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Gameplay is fun but the story is literally just every possible cliché. The amount of times the characters directly reference the concept of survival is astounding, and only the returning characters really have much going for them. Also a ton of the stuff you climb on will break just for drama and not actually affect your traversal. Overall a fun game but it would be better if you weren't having the plot continuously smack you and remind you of what it's trying to say. Update: I am now finishing the game out of spite, the level design is atrocious and this idea they push about exploration is bs, this game only lets you do the very specific things it intends. The amount of times you go through difficult movement and combat just to get an upgrade that lets you progress from where you started in the level. These meaningless trials just get more tedious as the game goes on, and the rewards are just things that give you access to collectibles you have to backtrack through a difficult to navigate map. Also the whole romance subplot is not only unnecessary, but it's annoying. Cal has absolutely no chemistry with marren and it seems shoehorned in at the last minute to add some sort of emotional stakes to a meandering story that I just want to be done. Even if this game didn't have a myriad of serious technical issues it would at best be mediocre.

I really don't understand all the people calling this a horror masterpiece, it like we watched a completely different film. Nosferatu is not scary, you don't have enough connection to any of the characters to care if they live or die. You barely see any of them express even the smallest sign of personality other than their reactions to stress. Sure there's blood and violence, but without a compelling context it's just stuff that happens. The pacing was atrocious, you spend the entire first half of the film watching disjointed scenes that communicate some helpful exposition, but give you no sense of how much time is passing. Lily Rose Depp did a great job considering her character wasn't really a fleshed out person, although none of the characters were really at all. Visually it was nice, but just nice. It's not like a Dario Argento film where I could watch it just for the visuals. I don't get the rave reviews, this film doesn't really inspire any sort of reaction from me other than the occasional light chuckle because I knew a death was coming. TLDR: it's not scary and none of what happens means anything because it doesn't happen to anyone you really care about. Also the mustache on Oorlock made him silly.