![]() The newspapers aren't happy though, and her Vice President isn't exactly chuffed either. Meanwhile, more history is being made at home following Ellen's coming out speech. ![]() Just as Lee thinks about ending it all, he's distracted by some surprise visitors and ends up tied to their Mars buggy on a one-way ride back to NASA's base. The first death of many in this episode, we later learn. Lee is the first human to ever set foot on Mars, and he's also the first to draw a smiley face on Mars soil too, because he's pretty much going mad after his only crewmate died during the landing. Obviously, a rocket ship was involved, but beyond that, Lee's origin story reveals that both America and Russia were actually beaten to the punch by North Korea's arrival some time earlier. The Ishimura-style atmosphere is terrific yet, again, merely dabbled in.Following the surprise appearance of a North Korean astronaut last week, episode 10 starts by explaining how Lee Jung-Gil ended up on Mars in the first place. One seemingly invincible zealot that stalks the player à la Pyramid Head has a lot of potential, but again barely does anything of note and is dispatched in a most underwhelming fashion. The self-maiming Unitologist splinter group is a great concept, but never gets much screen time, while its mysterious leader is barely present in the plot. It’s not just that it’s a short adventure - nobody expects a DLC add-on to last another ten hours - it’s that not a single idea presented in the game is fully formed, existing instead as merely a surface level showcase of what a good idea might possibly look like. ![]() General briefness is by far Awakened‘s biggest problem. ![]() ![]() As one of the creepiest enemy types across the entire series, the Pack’s reappearance is welcome, even if it is generally brief. As well as the new cultists, we get a variant of the Stalker Necromorph, and the Pack return from Dead Space 2 to give Isaac yet more dead children to slaughter. ![]()
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