CHERNOBYLITE PRESS THE BUTTON UPGRADE
You can craft a plethora of machines that allow you to create new equipment and upgrade existing ones, but doing so decreases the comfort level of the base which by extension can take a toll on the health and psyche of your companions. Chernobylite offers a number of base upgrades by means of crafting, which strikes a fine enough balance between accessibility and depth.
"At times, it can prove to be a fun tug-of-war between how much resources should be used to upgrade the base, and how efficiently one can keep comfort problems at bay."Īll of these colorful personalities reside at The Warehouse, which acts as the base of operations for the entire game.
However, the one-tone main cast is offset by a band of funny and likable companions, the standout highlights of which are Tarakan, a delusional maniac who wants to defeat The Rat King and Mikhail, an obnoxiously loud and violent junkie with a dark past. The main characters aren’t also interesting enough to warrant emotional investment in their personal tragedies, which is accentuated to a further degree by inconsistent dialogues and voice acting – which can range anywhere from convincing to downright embarrassing all at the flip of a switch. While it’s filled with a number of revelations surrounding time paradoxes and the supernatural, it didn’t feel as emotionally impactful as I’d wanted it to be. This is further exasperated by an ending that veers more into the philosophical territory than humane, which leaves a sour taste in the mouth. This forms the basis for a seemingly humane and emotional plotline revolving around love and commitment but quickly falls into a number of post-apocalyptic tropes as emotional story beats are sidelined in favor of raising a collective revolution against the oppressive NAR, who wants to exploit the Chernobylite material for its own corporate greeds. "This forms the basis for a seemingly humane and emotional plotline revolving around love and commitment but quickly falls into a number of post-apocalyptic tropes as emotional story beats are sidelined in favor of raising a collective revolution against the oppressive NAR." After a friend’s unfortunate death at the hands of the Black STALKER, Igor and his companion Olivier vow to take revenge and rescue Tatyana. It then quickly cuts to a dilapidated version of the place, and you are put right into another botched heist job at the power plant wherein you get to meet the main antagonist of the game, the Black STALKER. Chernobylite treads a fine line in terms of balancing all of these together but is hampered down by a few annoying oversights that stop it from reaching the triumphs it should.Ĭhernobylite starts off simply with a flashback of the protagonist Igor aboard a train with his fiance and the love of his life, Tatyana.
Set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone following a botched nuclear experiment, Chernobylite is a post-apocalyptic RPG ripe with a number of mechanics lifted straight out of contemporaries of the genre, and a few others from not-so-obvious places.
CHERNOBYLITE PRESS THE BUTTON FULL
After spending almost 2 years in Steam Early Access, The Farm 51’s Chernobylite has finally seen the light of day with its full release.
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