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Alright, started up Dead Space 2. I only played for a little under an hour tonight, just enough to get to the start of "Chapter 2." I'm playing on Normal.

After surviving the events of the first game, Isaac Clarke has apparently spent the past three years locked in some kind of human rights disrespecting insane asylum as a test subject for experiments on the alien artifact he was exposed to. He's still having nightmares about his girlfriend from the first game, but he can't make much sense of them because he has partial amnesia due to the drugs that were used on him. A support character talks to him over the phone and tells him that he's got terminal dementia as a result of all this, but she can cure him if he makes it to her. Meanwhile, the space station he's on has gone to hell and is overrun with Necromorphs. Guy can't catch a break!

I'd say the game is a bit on the silly side. The horror does lack a certain subtlety, since it's really just screaming monsters running at you all day long. It reminds me more than a little bit of Resident Evil 4, with the over-the-shoulder third person shooting, but I think that game's goofiness was a little more intentional. I wouldn't call the game scary, but the very beginning where you're running around in a straightjacket with Necromorphs everywhere is at least tense. Maybe I should've played on a higher difficulty, because the enemies aren't too threatening so far. It seems like you can even punch a lot of them to death without taking damage. There's a boss fight at the end of chapter 1, right after you find your first shop and gear up, but he only hit me once or twice. You get the power to slow down enemies which can also be used for certain puzzles, and there's a physics weapon kind of like the gravity gun from Half-Life 2. In combat, it seems like there's an emphasis on shooting the enemies in lots of different places to blow limbs off. That's kind of fun. If not scary, it seems like the game might at least be fun so far.

I was surprised by just how many options they give you for weapons and armor when you make it to the very first store. It was kind of overwhelming. I just picked a suit of armor at random. I think it was the "earthgov" armor. For weapons, I picked the rivet gun, a flamethrower, the short-ranged buzzsaw weapon, and the plasma gun you get earlier, since most of the ammo I find is for that one. I figure I'll just try them out for a little while and then swap to some others to give those a shot.

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I'm playing every game from GotD 2020! Games Completed: 15/129
Currently Playing: Dead Space 2