Fear Effect Sedna

Critic reviews

• ZZTGD

  Ken McKown · Mar 16, 2018

  4.0

  If there is one bright spot it is the animated cut scenes. These retain the same art style of the originals only presented in crisp high definition. They look and animate beautifully. I just wish they were telling a compelling story. Fear Effect Sedna is a bad game. Sadly, I wanted to love it simply because of my misplaced nostalgia for the original two titles. Going back to them now I am sure I would find plenty of archaic mechanics that simply do not hold up well.

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• WTWay Too Many Games

  Kyle Nicol · Mar 12, 2018

  5.5

  Fear Effect: Sedna is full of half-baked ideas and it’s a shame because they are some good ideas. Puzzles are fun and the story is interesting but the minute to minute gameplay falls apart quickly.

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• HPHey Poor Player

  Mike Vito · Mar 12, 2018

  5.0

  Fear Effect Sedna has a lot going for it. The creepy story is interesting and some of the puzzles are really fun to figure out. The shift to the isometric view was a bold one, and could have been great. Unfortunately, the teammate AI is so bad that it ruins almost everything good that the game has to offer. The focus on stealth is a confusing one, especially when my AI teammates just want to shoot everything in sight. I believe this game needed to cook a bit more before it was removed from the oven.

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• CCOGconnected

  Jake Hills · Mar 08, 2018

  5.5

  What else is there to say? The art style is cool and retro, sort of Telltale-like. It’s trying to update the original games, and it succeeds. I’d call it timeless, but not gorgeous. Otherwise, the whole affair feels sort of perfunctory. That’s a shame because I know that Fear Effect has a cult following. Maybe this is exactly what they want? For the rest of us, Fear Effect Sedna is sort of an interesting artifact; a game out of its own time. If only playing it was any fun.

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• XTXbox Tavern

  Mark Sherwood · Mar 06, 2018

  3.6

  Fear Effect: Sedna is a bad game. Sushee’s confusing design choices are splattered everywhere in sight; ridiculous voice acting, poor level structure, frustrating puzzles, and shoddy combat, to name but a few. The overall product remains tedious, boring, and underwhelming, throughout.

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• GBGaming Bolt

  Ravi Sinha · Mar 06, 2018

  5.0

  Fear Effect Sedna‘s stylish presentation and understanding of the old games’ atmosphere feels severely let down by the terrible tactical action, bad AI, boring level design and annoying cover shooting. Even what should be the biggest appeals of the game, the voice acting and writing, just feel flat as a whole. It’s not like Fear Effect Sedna is offensively bad (except when you mess up a puzzle for the dozenth time in a row) but it does nothing to endear you.

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