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This is a short review of the demo for Cthulhu: the Cosmic Abyss.
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Hello everyone and welcome to a pros and
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cons of the demo for the video game
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Cthulhu the cosmic abyss on not mom I'm
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gaming.
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These are short videos featuring all my
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little nitpicks and pleasantries with
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having played the game while sustaining
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a bare minimum of spoilers.
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Keep in mind demo reviews do not reflect
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the full release of a game as many
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things can change from demo to release.
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Let the reviewing begin.
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Pros:
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sonar helps you find objects.
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You have a keybind you can use that acts
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as a literal sonar, which will highlight
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objects around you that you can
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investigate.
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Not that everything will be super
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beneficial to you in the moment, but
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they're worth looking into. I'm happy
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when detective types of games throw this
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ability in. That way, we don't have to
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look all over the place for things that
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may or may not help with their
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objective.
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Find things easier with frequencies.
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Once you understand how the sonar menu
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works and you get a handle on choosing
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what frequencies you need to find
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certain things, it makes it so much
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easier to find what you actually need to
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progress forward. Like with the powering
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of the station section for me, it gave
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me such a hassle. Once I figured out the
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frequencies, I found what I needed. It
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just took me way too long to figure out
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how frequencies even worked and what to
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pair with what. because you can pair up
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to three material components, let's say,
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and as long as those three are connected
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somehow, your sonor ability will point
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them out in the environment.
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Pick and choose evolutions.
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The evolutions are your abilities that
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you can not place points into, but give
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yourself in regards to your capacity.
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For instance, if I have three evolutions
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to choose from and my brain has a
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capacity of five slots, I can choose
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enough evolutions that will fill up
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those five slots. Each evolution icon
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has the amount of capacity it takes up
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on it. So, you'll know. I think from
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what I could glean from my playthrough
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that you can choose whichever evolutions
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you want on the fly as long as you have
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enough capacity for them. I'm not sure
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if this is a game where if you choose
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certain ones, you're stuck with them,
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which makes the evolution system even
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nicer if that's the case.
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Cons:
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Are we okay when we jump?
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It sounds like we're really struggling
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whenever we jump up and down. Like, it's
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taking everything out of us just to jump
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in place. If he's having that hard of a
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time with it, maybe he doesn't need to
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be jumping in the first place.
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Sonar menu confusing. I got stuck for
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way too long in a portion of the game
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where I had to power up a station and I
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basically needed a full hydrogen tank or
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two if I remember correctly. But there
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are a ton of cans scattered about that
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are empty, meaning you have to find the
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full ones. Well, I looked all around one
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area and I couldn't get the power to
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work with the tubes I found. So, I
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traveled all over the base for no
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reason. You can use the sooner menu to
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group specific frequencies, and this
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should enable you to find specific items
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a lot quicker, but I had no idea what I
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was doing. I feel like the game should
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have taken us through an example
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scenario when introducing us to the
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sonar menu. Otherwise, it just looks
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weird and complicated. Once you
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understand it, it's not that bad. It's
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kind of like an Oh, that's how it's
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used. But the fact that it took me
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forever and a half on a demo in order to
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figure out how it really is supposed to
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work is annoying.
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fiddling with our wrist during downtime.
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For some reason, when we haven't moved
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in a while, our character will rotate
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his wrist or kind of fiddle with it. And
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he does this so often, it somehow
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triggers my anger. Like, I want to
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constantly move when I remember he puts
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an emphasis on his wrist. I'm not sure
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why he does it either. I don't know if
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he's got something wrong with that wrist
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or hand where it acts up when he's not
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moving it around. I'm not sure if it's
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supposed to be a nervous habit, but it
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doesn't really seem to be the kind of
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person with that kind of nervous energy.
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Characters can twitch and shift from
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foot to foot and do whatever they need
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to during downtime and not moving. I
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really don't mind it. But the reason
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this is so triggering to me is because
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of how often he does it. I'm sitting
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here thinking about how to figure
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something out for a minute. He's fled
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his wrist like five times. Stop.
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manually look into tutorials.
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When you come across something you've
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not done before, a tutorial for it does
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pop up, but you have to go into the menu
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to see it. And I'm one of those people
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that are busy looking at the things in
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front of me that half the time I'm not
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going to think about going into the menu
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to figure something out. Now, I
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understand that this is a me problem,
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don't worry. But I prefer games that
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give you a tutorial upfront instead of
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having you look for it yourself,
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especially if it's something as complex
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as this game gives you.
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And that's the end of our pros and cons
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review of the demo for the game Cthulhu:
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The Cosmic Abyss. Thanks for watching
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everyone, and don't get in too much
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trouble when you say, "Not now, Mom. I'm
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gaming.