![]() This disconnected way of conversing with the games characters also adds to the feeling of isolation the place facilitates so well. This doesn’t matter, though, with the game actually feeling better for it, inspiring your imagination to envisage what these people might look like and what’s really going down on the other side of the door. The majority of the conversations between you and the residents of district C are undertaken through an intercom system attached to the front doors of their dwellings, due to the entire building being in lockdown for an unknown reason. Every person is completely different, each offering an intriguing glimpse into their lives that you gain inadvertently while pressing them for clues and information.ĭan won’t meet many of them face-to-face, however. ![]() The voice acting is stellar across the board whether that be Dan’s deep yet delicate, philosophical but understated speech (voiced by the late Rutger Hauer), or the variety of splendidly written, diverse mixture of tenants you’ll meet throughout the journey. ![]() The game's ambience is spot-on, and with the inclusion of ray tracing in this remaster, it’s not an understatement to say this is one of the best-looking games on the market right now the lighting, shadows and particle effects breath-taking, and the colour pallet perfect.Īdding energy to the game world is its cast of characters. The studio has absolutely nailed the aesthetic and overarching metaphor it conjures, and the environment oozes atmosphere in literally every corner. The rain pelts down beneath a dark sky, with the small, square outdoor space sunken beneath the sprawling metropolis of a cyberpunk skyline. A crumbling wreckage of 20th century hallways juxtapose the neon blue of the makeshift computerized infrastructure that envelopes the building, with the game doing an overall amazing job of mixing new and old together. Following a devastating war and a deadly digital virus that targets Poland’s heavily augmented population, the country was taken over by the megacorporation Chiron - which is as depressing as it sounds.ĭistrict C is a miserable reality for the residents that live there. The district C apartment block from which the game takes place is a frightening depiction of what life might be like for the poor and disenfranchised, in a technologically advanced but emphatically bleak world. Observer is a psychological horror in every sense of the word. ![]() The game is based around this aforementioned apartment building as Dan becomes embroiled in an ever escalating and horrifying mystery, stalking the halls one tentative door handle turn to the next. The story begins with Dan receiving a distressing call from his estranged son, and after triangulating the position and tracing the call to a nearby apartment district, the story begins and never lets go. The Observers are technologically augmented detectives, possessing the ability to jack into other people’s minds - dead or alive - in order to scan their memories in hopes of illuminating clues relating to the case they’ve been assigned. Set in 2084 in a cyberpunk reimagining of the Polish City Krakow, the game follows Daniel Lazinski, a KPD police officer specialized as an Observer. Observer: System Redux is a remaster of the original Observer released by Blooper Team in 2017. ![]()
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