This game is an experience I will never forget. My expectations of this game were good but not as good as the game actually turned out to be. I played Amnesia: The Dark Descent when it came out and it was fantastically well done especially when it came to the scares.
Soma is developed by Frictional Games which are the same ones who did Amnesia. Both were very profound in similar ways. I like Soma a bit more because it had the same concept of how it delivers its scares but mainly because the writing of this game is phenomenal and it's one that I have never experienced before. This game really gets under your skin because it makes you think how much do you have to lose until you're not considered human or if it's still worth living on without being human and instead in a utopian simulation world where everything isn't real but feels real.
This is the only game that I have played that really puts the thought of realism into it. Most horror games focus on made up stories that do not seem realistic. But this game, even though it's made up, makes you think of it into the sense of reality. Soma scared me with the heart pounding moments that it had, but more so in a mental and cerebral way.
The whole chaos that goes on in the game and the decisions that are to be made trembled my thinking and had me focus my decisions as if I chose them in real life. It has you think of what you would really do if you were in this type of situation.
One other thing that was magnificent and disturbing was how you cannot be transferred to other things like a brain transplant is done. You are only copied which gave me the chills and gave me a bittersweet feeling because it brings out something good for the character Simon whom you're playing, but a more negative effect on the copied version of Simon. It has you question yourself and makes you wonder if one of the Simon's is fake, or if they are equal, or which one is the copy, or if one is more important than the other and if the copy is worth living as much as the original Simon etc. Knowing that there can be another one of 'you' messed with my mind.
In conclusion, this game blew my mind and astounded me in all the ways that it set out to do and delivered everything well. Soma has caused me not to look at brain scans, transplants or Artificial Intelligence (AI) the same way ever again. Frictional Games did a superb job with this one and I cannot wait what they have planned for their next project.
Soma is developed by Frictional Games which are the same ones who did Amnesia. Both were very profound in similar ways. I like Soma a bit more because it had the same concept of how it delivers its scares but mainly because the writing of this game is phenomenal and it's one that I have never experienced before. This game really gets under your skin because it makes you think how much do you have to lose until you're not considered human or if it's still worth living on without being human and instead in a utopian simulation world where everything isn't real but feels real.
This is the only game that I have played that really puts the thought of realism into it. Most horror games focus on made up stories that do not seem realistic. But this game, even though it's made up, makes you think of it into the sense of reality. Soma scared me with the heart pounding moments that it had, but more so in a mental and cerebral way.
The whole chaos that goes on in the game and the decisions that are to be made trembled my thinking and had me focus my decisions as if I chose them in real life. It has you think of what you would really do if you were in this type of situation.
One other thing that was magnificent and disturbing was how you cannot be transferred to other things like a brain transplant is done. You are only copied which gave me the chills and gave me a bittersweet feeling because it brings out something good for the character Simon whom you're playing, but a more negative effect on the copied version of Simon. It has you question yourself and makes you wonder if one of the Simon's is fake, or if they are equal, or which one is the copy, or if one is more important than the other and if the copy is worth living as much as the original Simon etc. Knowing that there can be another one of 'you' messed with my mind.
In conclusion, this game blew my mind and astounded me in all the ways that it set out to do and delivered everything well. Soma has caused me not to look at brain scans, transplants or Artificial Intelligence (AI) the same way ever again. Frictional Games did a superb job with this one and I cannot wait what they have planned for their next project.