Redfall is a mess, but it's not purely a mess
But those fridges. That large metal sink. Wait a minute! What did this place used to be?! A doctor's office? A morgue? Actually, the answer lay on a sideboard, below some voguish honeycomb shelving. Cake stands, all of them empty, and cake dishes with those glass covers that make them look like bell jars. This was a cake store! One look at the hand-drawn map on another wall all but confirmed it.
There's technical stuff wrong with the game, from slow loading textures and the stumbling frame rate to the fact that yesterday I tried to use my super in a tight spot and ended up frozen in space with no super and no ability to use a gun anymore - so I was in an even tighter spot really. The default controls are both sluggish and skittish, making aiming deeply unpleasant.
These moments are odd, though, because they remind me that Redfall doesn't really know what it is. Arkane made its name with immersive sims, and some of that DNA has been preserved. There are loads of beautifully written notes and books and articles and all that jazz to read. Levels will give you a wide range of ways to approach them. But it's also a fast-paced co-op shooter, and I'm not sure I've ever worked out how to play an immersive sim at speed with friends online.
It's a shame to have to get through all those issues. Because deep down, I have enjoyed my time here and I want to try and understand why. I try to remember: if how I felt about a video game was the result of some kind of equation I simply stuck objective numbers into - controls, AI, texture loading, 'lastability' - and then just processed the output, I wouldn't need to play any of them in the first place.
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