There’s very little dialogue in The Light Keeps Us Safe. At the start of the game, the only speaking role is a woman whispering into the player’s communications device, and she’s only around for a few minutes before she leaves. However, she utters one of the most evocative opening lines I’ve heard recently.
“You are lucky, in a way. You got to hide down there for so long. But now you have to deal with it all alone.”
HIGH When the big C finally shows up.
LOW Is it even possible to max out medical skills?
WTF So, to get the ‘good’ ending I have to skip most of the game? Huh.
HIGH Holding my breath in real life as a madman saunters past my hiding place.
LOW So, does this glass-throwing scene just not work?
WTF Were there no legal issues with using Jodie Foster’s likeness?
HIGH One of this gen’s best indies, now on the go.
LOW Nothing new here for returning players.
WTF The ending is still one of the wildest moments in all of gaming.
HIGH Stabbing a passcode out of a corpse.
LOW Would it have killed them to add some lights?
WTF Wait, am I the killer? That doesn’t make sense…
HIGH Lo-fi visuals and eerie atmosphere.
LOW The experience might be too short for some players.
WTF What is on those tapes?
HIGH Finally spotting the ‘locker ghost’
LOW The entire second building, pre-patch.
WTF So you just expect me to randomly check out that room before fighting the tree?
HIGH Safe Mode opens the door for timid players to experience SOMA’s story.
LOW Chase sequences now lack a sense of danger.
WTF I’ll never get used to using the right trigger to interact with objects.
HIGH Finding the point where the stories dovetail.
LOW Running out of health packs in a no-passenger run.
WTF Seriously, what is going on with these flashbacks? I demand a book!
HIGH Using a fully-upgraded War Pigeon to wipe out two hundred monsters in a matter of seconds.
LOW Getting trapped by the Elder Polyp’s energy vortex again and again.
WTF Tesla’s Death Ray.
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