The first game was amazing, i gave it a 9/10. It's like the original game with all the humor, tension, excitement and awesomeness sucked out of it. The original Subnautica was and still is a masterpiece, but Below Zero is extremely disappointing. All in all, there is little to recommend here. You're just going through the motions and It gets tedious very quickly. Without all the wonderful things that made the original game so great, you're only really left with the worst aspects of it, namely the repetition of resource collection. The iconic music from the first game has been replaced with blander and less memorable themes. There are some new items to build, and the addition of land-based monsters to avoid, but that's about it. There's no sense of danger or dread, and little has been done to expand upon the mechanics of the original game. The deeper you went, the scarier things became. The better the gear you acquired, the deeper down into the ocean you could go. Progress was carefully paced, with expertly crafted level design. The original Subnautica had so much atmosphere and was genuinely terrifying at times. It's such a huge departure from the original game that wisely put you, the player, at the heart of the story. Robin likes to talk about her feelings a lot. The game constantly reminds you of this by means of internal monologues as Robin tells you how she feels about the objects she finds, the dreams she has, or her thoughts on music. Instead of you, yourself, being the protagonist, you now play as a woman named Robin. In Below Zero, your PDA is now inexplicably voiced by the sound of an irate tech-support scammer. It's incredibly immersive to be lost in this hostile alien world with only your PDA (a computer assistant with a beautiful, soothing voice that reminded me a lot of Scarlett Johansson) for company. In the original game, you, the player, are the protagonist. The quality of writing and narrative choices in Below Zero are vastly inferior to its predecessor. Most importantly, they got rid of the genius guy who wrote the original story and lore. There are some major differences between the two games that make Below Zero a hollow and unsatisfying facsimile of the original.

The same great visual design is still there, but something felt off from the get-go.

So it was with great anticipation that I looked forward to the release of the sequel, Subnautica: Below Zero. It is absolute perfection in terms of visual and sound design, music, game-play and writing. It is absolute perfection in terms of visual and sound design, music, The original Subnautica is one of the greatest video games ever made. The original Subnautica is one of the greatest video games ever made.

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