Paradise Lost is a gorgeous game that tells an intriguing story, set in an interesting alternate universe. The environmental storytelling via documents and recordings works very well, and fits within the setting. However, it would be nice if the documents and recording would be in a fitting language instead of English, to match the narrative of the game. Increasing the walking speed of the protagonist, or getting the option to run, would improve this game as well. But despite these shortcomings, this game is a great experience that will let you delve into an amazing story and explore beautiful and impressive surroundings.
Paradise Lost
PolyAmorous · Mar 24, 2021
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Paradise Lost is a mystery adventure game about coping with loss, and balancing between destruction and creation. Your choices shape and uncover lives past and present, casting light on your true nature. In the end, you have to answer yourself - does humanity deserve another chance? Do you?
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- Dripping with atmosphere, the sights and sounds of a lost end-of-the-world Nazi installation make up for a lack of interaction in Paradise Lost.
- 5.2The pace of the game is slow, there isn’t a whole lot of depth to be found anywhere in Paradise Lost, and it’s not without its frame rate drops and bugs either. Don’t get me wrong, there are certainly some diamonds to be found in the rough here, but they’re few and far between.
- 4.5Unless you’re finding the fun of pulling levers and rummaging through cabinet files for notes and documents to be enough entertainment to keep going, then I can’t really recommend Paradise Lost. It just doesn’t offer a memorable experience enough to justify a purchase.
- Paradise Lost doesn’t have any gameplay systems to keep players engaged and loses some of its potential because of it, but it does use its space well for its storytelling. It creates an otherworldly setting designed to simultaneously wow and disgust players as they make their way through gorgeous, yet heinous structures designed for evil. The stories within these structures are elegantly told for the most part as they reflect and strengthen each other along the way.
- Paradise Lost is an engrossing adventure that will suck you right in and deliver just enough to keep you satisfied but leave you wanting more. The experience is hindered by an aggravatingly slow walk speed with no option to run. While you will get used to it, it only highlights the limitations the walking simulator genre has imposed on what is one of the most unique settings in a game based on this time period.
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