world, you also begin to question Simon's existence. It is a setting that gives Frictional Games more room to experiment and explore. If that isn’t bad enough, all is not well in the deserted base which is dark and filled with of organic machinery. This story is a mix of mystery and horror as, during a brain scan in the present day, Simon is transported to a confined-futuristic facility deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean.
The world is also more dense and alive with believable details than the generic - but well realized - Lovecraftian-gothic style of their previous games.
Simon has a far better idea of who he is than the characters in the company’s previous titles. But while it controls similarly to Amnesia, it is clear Frictional Games’s focus in SOMA has been its storytelling, and here it excels.
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