Selaco: Blind Playthrough with Commentary (Captain Difficulty 12/12)
Finale time! Also WARNING: Don't read if you don't want any spoilers.
I think this might be the single greatest FPS experience I've had in a long time. It's everything I wanted from a game that takes inspiration from F.E.A.R.; there's over the top particle effects, smart enemy AI, incredible world building, tons of environmental detail & interaction, A LOT of unexpected twists, and the atmosphere... my God the atmosphere!
This game has such a lonely, unsettling, and tense atmosphere that always kept me on high alert throughout regardless of if I was in combat or goofing around looking for secrets. Speaking of which, the secrets are incredible; they all feel varied & unique, and aside from the occasional cracked wall that needs blowing up a vast majority of them require players to think and/or experiment with the game's mechanics to get to them.
Also that finale... I thought the game leading up to it was tense, but that entire last area with the eerie droning, mechanical growling and stomping, dust falling everywhere and an abundance of the game's tougher opponents, that was really fucking intense. Of course I mean that in the best possible way, but I am a bit sad that for all that incredible buildup the payoff was a cliffhanger and not a proper boss fight. Still I can't really fault it for being an indie game that feels 1000 times more polished than any of the modern AAA slop coming out these days.
I do really want to make a 100% playthrough for this game, but sadly as you can tell OBS absolutely hates recording this game and I still haven't found a solution. I've tried adjusting in game settings, OBS settings, forcing the game to run in OpenGL instead of Vulkan, but nothing seems to work... So sadly, unless you guys REALLY want me to do a 100% playthrough and are willing to put up with the crappy footage, then I'm afraid this will be the last Selaco video I will publish to this channel. I will more than likely do blind playthroughs at least when Chapter's 2 & 3 come out, but nothing beyond that until I can find some way to record without problems.
Either way, this game is insanely good. I know people are against getting early access games that are still in development but I will happily shill for this one. With just "the 1st" chapter alone you're getting 12 plus hours of gameplay, not including the time you'll want to spend admiring your surroundings, interacting with the world, exploring, secret hunting, replaying the game with different modifiers, trying out modded content, and so much more.
Thanks again for watching, thank you devs for making this masterpiece, and as always, stay Serious!