SYMBIOTE PROJECT

Hmm, I’ve played for 10 minutes and have already considered quitting in frustration at least three times. On the ground floor of the school, there’s a marked cabinet containing items, but you can’t reach it because the path is blocked. The obstacle is nothing more than a medical privacy screen, so it really ought to be movable. On the first floor, I fell through the floor multiple times. There’s no way to spot these traps, so you have to keep retracing your steps. After the seventeenth attempt, I finally stood before the final door—only for all 45 defective floor tiles to be revealed automatically. It’s an incredibly annoying and completely unnecessary sequence. (By the way, you find a map on the second floor.) The avatar obscures potential paths. On the ground floor, I walked all the way to the right to see if there was anything there. Finding my way back was difficult because I got stuck behind an obstacle I couldn't see. Basement level, left room: a dead end. If you just click somewhere to the left within the room, the main character walks along the walls because the collision detection is flawed. Collision detection is poor in other rooms, too. You find the first dead body, but not in the order intended by the developer. Consequently, the commentary triggered by the action (finding another body) is incorrect. There should be an option to turn off the flickering lights. And finally, if you go through the wrong door, you get stuck because you can't run the decontamination process again. Aside from a ton of mazes, I’ve seen hardly anything that would allow for a proper assessment of the content. Based on what I’ve seen so far, it would warrant a 7/10. However, after factoring in the actual gameplay experience I’ve had, I can currently only give it two stars.