Metro: Last Light Redux - Ishvii Reviews

Metro: Last Light Redux starts a little while after the first game ends, so it's essential to play them in order. Mechanically the game is identical to the first, but with a bigger budget. As before, you're mostly going to be guided by NPCs through corridors while following on a linear story. The story is a string of unfortunate and extremely unlikely events that culminate in a great final showdown. The cutscenes are generally a lot more interesting and have more action in them. Overall it was a really good, memorable experience (both games together) and had a proper ending. Still don't know who the Dark Ones are. Still a bit buggy.

Pros

Much better action cutscenes
Still great voice acting
Has a rather clever unintrusive way of guiding you if you get lost. Your lighter flame waves in the direction of your objective
The game starts out fighting Nazis, which is way more interesting mechanically than monsters that just charge straight at you
I found all the factions living in the underground pretty interesting
All the guns are basically the same as the first game, maybe with the addition of a couple of sniper rifles (which you don't really have a chance to use)

Cons

It still never explains who the Dark Ones are
Given that these are based on books, I feel like quite a lot must have been lost in the translation to video game. There are sections that I just didn't understand, and points where the plot suddenly changed and I didn't really understand why
Scripted events are still buggy
There's a key cutscene about 2/3 of the way through the game that suddenly changes the whole plot. But because there are no words, I found it pretty confusing
It's exactly the same engine, so all the same pitfalls as the first game in terms of mechanics and UI
I found it difficult to work out what was going on in terms of story telling, no thanks to the main character being mute and the game taking a rather weird turn in the last couple of hours
Awful section with a tank at the end of the game. You're getting shot at from every direction, and you're supposed to just magically know that you have to use a sniper rifle to shoot a wheel bar, then two wheels, THEN then turret on top. Oh and not every sniper rifle will do; even after Googling it, I died and reloaded twice more because I was using the 'wrong sniper rifle'