About Strucid:
This review is somehow difficult for me because I both love and hate NEON STRUCT. I’m going to explain why but let me first say that this is a very good game and if you like stealth games, the real ones, you should try this one. If you want a comparison with other games, NEON STRUCT is basically Thief (1, 2 and DS) in a modern world. I’ve read a lot of people comaring it to Deus Ex and System Shock but the game differs a lot from them and I can’t really understand what those reviewers played.You can compare the atmosphere of Deus Ex but not the gameplay. You play as Jillian Cleary, a spy who got framed and has to find a way to clean her name. During the story you will find information about a cospiracy and more importantly about the people involved in this cospiracy. The story is quite simple and predictable but yet interesting. I was expecting something more honestly and I was a bit disappointed at the end. The gameplay is similar to the Thief gameplay: you sneak around and try to reach the objective without being killed. Your weapon is the shadow and good timing. You can knockout people, move bodies, disable cams, pick locks and steal, You also have access to a big arsenal of tools that can help you, such as bombs that can create shadows or stims that can make you better in hacking for sometime. The level design is good with multiple entrances and exploring the levels is nice. The main problem with level design is that levels are incredibly small for this kind of game. I’m not sure why the developer didn’t make a bigger world but levels are often too small to be a real challenge and they can break immersion. Something that bother me is that the levels are smaller than other games, like Thief games, even if this game has been released in 2015. This aspect could be improved a lot imho. The AI is terrible and predictable: you can easily learn how to trick the AI and if you knockout guards then the game will be in easy mode all the time. The game shines when you don’t knockout the guards but I guess that’s not for everybody and can be frustrating. Also, hitting a guards is very easy and that makes disable guards a joke; you just need to be “behind” them and they fall asleep immediately. It feels very unnatural and too easy.
