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Celestial Return is a worthy successor for Disco Elysium, and it'll be of particular interest if you like Cyberpunk 2077 as well.
Celestial Return is a narrative gamble that blends investigation, cyberpunk, and cosmic horror in a decaying city where every choice matters.
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Celestial Haven boasts a striking, hyper-stylized fusion of cyberpunk and cosmic horror, but the atmosphere is strangled by a lack of overall polish and cohesion.
Celestial Return takes the best elements of the Disco-likes, then adds a couple of clever mechanics to carve out an identity of its own.
Celestial Return is a good cyberpunk adventure that doesn’t make it easy for players to fully enjoy it. Main characters Howard and Rose are very interesting, and the cyberpunk city they live in is filled with interesting encounters.
Celestial Return leaves as bitter a taste as the capitalist dystopia it aims to portray. While the art, music, and story are stunning in their own right, they create an immersion-breaking mishmash that, at times, makes no sense. It feels more like the development team wanted to throw everything they found cool into a single title without considering how it would all work together. Nowhere is this clearer than in the gameplay, which, due to design oversights in the addition of more layers, leads to an extreme number of potential softlocks. In shorter games, it is fine, but in a six-hour story-driven RPG, not so much.
I’m a bit disappointed in how it comes together, but there are moments that really work. The setting is cool and has a lot of potential. They have a flair that could really work with some tweaking.
Celestial Return establishes itself as a high-quality narrative RPG that elevates the genre through a successful blend of cyberpunk and cosmic horror.
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