I decided to go back on my words and actually complete the only DLC for Callisto Protocol. I highly doubt I would have returned to it later, and if I did, I would have forgotten how to play the game anyway.
I decided to play it on PS4, because I didn’t want to buy it on PC.
I was complaining about unnecessary transitions on PC. On PS4 the loading times are so bad that sometimes the lift doors won’t open, because the level behind them is still loading, something that never happened to me on PC.
Because I can’t transfer my saves, I started with a default loadout. Which is, to be honest, fair. You get mostly upgraded shotgun, glove, and pistol, and you can pick up other weapons as you go. Worse off than if I could continue from my save, but it is what it is.
Jacob starts with light amnesia, for some reason. He also hallucinates Elias, the now dead cellmate, which didn’t happen to him in the original. There’s a “new” enemy: same robot with a flashlight, but this time covered it fungi.
Also, I guess because people complained about boring vent crawling, now they added traps inside the vents. Which only make them more annoying, as they do not save you before the vent. At least I was prepared the second time.
At some point you break your button and given a hamme, because developers couldn’t implement two melee weapons at once. In addition to being incredibly powerful in melee, it can also break crates.
Credit given where credit is due, they actually added an almost original boss. It’s obviously based on two-headed ogre, but it has also a ranged attack and a stomp, and transitions between melee and ranged forms. It’s actually better than the final boss from the original, in a sense.
Now for the final reveal, so how did Jacob survive? He didn’t. The entire DLC is lucid dream as he’s dying limbless, connected by doctor Mahler to ICU, while she uses his chip to transfer evidence. I actually don’t mind this ending, as I didn’t understand Dead Space attachment to Isaac, it makes more sense to switch protagonists as it becomes harder and harder to explain how they end up in same situations over and over again, loosing all their arsenal every time. Also, that doesn’t undermine his sacrifice, for one. And in the context that we’ll most likely will never see Callisto Protocol 2, it makes total sense.
