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Sunday, May 11, 2025 6:51:27 PM

Steel Seed Review (Rimmy)

First impressions are important. The first impression of this game was not great. Couldn't handle the story past the first mission. There was so much that didn't make any sense at all after "introducing" the character with an overly used intro trope. See below.
You are Zoe. You are on an operating table with an IV in your arm. Your dad and hunched over a computer coughing. He assures you that everything is okay after you voice your concern. Fade to black... Zoe wakes up. She's a robot or android now. We also meet Koby the cuteish flying robot companion. He only talks in beeps and boops, yet somehow Zoe understands him. She doesn't trust him, yet follows him because he just wants to help. (Yay, Zoe got a BB8! I'm gonna hurl.)
Tutorial time. You learn the basic movement which is solid enough. Jump, climb(on yellow ledges only...), double jump, crouch(sneaky mode wooo), and you get the gist of it. Next follows the first interesting scene. Zoe and Koby come out into an open area and you see the massive scope there is to the game. You are in a huge mechanical structure with flying crafts zipping to and fro. This was the first bit of environmental story telling that had me interested. What happens after that? Do you get to enjoy the view? Examine the mega-structure? Nah, you get attacked and forced into an escape scene from some robot soldiers that read the "Storm Troops Guide to Shooting" and some giant mecha gorilla looking thing. Why? Dunno there has not been much context yet. So far we know that Zoe is in a huge scifi megastructure and that someone wants her dead.
Needless to say, you escape, fight/assassinate some robot soldiers, and make your way outside again only for the gorilla mecha to find you again(How?! Isn't this supposed to be a stealth game?). He destroys a bridge Zoe was standing on and she falls. Camera pans to the leg(boot?) of the BBEG as he stands there menacingly. He utters one word in a grim and baleful tone, "You."
Boy oh boy, wasn't that something? Game goes from 0 to 60 with almost no context or explanation. generic "stealth" mechanics, and a protagonist and sidekick trope that has been done many MANY times over. Game is very good looking, movement is smooth, combat is meh, assassinations are quick and dynamic, but the story given to you at the start was so vague and the voice lines so out of place that I could not get invested. Check a "Before you buy" vid before looking into this one, folks.