I'm at Chapter 11 in Dead Space 3. The combat and weapon building have remained consistently tense and fun. The shotgun is amazing.

Good thing too, because the story is mediocre and has never really dragged me in. I'm most intrigued by what happened on this planet 200 years ago rather than Isaac and company's predicament here and now.

And dear sweet Celestia, the love triangle subplot has reached "Punch A Baby" levels of cringeworthy. Good god, Visceral.

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Having beat Ori twice, my next backlog game is Dead Space 3.

I was expecting the emphasis on action over horror that so many people detested, so that's enjoyable, but the save and checkpoint system is absolute garbage, and is so incredibly inferior to the Save Stations of the previous two games.

There is no manual saving, and if you quit, you reset at your last checkpoint. Depending on what you're doing, that could be ten minutes ago, or an hour ago.

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