Scars Above – Review

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Six months have passed since the appearance of the Metahedron, a large alien structure and the first known contact with an alien lifeform. You play as Kate, a member of the Scar team on board the Hermes ship, tasked with exploring the gigantic alien construct.

You’re quickly Introduced to movement, Chatting with some of your fellow crew members and crafting a tool to blast a few electric bolts. But before your able to reach out to the alien structure, something within the Metahedron activates, and you suddenly awaken on a strange planet, with nothing more than an apparition to follow.

You’ll soon find a cutting tool to slice away conveniently placed branches and your first alien pillar, which serves as a checkpoint, then you’ll pick up VERA, the electric tool you crafted earlier, which through the game will be upgraded with various alterations and upgrades to fire incendiary shots, an ice blast that can be used to freeze hazardous waters and slow down enemies, and a corrosive shotgun. As you progress, you’ll find some enemies have coloured weak spots which receive more damage from a particular type of blast, but generally you’re free to use whichever weapons you prefer, and it’s fair to say all of them got plenty of use.

There’s also gadgets that you’ll unlock as you progress, ranging from a quick overshield, decoys, and a Molotov style grenade that spreads an area of flammable liquid which can be shot to set a large area on fire. Combined with the weapons and consumables to aid to health, ammo, or the energy used for gadgets, you’ll find plenty at your disposal.

Back to the story and your search to find out what on this alien planet is going off. You’ll work through chapters, with a little linear path following, lots