A good game with flaws for a specific gamer in mind.

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I had been keeping an eye on this game for a while because I’ve got a thing for WW1 settings, and when I saw it on sale, I decided to give it a try.

Well, this is one of the existing games ever, I would say. I enjoyed the combat, the story was good, and the QoL features were nice, however one of the main activities in this game is basically just... running... from one side to the other.

I love exploring every bit of game's content and map in one go, and I must admit it was boring in Conscript.

Dream sequences don't give you clear indication when it's time to move on. You don't get much activies in trenches or battlefields after initially exploring them, leaving you with the task of running marathon around. Inventory management system makes it harder too, I understand if you need storage for grenades or machine gun, but key items like... keys take the same inventory slot. And in early game you don't have much storage in your bags.

Later I learned that the game was inspired by older Resident Evil games in which there is similar backtracking and storage management experience. I didn't play it, I'm not feeling this kind of gameplay.

While the game has it flaws, it still packs good experience in more action-ish parts of the game, and I admire the overall work put into the game.

I really wanted to like this. Taking the horrors of modern warfare and making it into a literal survival horror game is brilliant, and I genuinely appreciate Conscript as a piece of art.

Unfortunately, as a game the combat is extremely unenjoyable, and because it's a war story combat is the overwhelming majority of the experience. I was able to tolerate Signalis, which has a similarly clunky combat system, but Conscript has far too much randomness in the accuracy of your attacks even if you pause to aim appropriately.

i just found it so boriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing