Really good video and thank you for not making over half the video talking about the graphics. That people can clearly see with their eyes. That one of my biggest gripes about reviews. They spend so long on the graphics. Not pointing out important details like you did. That info about enemies, map detail and weapons was pretty useful.
I really enjoyed your video. Lots of attention to detail with thorough explanations and lots of relevant gameplay footage to what you were describing, gave me a much clearer idea of what was being covered, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wanted to learn more about the game before buying. On the constructive criticism front, two points. Your editing was mostly solid, which made a few of the later audio transitions stand out as being a little rough as it went from silent to background buzz while you started speaking. In a worse video I'd never have mentioned it, but because the rest of your production was generally so nice it really stood out to me. Secondly, and more relevantly, your 'Gameplay' section had a great amount of detail in the various components of the game but didn't go into much detail as to how those components fitted together. How the game is structured and designed. From watching the EFAP stream it was quite clear how regular that pattern of ammo crates/health packs/etc. was in each main encounter area, how the game was spawning minor enemies as players lingered between those areas, stuff like that. Given how well you broke down and explained other aspects of the game it would have been good to hear your take on that too. On the Prowlers, after our discussion in the EFAP chat it was rather funny watching the clip at the end of the 'The Setting' section, where you'd clearly heard the breathing noise and were checking the corner fairly carefully but still got caught out! :) That did prove your point that they could be anticipated though, so fair enough there. You did use the word 'attentive' twice in relation to catching the breathing, so I think my point about it maybe not being well designed for a game heavily encouraging online multi-player chitchat stands. In the context of the game's other issues it's a minor complaint, and one that likely wouldn't have gone on so long aside from the 200 character limit in TH-cam live-stream chats. There are many online co-op games that implement similar enemies, and I'm not aware of any of them where it's considered a fun encounter, so it's certainly not an issue unique to this game. Possibly I just found it more jarring because of the Aliens context, where any human caught by a xenomorph like that should be 100% dead. While a lot of the gameplay design felt rather generic and rushed I was really impressed with a lot of the work that went into this game, especially on the visual side, and here's hoping the game does well enough that Cold Iron get to work on a more expansive project in the future.
18:00 this reminds me a bit of the upgrade module system for armor, moves, companions and weapons in warframe except done alot better than with how warframe did it.
57:40 this is a really good point, darksouls/pretty much all the souls games do this exact same thing. I'm sure there are other games that do it as well but those are the first that come to mind. Never bugged me then bit it was jarring to see the occasional special character like Andre the blacksmith
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Really good video and thank you for not making over half the video talking about the graphics. That people can clearly see with their eyes. That one of my biggest gripes about reviews. They spend so long on the graphics. Not pointing out important details like you did. That info about enemies, map detail and weapons was pretty useful.
I really enjoyed your video. Lots of attention to detail with thorough explanations and lots of relevant gameplay footage to what you were describing, gave me a much clearer idea of what was being covered, and I'd recommend it to anyone who wanted to learn more about the game before buying.
On the constructive criticism front, two points. Your editing was mostly solid, which made a few of the later audio transitions stand out as being a little rough as it went from silent to background buzz while you started speaking. In a worse video I'd never have mentioned it, but because the rest of your production was generally so nice it really stood out to me.
Secondly, and more relevantly, your 'Gameplay' section had a great amount of detail in the various components of the game but didn't go into much detail as to how those components fitted together. How the game is structured and designed. From watching the EFAP stream it was quite clear how regular that pattern of ammo crates/health packs/etc. was in each main encounter area, how the game was spawning minor enemies as players lingered between those areas, stuff like that. Given how well you broke down and explained other aspects of the game it would have been good to hear your take on that too.
On the Prowlers, after our discussion in the EFAP chat it was rather funny watching the clip at the end of the 'The Setting' section, where you'd clearly heard the breathing noise and were checking the corner fairly carefully but still got caught out! :) That did prove your point that they could be anticipated though, so fair enough there. You did use the word 'attentive' twice in relation to catching the breathing, so I think my point about it maybe not being well designed for a game heavily encouraging online multi-player chitchat stands.
In the context of the game's other issues it's a minor complaint, and one that likely wouldn't have gone on so long aside from the 200 character limit in TH-cam live-stream chats. There are many online co-op games that implement similar enemies, and I'm not aware of any of them where it's considered a fun encounter, so it's certainly not an issue unique to this game. Possibly I just found it more jarring because of the Aliens context, where any human caught by a xenomorph like that should be 100% dead.
While a lot of the gameplay design felt rather generic and rushed I was really impressed with a lot of the work that went into this game, especially on the visual side, and here's hoping the game does well enough that Cold Iron get to work on a more expansive project in the future.
ahhehe I did enjoy using the flamthrower
18:00 this reminds me a bit of the upgrade module system for armor, moves, companions and weapons in warframe except done alot better than with how warframe did it.
31:35 😭😭😭 jk kidding great review man.
Underrated Vid and channel.
I like how they aren’t just pretending that Prometheus and Covenant didn’t happen, those movies had a few good ideas.
57:40 this is a really good point, darksouls/pretty much all the souls games do this exact same thing. I'm sure there are other games that do it as well but those are the first that come to mind. Never bugged me then bit it was jarring to see the occasional special character like Andre the blacksmith
Overall this was a good video but some parts could be a bit more focused and the bit with the aliens commentary while interesting felt a bit random
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