If you've been put off by the reviews, I strongly urge you to give this game a chance.
After watching the quick look I was immediately interested in this game, because, well this game IS really interesting. It's the best word to describe Soul Suspect.
When I finally got around to playing it, I was completely in love with the setting, the story and the characters - but the gameplay? Man, the gameplay stinks!Half the time I was wishing there was a 'skip gameplay' button, it almost made me regret I wasn't just watching a let's play of it. I stuck with it though and found myself somewhat enjoying the detective moments.
The open-world sections are dumb, and just an excuse to throw in some mindless collectables. Some of the collectables actually are worthwhile as they unlock these ghost-story type logs, all of which I found really damn cool. The demons? FUCK. THAT. Such a pointless enemy that serves no purpose and I can't believe they decided to include them. IGN considers the demons to be a 'good inclusion of strategy' -- that's a load of bullshit. If you get to a demon and aren't just immediately trying to sneak up and kill them, then you'll probably find yourself spamming to transfer between hiding spots until they fuck off. No strategy, just annoyance.
For the positives? Probably my favourite lead character in a long, long time. Ronan is such a bad-ass, but not in an over the top way, he's just a really likable dude who wants to get shit done. Joy (your side-kick) is also fantastic and the voice work and expression from both of them is absolutely TOP NOTCH.
I can't remember the last time I loved how two characters interacted with each other since maybe Uncharted, or possibly even as far back as The Darkness. They just seem incredibly down to earth and aware of how fucking insane the story they're part of is.
So to sum up. Gameplay is shit apart from some of the detective work. Story (albeit gets a little dumb half way through) and characters are amazing and almost worth drudging through for. Give it a try.
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