In the end, it is like its predecessor in a way that it provides gamers with an interesting yet flawed experience. It has its great aspects, but it is also riddled with flaws that hurt its replay value. In a nutshell, Simulacra 2 is not something you can consider a classic. Its short length is even a breath of fresh air to a world plagued by hundred-hour sandbox monsters. It is also an excellent reprieve from some triple-A gaming’s more bombastic and loud tendencies. Though it will not pass for real meatspace, its puzzles are neat, and it has a reasonably-told story. There are some moments when you need to pick a response quickly, but it’s not exactly brain-teasing.īut that’s not to say that Simulacra is not worth your time. On some occasions, you’ll need to solve puzzles and chat with NPCs by selecting from a few responses. As mentioned, you’ll spend most of your time fiddling with the apps and scrolling through timelines. Gameplaywise, Simulacra 2 is not too difficult. To make it worse, these jump scares feel entirely unnecessary since they don’t contribute to the narrative. While the jump scares will definitely give you the creeps, it will lose its edge when you see them every few minutes.
Moreover, the game relies heavily on horror clichés. Some of the dialogues in this sequel is patchy and breaks the suspension of disbelief. Sure, the developers improved the wonky writing of the first game. However, the immersive quality of the game is somewhat a letdown. It has all the things a young fitness influencer would have on their phones, including pictures of food, emails from interested brands, and even creepy stalker messages. The design’s attention to detail is remarkable, making Maya’s phone a believable environment. And in this aspect, Kaigon made a decent work. Like the first Simulacra, Simulacra 2 plays its entirety within a single smartphone. And of course, rooting through someone else’s phone to solve a crime is unethical. Moreover, certain narrative elements intrude on far more interesting ideas. Simulacra 2 skirts around the relevant questions of cancel culture and the inherent nastiness of social media. If you are disappointed with how the first Simulacra game panned out, however, then you are once again up for a bit of disappointment. The story also proved to be more ambitious with its larger live-action cast. Moreover, since it is a sequel, Simulacra 2 expanded upon the format in several ways, including adding more inventive apps to interact with. With three viable suspects to deal with, you will have a long and challenging case. You can either play as the fresh-faced detective cynical about the supernatural, or the hard-hitting investigative journalist. Using Maya’s phone, he is up to solve the case. However, Detective Murillo thinks otherwise.
Her death, while having mysterious circumstances, was declared an open-and-shut case by the police. The game revolves around the death of a young Instagram influencer named Maya Crane.
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