After making his way to Adam’s apartment, a headless body is found, and a lockdown is triggered. Nothing good comes out of The Stacks, so Dan continues, doing the fatherly thing of making sure his son is well.
It came from the low-end, high-towering apartment district known as The Stacks. Upon tracing the call, he arrives at its origin. Something about it drives Dan to investigate further. Our Observer, Detective Daniel Lazarski, awaits orders in his car when suddenly a cryptic call is received by his estranged son Adam. Our cyber-dystopia is riddled with a beautiful bleakness, as rain daunts the night and neon lights the way. This year, like much of the game’s themes, is a slight homage to George Orwell’s 1984, where life is rough for the poor and ultimately better for those in power via class.
*Note: The below paragraph lightly details some of the introduction of the game, so some spoilers may be present.Īs I mentioned, the year is 2084. So take your pill, clear your mind, and jack-in to our Observer: System Redux review. Having never played the original, I do not have much to compare it against outside of clips I have watched, but going in blind on this type of game makes all the difference for the impact it can have, as I view the increasingly popular psychedelic horror titles as typically a one and done kind of playthrough. Observer: System Redux is a next-generation exclusive version of the title that reworks the graphics, fine-tunes the gameplay, and adds additional elements to the narrative.
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With my minty fresh Xbox Series X in hand, I wanted to finally take the plunge into the role of the Observer, Detective Daniel Lazarski, played by the now late Rutger Hauer. Fast forward to the pandemic stricken year of 2020, a year that is three years closer to the 2084 setting than Observer’s initial release in 2017. So there it sat, installed but unattended to like many before it. When it was out on Xbox’s lovely Game Pass, I thought “Now is my chance!” and, as is my experience with many titles available on Game Pass, I continued focusing on the games I actually paid for with what little spare time it seems I have. As a fan of 2016’s Layers of Fear, Observer has been on my to-do list for quite some time now.
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