Shattered Space is damned by its disinterest in addressing Starfield's failings.
While its new environments are a decent aside, Shattered Space seems largely content to tread water, leaving Starfield the same mixed bag it always was.Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to really get to the heart of what matters most to you.My biggest bone to pick with Starfield was its timid vision of the future.
This insular theocracy's ruling families have no love for outsiders, but you're the main character in a Bethesda game, so no named faction can go un-joined. But even though these sorts of quests tend to shine in Fallout and The Elder Scrolls, Va'ruun's mystique wears off once you settle into the rhythm of its storylines.
This haunts the narrative, too. For a brief moment, a couple characters posture about the relationship between religion and science in an age where humanity has abandoned its home planet and become dependent on its own technology; and then they snap out of it like a bad dream, pointing me toward the next objective marker before anyone can take a meaningful stance. Just like the base game, Shattered Space proves too gunshy to tip the status quo of its world in any direction.
Bethesda's marketing hype insists on the novelty of the game's"NASApunk" identity and promised this expansion would build that out, but I remain unsold. It's not innovative enough to be confused for NASA, and it doesn't say enough to be confused for punk. Shattered Space drew the most emotion out of me when its occult houses reminded me of Morrowind, a world that feels substantially more alien and provides the player more agency without a single starship on offer.
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