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I finally got back to Dead Space 2 today and played through chapter 6. Last time, I was thinking about how I mostly seemed to find ammo for the weapons I was currently carrying and wondered if I could just reduce my inventory to my two best weapons and use those all the time. I decided to try it out and it seems to work, which translated into things going a lot better for me. While before I was spending most of my money on healing items because I would take a lot of damage when I had to go into one of the more packed areas with the plasma or rivet guns, with this strategy I had a high point where I was carrying 13 health packs and used some while at full health to free inventory space. I could also sell the starting plasma gun and all my other ammo and ended up buying four power nodes with all the money I saved, which allowed me to max out my pulse rifle's damage stat.

I think I'm playing with some kind of DLC bonus and didn't realize. The flamethrower I got at the start of the game for 0 credits is called the "bloody flamethrower" but seems to be completely identical to the normal "flamethrower" that you have to find the schematic for in chapter 6 and buy for 11,000. It did seem odd to me when the game dumped so many weapon options on me right at the start.

The most memorable part of this chapter is the spooky school area, where they introduce the baby enemies, which are basically banelings from Starcraft. There's a little cutscene where a woman coaxes her mutated baby into coming over to her only to get exploded, which I saw coming, but it also reminded me of the classic anime Elfen Lied so that was nice. For Isaac, though, these enemies are not very threatening, which was probably part of the reason I started getting a lot of supplies. Isaac also makes a new friend in this chapter named Ellie. At first he sees her standing in a cage killing lots of necromorphs, and she's very distrustful, but they meet up shortly afterward and she agrees to work with him. She's also traveling with Isaac's buddy Stross. It was a nice change of pace to meet an NPC in person who didn't immediately die. The Earthgov guy who commands Titan station also turns up for a second to taunt Isaac and friends.

I only played the first few minutes of chapter 7, but that difficulty spike might already have appeared in the form of one very troublesome enemy that takes up most of a wall and spawns other enemies. It took me a lot of health and ammo just to deal with one of those guys. You have to target specific weak points and it can 1-shot you if you get to close. The flamethrower seems pretty useless against it, so it might expose a weakness of my two-weapon strategy.

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