![]() ![]() Observer never holds your hand or answers every question, and your choices will have a very real effect on how you see the world around you and even how it all ends. For example, you have the option to make Dan take his medication whenever his vitals are in the red, but you’re never told why – or what happens if you don’t. There’s a lot left up to interpretation, which can be said for much of the larger story as well. ![]() They’re not an exact replication of the victims’ memories, but more of a trippy reenactment that mashes together different environments and art styles. These “dream eater” sequences keep the derelict apartment setting from ever feeling too claustrophobic. Oh, and you can plug into a chip in dead people’s brains to explore their memories, like you do. You’ll use these abilities to track down whoever’s murdering the building’s tenants, sometimes following a literal trail of blood in your quest to stop the killer and find Dan’s son. Despite the familiar themes, Observer never feels derivative it’s more of a love letter to the works that came before than an imitation.īeing a cybernetically enhanced Observer, Dan Lazarski has a few extra tools at his disposal: he can use EM Vision to analyze electronic equipment, Bio Vision to identify biological materials like blood, and Night Vision to make dark spaces like the building’s creepy basement easier to navigate. There are multiple references to the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as well, including finding physical copies of the book throughout the apartment building, and stumbling upon Easter eggs like this is always a delight. ![]() Lazarski is voiced by the now late Rutger Hauer, whose “tears in the rain” monologue from Blade Runner deserves a spot in the dystopian fiction hall of fame. With that being the case, it's nice to know that Rutger Hauer's will be one of the first faces to grace the new hardware.Observer: System Redux doesn’t shy away from its sci-fi, cyberpunk, and horror influences. Everything's a bit TBD given the COVID-19 pandemic, and a recent report suggests there may be unrelated cost issues hindering PS5 production, but news of any game that's aiming for a next-gen launch is still something to watch for.Īt this rate, we still have a pretty hazy idea of what else we'll be playing when the consoles launch. The trailer promises a Holiday 2020 launch for Observer System Redux, which is still the window that both the Xbox Series X and PS5 are targeting. Maybe there are some unused voice lines Bloober was able to rescue, but with the cyberpunk conceit of glitchy, shifting memories at play, it's not hard to imagine a myriad of ways that System Redux could expand on Observer's world. Now we know it was a build up for System Redux and not a brand-new Observer game, but the promise of new story content still raises the question of how Rutger Hauer's passing will be handled. Still, if both the PS5 and Series X end up running System Redux at a solid 4K, 60 FPS as shown in the trailer, it should be a visual treat, especially for folks who wish a certain other cyberpunk game were launching on next-gen right away.īloober Team started to tease something Observer-related back in January. The original release of Observer has style and fidelity to spare, so it isn't as though it's in need of a remake from the ground up for next-gen. ![]()
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