alright, for those considering purchasing this game, heres my first hour with the game. Spoilers ahead for the first little bit but chances are it won't matter. I swear I'm not as bad at video games I'm describing. Anyways here we go. Sequences might be out of sequence a little bit cause my mind tries not to remember the bad. Also if I am doing something wrong please tell me, I don't want to shelve this game yet.
Anyways the game opens with your character knocked out and mysterious men with an old dude talking about some super conspiracy involving a stone. This is when you're introduced to the blink button in first person view. Yes, every few seconds in first person you have to click the right stick to blink or your vision gets blurry. It took a few minutes to get my head around that. Anyways I'm on my own after something happens to the dude guarding me so now I get to explore. I get to the catwalks outside of the elevator shaft (I think) getting used to how slooow my guy moves and how close the camera is to him. So I'm walking on this thin beam and then boom, out of nowhere the camera changes to an old school Resident Evil view, switching my control directions with it and woosh off this beam I go to my death. Smarter for it I correctly predict the camera change and get passed that part, continue walking on the beam, boom camera back to third person and off the beam I go. ****! ok third times a charm I finally get to some cable and start to climb down. I don't notice (well I did but didn't care) an electric field and shocked to my death. Ok puzzle time, I'm supposed to move the electrified cable to the left side behind this block to cut off the flow. Except the cord glitches through my dude and I can't get it on the left side because its stuck on my right. Suicide and try again, success. Now I'm on the elevator containing the dudes from the beginning and the old dude. They're talking about the stone again, I have no idea whats going on. Walking through the building I get a fire extinguisher and figure out that the Right trigger sprays. Ok thats good...except now I'm stuck in first person view with the hose out. Took me a minute to figure out Y switches you back. Anyways I'm in a room later on when the walls start to collapse. I die somehow. I'm not sure what killed me but I assume the debris hit me. Try again, this time I don't die despite doing nothing different and end up outside climbing on the building. At this point I have no idea where I'm supposed to go. You see theres a problem. Theres a set path you're supposed to use, except visually its not different than the pieces of building behind invisible walls. Considering you have to jump from piece to piece I had quite a few deaths thinking I could land on that extended walkway, but no, I had to jump on the exact same walkway on the other side without the wall. Making my way UP *great escape plan* a car explodes from the ground and comes up and HITS ME and kills me, are you serious? None of the other debris that has been falling constantly chugging the framerate did anything, but this one carframe instant death :/ ok I get inside and fight that boss from the video everyone is laughing at. After smacking her with a lamp until the game prompts me to use fire, I get a chair and set it on fire and go to her body.....except its seizuring in a glitch and I can't hit it. *sigh* I pick up the lamp and unstick her and then finally kill her. Ok, now I'm with some girl who is constantly companing about the little bugs at the bottom of an elevator. I have a flashlight now which you turn off and on with A button. Except when you pick up another object the A button won't cut off the flashlight anymore. Even when you drop the object and you only have the flashlight in your hand again, A button doesn't switch it on and off anymore. You have to open your jacket to manually cut it off and then back on to gain the use of the A button shutoff. I'm trying to kill these bug things, except any weapon you use tends to swing OVER them and you can't hit them. I don't know if theres some secret way to swing the weapons to the floor to hit enemies that are really short or if its random. Anyways I kill them and get to the car garage after using the old "bloody fingers" on the buttons puzzle I meet up with the old man who's escaped somehow. I get to a car in which I have to hotwire. Except it doesn't give a tutorial on HOW to do it, meanwhile more enemies (I've been shooting them with FIRE BULLETS so they've been easy to kill so I haven't mentioned them til now, theres only been like 2 or 3) yank you out of your car if you take too long to match the wires. To get up after you get yanked out you need to jam the A button....except MY guy this time is stuck in the weird seizure animation but he breaks out of it after about 20 seconds. I get the car hotwired and start driving when the floor collapses and I glitch in the rubble for a second before I'm teleported outside of it. The lady is now yelling at me to get back up there cause thats where the exit is. No arrows on HOW to get back up there but I eventually figure it out and drive through some fire which I was supposed to do and crash my car. Now the old dude is hurt and I have to find another car. I get to a fence covered in wood. Ah ha! I know what to do here, I grab something flammable, set it on fire and burn the wood covering the fence opening. This triggers a cutscene of the unseen thing in the floor coming towards me. The screen goes black for a few seconds and then I'm dead. I have no idea what has just happened. I save and cut off the game in frustration.
There you go, sounds like a winner.