"Scars Above" impresses with its stunning environmental graphics, creating a hauntingly beautiful alien world. The mechanics blend shooting and exploration effectively, offering smooth combat that feels rewarding. However, the character models are stiff, and the lip syncing often falls short, detracting from immersion. The puzzles are generally easy to solve and don’t require much critical thinking, which may disappoint those seeking a deeper challenge. Overall, it’s a visually striking game that balances action and exploration well, despite its technical shortcomings.

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First, I am a casual gamer. I enjoy spending my hard won free time playing a game and having fun. My favorites are the Witcher series, I've played them all. I appreciate 2077 and AC Odyssey and others like these. I like open world RPGs with First and Third person views. I enjoy FPS as well.

Now that you know something about me and my gaming preferences:

Mechanics are a bit clunky. Visuals are great. Story is...fluff, but no real meat. No Map... Why no map? Anyone would make a map in this scenario.

As others have mentioned the first real Boss or "Alpha" you reach is pretty tough. The scale of difficulty from what you've experienced prior to meeting it is incomparable, off the charts difficult, and interrupts the immersion. I took quite a bit of time to try an learn the timing but the aforementioned "clunkyness" of the mechanics makes it even harder. I'm not willing to dump my time into this tedious and time consuming boss fight.

I don't like Souls games for this very reason. I don't mind a difficult boss this one is designed to take some time or to get the timing down precisely. Anyone playing this will die repeatedly working out the mechanic and that is where this type of Souls approach loses me.

I just ended and uninstalled there. I hope you understand I had higher hopes for the game and I love the art and visual aspect of it, can tolerate the linear story while having almost labyrinthine environment where it goes above and below itself constantly, which I can deal with but outside of that...not worth it to me.

Moving onto the next one. I wanna have fun.

Unfortunately this is a very frustrating game. I don't enjoy boss fights at all. These are very irritating. Take the Alluvial King. Repetitive re-spawn and then walk and then walk slower, cut scene (you can thankfully skip then try again). Boss bashes you start again. It is not obvious how you upgrade your painfully slow firing 'fire gun' to take him down. Rinse and repeat. There is no save as such really aside from glowing pillars, looks nice and that is it. Personally if you don't want to keep on trying and trying to beat a boss and wasting your time walking back to it again and again and again - AVOID.