I waited fucking years for SCORN, only for the gameplay trailers to misrepresent the final game and some named features like the morality decisions completely missing, and NO NARRATIVE WITHIN THE GAME. It also has the most disappointing ending I've ever experienced in any medium.
You are born into a Walking Sim Bekinsky world, and do some very simple puzzles. At one point you die, respawn from a flesh wall, and this looks like it's setting up some kind of game mechanic. It isn't, this is a setpiece, any other time you die it's a game over. You find a couple of weapons, both of which are similarly setpieces. You almost never use them, and the 'grenade launcher' is more of a puzzle key than a weapon. After your scripted respawn, you're attacked by a creature that looks like the 2-legged runners in Dead Space 2: it begins damaging and crippling your character as it fuses into you, but again, this is a setpiece. It damages you in scripted moments, and then is surgically removed in a scripted moment just before the game ends.
Just as the game looks like it's about to begin having a plot, you die and the game cuts to credits. The parasitic monster is removed from you, you do one or two more puzzles, and then the parasitic monster shows up AGAIN and manages to instantly 100% fuse with ou on the spot this time, leaving you a deformed flesh-flora thing that is effectively dead just as a story was about to begin. The ending is so abrupt and disappointing, the fan base at release was almost entirely people theorycrafting about what literally anything in the game means and what the point of anything was. It was so lacking in substance I saw people saying it's pro-communist, anti-communist, anti-capitalist, a libertarian critique of society, transhumanist propaganda, pro-intersex mutation propaganda, and any number of other retarded things.
As one example: I made a joke in my Steam review that someone in the game left a fridge open and the contents went moldy, and that's how one of the enemy types exist -- and because the game has no explanations and no context and no world building whatsoever, there is nothing within the game that refutes my joke theory.
It was eventually revealed Scorn was basically in development hell the whole time, due to the devs being artfags who knew literally nothing about making a game before going in. It only came out because Microsoft basically screamed at them to shit out a product. The devs had to externally release tons of slapped together background material to give anything that happens in the game any kind of context. As far as I'm aware, those external materials are still the only way any story/meaning for the game can be found.
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