Visually, the upgrade makes as much use of the hardware as it can. The real question, of course, is do you really need a 4-year-old game on your flashy new system? That answer is a little more complicated than whether or not Observer: System Redux still holds up as a quality game. In this, the only protection is pushing on, so believe me when I tell you that my fight or flight instinct kicked in a number of times and the struggle to stay focused while my whole body was racked with chills and goose bumps was a task in and of itself. In other games, I would panic shoot, hoping for the protection of my weapon against the incoming horrors. Everything from haunting visuals, rapidly changing environments, and some exquisite use of sound was deeply terrifying. The thing that makes game play stand out to me is that you are unarmed, using your detective skills and implants to sort through crime scenes and evidence while you’re completely at the mercy of the killer and the monsters in people’s minds. I’m not talking about it being jump scary either. What is reality and what is memory becomes inexorably intertwined and getting to the bottom of the mystery becomes a lesson in maintaining your sanity as well. Like in a dream, the memories and the truth are hidden behind some absolutely bonkers visuals and the dreamscape is most often full of horrors you must navigate, piecing the truth together for yourself as much as Lazarski is. Where Observer: System Redux works best is in the absolutely horrifying dream sequences when we hack implants and enter people’s minds.
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