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The Sinking City 2 Impressions — Is This Really 'Resident Evil Meets Cthulhu'?
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Next up on Jason's video game source, we
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got impressions video for the Sinking
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City part two. Now, I've played Sinking
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City uh one. Believe it came out 2019.
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Uh Sinking City 2 is developed and
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published by Frogwares. A funny story
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about me playing Sinkin City 2. By the
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way, I think there's 71 gameplay video
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videos that I made of the sinking city
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part one, which I thought was pretty
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janky, you know,
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basically just to not mess around with
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your time. The Seeking City 2's is much
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better. I'll get into why, but the
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Seeking City one, yeah, a lot of
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gameplay elements, uh, you know,
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progressing through chapters, you have
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to solve, you know, basically do
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Sherlock Holmes style gameplay, solving
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investigations, you know, and and and
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like gathering clues and stuff. Seek
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City 2, that's a option because Sean
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City 2 to me is much more akin to uh
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survival horror third person, you know,
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survival horror, res recent Resident
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Evil's recent uh
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uh the the evil within uh Kronos the new
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dawn uh recently um 2024 is Alone in the
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Dark, right? So that's what the Sinka
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City, you know, it's not as good as like
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the Resident Evil games, but I think
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it's up there with Kronos New Dawn is
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better than game than um Alone in the
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Dark 2024 in my opinion. So it came out
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August 18th for current gen systems
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minus the Switch 2, I believe. So Xbox
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Series X, uh the PS5, and the PC. Uh so
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yeah, it's good. And the reason why I
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like I I'm enjoying it, I'm about
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halfway through. I think I'm in the
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hospital the midway through the hospital
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which is a very long tenuous uh level.
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Uh so about I'm about halfway through it
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and I made about uh I don't know maybe
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70 gameplay videos of it. Uh you play as
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um Calvin Rafferty and basically the
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story goes that
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by performing some uh what's it called?
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A dream I wrote some notes down here.
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the Dreamlands ritual with your wife uh
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FA Bennett. She ends up in a coma to mo
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m much of the half of the first first,
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you know, part of the game or the first
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two chapters, I think there's seven
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seven chapters all in I think uh is that
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she's in a comos. You got to get her
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out. And uh at this point in the game
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where I'm at, you're basically, you
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know, trying to get her body back cuz
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you end up doing a ritual that gets her
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back. But then a slither which is like
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the the main forces of the the enemies
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in this game are called slithers. And by
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the way this is um a love crafting game
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by the way. So it takes place in the
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1920s in a f
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fix fictitious
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uh New England. I think it's called
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Arkham. the city is is uh drowned in
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water and there's these creatures
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popping up everywhere and there's
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cultists and there's portals and there's
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these big tentacle monsters. So, you
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know, if you read a Love Lovecraft HP
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Lovecraft book, it has a lot of that uh
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influence in it. So, basically, you're
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trying to get uh Fay Bennett's body back
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at the point where I'm at in the game
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story-wise. So, the story is okay. The
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writing's okay. It's nothing special.
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Okay, it's nothing special. What's
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special to me about The Secret City 2 is
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the gameplay. The game play uh is solid.
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It's uh the presentation is that very
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much over Resident Evil where there's
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safe rooms. You know, you gather you
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solve puzzles in game. You know, you
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could choose to do the Sherlock Holmes
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style investigation uh clue sequences
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and stuff, but uh pro tip, you do have
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to like read some notes to solve combin
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combination locks, unless you just cheat
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and use AI, right? Uh but it's simple
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math. Those are the extent of the
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puzzles in this game. So you read, you
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know, the the notes that you get the the
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they're called evidence and you read
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those and you can solve puzzles pretty
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easily in this game by doing simple math
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and uh you know looking at symbols and
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stuff like that. Very Resident Evil,
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very uh the evil within.
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So what else we got here? So yeah, a lot
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of it has to do or at least early on you
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have to like go through these floodgates
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which are like check like checkpoints uh
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throughout uh Arkham, you know, there's
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uh the silver eel, there's a fire
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station, there's a library, there's a
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church. Uh now I got to the point where
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I'm at a hospital, which is seems like
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the biggest level so far. Uh weapons so
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far. I got shotguns. I got a Tommy gun,
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like a SMG, machine gun. Uh, pistols.
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Uh, and you can unlock these special
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crates. I forgot what they're called.
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ERC or some ER, I don't know. And you
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can lock these special crates for like
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compensators, you know, to modify and
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make the weapons more powerful and
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stuff.
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Uh, what I like about so far, the loop
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is pretty solid. Uh, you know, this is a
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game um that if you're playing in the
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hardest difficulty, you will you will
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die and you will run out of ammo. So,
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you got to like pick your fights.
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Sometimes you're going to have to like
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shoot the slithers which are, you know,
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they're humanoid. There's these little
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bipedal or I don't know, quadriped
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quadriped little stalkers that jump at
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you. There's bigger, you know, more
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intimidating uh um looking slithers and
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stuff and you know, with the heads
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coming out and they look like things
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from Dead Space and pretty typical, you
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know, survival horror games. Uh Kronos
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of New Dawn. I don't know if you play
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that, but in that game they have uh
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these organisms that can revive
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humans that are dead and stuff. They in
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uh the secret city too, they have these
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little worms, these little slither worms
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that can revive corpses and stuff. So,
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you got to make sure you stomp them out,
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which you can't do. You can melee punch.
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You can also stomp out um these worms so
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they don't infect and revive enemies or
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you're going to run out of ammo. So, my
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gist of this game is that it really is a
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survival horror game and it feels good.
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The Seeking City one felt very janky.
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This has a tad bit of Jake, but like I
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said, if you could play a game like
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Kronos and New Dawn or the 2024 Alone in
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the Dark, this is right there with it as
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far as how it feels in, you know, the
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the gameplay elements. Shooting. Uh
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dodging is really important to you. Do a
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lot of dodges cuz this game has a
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tendency to swarm you with slithers that
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uh could kill you pretty fast. If you're
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just playing on normal, they can really
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chop down your health. And there is an
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upgrade system with a mask called uh the
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night shade. It's a night it's called
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night shade. It's a mask that you can
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use to upgrade uh uh Calvin Rafferty
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uh so that he has like you know more
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health and different perks and whatnot.
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And he's you know there's three stages
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of that you can add, but you got to
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collect these little uh these co cosmic
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little items scattered around. This game
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has a lot of little puzzles and secrets
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that if you want to like make them real
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powerful and level them up, you're gonna
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have to like solve puzzles. Okay, that's
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just part of it. Uh there's rooms,
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there's keys unlock to unlock and you
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know, the map designs are really good
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and the map designs are are uh
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atmospheric visually. I mean, I'm
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playing this on PlayStation 5, so
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visually it looks okay. There's no PS4
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PS5 enhancement that I know of. So, it's
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just bas basic uh PS5
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So yeah, to me the game, you know, it's
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pretty tough on normal. It's a true
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survival horror game. Like I said, it's
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one of those games where you run into
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the safe room. And by the way, the safe
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rooms are pretty cool in this that has
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this little has some, you know,
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cyberpunk synth music going on. Very
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calming, you know, very very uh, you
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know, h I made it to the safe point.
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very respitesque like uh uh uh Sebastian
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Castellanos in uh The Evil Within where
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you know he would grab a cup of coffee
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at the rest bite. Like this game does
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have that where you know their save
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points are really good and at save
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points you have a you know supply trunk
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where you can swap in and out you know
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uh materials and uh ammo weapons you
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know and you also got the safe station.
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You also got the uh upgrade station at
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the safe points, you know, and they're
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they're plentiful and they're pretty
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easy to find. This game
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in a way it's linear
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uh but you can get lost if you're not
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paying attention to the map. You got to
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really look at the map and stuff. You
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got to read some clues. Other than that,
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it's not that difficult. Um
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so it's fun. I think this game is going
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to be like kind of like Kronos the New
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Dawn where people that play it are
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really going to like it because it's
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that border it's a borderline AAA
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experience as far as survival horror
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it's borderline it's like close to being
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a AAA survival horror game but it is
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it's a double A I'm thinking but I mean
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to me it's you know take away a little
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jank it's a AAA survival horror uh third
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person you know shooter story driven you
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know there are action set piece piece
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peace sequences in this game, too. If
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them falling out of windows, getting
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thrown out of buildings and stuff and
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surviving and
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uh yeah, I'm gonna keep playing it, man.
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I just, you know, I I I want to keep
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playing it, but like today, Mortal Shell
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2 is going to arrive and I got to play
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that u to see what that does. But, uh
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no, The Seek City 2 is really good. I
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think people are going to sleep on it. I
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I hope it does well because it's a it's
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a very very good survival horror game. I
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mean, if you like survival horror games,
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you know, more of the modern survival
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horror games, this is definitely a game
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for you.
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So, I think that's about it. And I
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believe, I'm not, don't quote me on
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this, but I believe it's $49.99 that I
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paid for this game. So, it's not an
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expensive game, but I will say that, you
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know, I think it said I clocked seven
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hours into this game so far and I'm
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midway through the hospital, so there
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might be another six, seven hours left.
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So, it's going to be a 10 plus hour game
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that I'm getting at it and everything.
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And uh yeah, there's a lot of
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investigative items that you can, you
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know, find. There's materials you can
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find. You know, it is a game that you
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should read the notes and stuff. It's
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one of those types because then you will
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understand the puzzles, you understand
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the math to solve the puzzles and get
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through the game unless you want to
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cheat and use a AI. But no, it's it's a
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solid game. The atmosphere is thick. Uh
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the Lovecrafty 1920s uh fictitious uh
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fiction of this New England town that's
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flooded and everything. Uh the game just
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feels and plays much better and it's not
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gated off by investigations, you know,
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like like um the first Sinking City was.
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Sinka City 1 was totally different where
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you talk to a lot of people. They had
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like fish faces and stuff. It had more
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comedy to it. This is like you're more
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alone, but you're also with your wife
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who's like a spirit and she's talking to
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you and stuff. So, the whole
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presentation, you know, is different to
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a certain extent. You don't There are
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NPCs in this, by the way, and there are,
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you know, you got to like help people
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and stuff and all that, but most of the
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time it's more of a surv solo survival
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horror experience. I would say for the
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sinking city too. Uh I'm trying to think
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if that's it. So
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yeah, that's about it. So thank you for
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watching this impressions video of the
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Sinking City 2. And uh make sure you
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So up next is Mortal Shell 2 and then uh
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to die in September and uh it's going to
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be fun though. Uh I'm talking about just
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playing a bunch of games in September.
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