The player’s logic versus the game’s - a frustrating, but unwinnable fight. Unfortunately, this means the options available to you don’t reflect what you really know, creating this inescapable dissonance that ruins future puzzles and story beats. With its writing unable to hide its twists, you’ll quickly decipher its clues far quicker than the game expects you to. SIMULACRA 2’s biggest weakness is one that it shares with many of its contemporaries in the detective game subgenre. The same could potentially be said for the acting performances, though some good FMV action is always a treat. Vital information is delivered early on, but the conversations drag on for ungodly lengths of time. Understandably, much of the dialogue was shaped with concern for the presentation of puzzles, but the heavy-handed delivery and lack of nuance is jarring to say the least. The texting is remarkably unnatural - stiff being a complete understatement. The story, in all honesty, is predictable and clichéd despite the odd pocket of solid writing. SIMULACRA 2 is a genuinely frightening 4 hours I don’t know what’s more terrifying than a ghost more concerned with showing me dead people than letting me peruse my feed. But as paranormal events begin disturbing your search, taking control of and corrupting the phone, more questions open up, requiring even more evidence. You’ll use that evidence to use against Maya’s influencer friends in hopes of coaxing one of them into a confession. Recovering deleted chat threads, emails, and media - tracked by your WARDEN app - is at the crux of progression. A hints tab is always available to remind you of your objectives, and to narrow down your search to something a tad more manageable if you so wish. The game deserves praise for its fairly solid pacing, which never overwhelms the player with huge influxes of information or objectives to chase after. By nature, and in line with millennial tradition, each one has you hopping from one app back to another, multi-tasking your heart out to solve the mystery. Puzzles have you digging through old emails and viewing social media posts until enough evidence has been acquired to progress.
WHAT IS SIMULACRA 2 FULL
Interspersed between the texting and scrolling are full motion videos and voice-acted soundbites players will have to dig through Her Story-style. Artificial load times and familiar internet culture tropes help sell the setting - akin to last year’s phenomenal Hypnospace Outlaw. SIMULACRA 2’s UI borrows entirely from standardized phone UIs, and as such, tech-savvy/app-savvy players will feel right at home swiping and typing. The game first made its appearance on mobile - quite frankly its rightful home.
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