Or furiously hand crank your little generator to charge your fading torch.
Even pressing a button over your head to flick your headlamp on and off never stops being fun.
I get it to some degree.
You don’t even get a stealth weapon until surprisingly late on, a fun but sorely underutilized crossbow.
So it’s a shame that stealth doesn’t really utilize it well.
It’s an unsatisfying and unclear replacement to systematically hunting and preying on enemies from the darkness.
Spooky action
It’s a game of diminishing returns.
The supernatural elements also introduce almost time loop-like revisits through certain areas.
By the closing hours it’s mostly avoiding looping ghosts and exposition, which feels anticlimactic.
These also expose the limitations of the otherwise enjoyable practical physicality of the controls.
I really wanted to like Metro Awakening a lot more than I did.
There are good moments to be had here, with some strong action and gunplay.
That first monster encounter is likely to remain burned in my brain for a while to come.
Metro Awakening was reviewed on PS VR 2 with, with a code provided by the publisher.
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