Chorus Review

 Chorus Review

What is the ideal way to achieve harmony? Is tyranny acceptable in order to achieve a lofty end? These are the main questions that Chorus raises in her story that will take us to outer space, across the galaxy, and between different solar systems as one of the rare arcade shooters, we've been getting in recent years.

The story puts us in the role of Nara, who was one of the soldiers chosen by the leader of a religious group known as The Circle, which began to spread and rule over various parts of the galaxy, the goal of this group is to achieve harmony in or what is known as Chorus, which is to end all wars and conflicts and Nara was ready To carry out all of her leader's orders, even if it means losing millions of lives, the weight of the crimes has become heavy on Nara, who decides to defect and escape out of The Circle's control. But this time to protect the resistance and refugees from the tyranny of her former group, and here Nara returns to find her companion, Forsaken, a vehicle with modern technologies that uses advanced artificial intelligence, and here begins the journey of Nara and her companion to liberate the galaxy and eliminate her former teacher.

The story fails to arouse interest as it tries to flood you with many details that try to give depth to the game world, but many ideas are not interconnected with each other and others need more explanation and detail to understand, and the events of the game will remind you of any movie or game that talks about the conflict between two factions in Outer space, the dialogues are superficial and lacking in depth, and the dialogues between Nara and Forsaken become repetitive with time, and we do not know the reason for this decision, but Nara comments on many dialogues by whispering repeatedly and boringly, especially since many of these comments contradict what the character said Shortly before!

 

On the graphical level, the game offers beautiful graphics and the environments that you will pass through are full of details from rock blocks and the rubble of vehicles or space stations and other elements of the environment.  The various effects such as weapons effects or the crash of vehicles of different sizes and some of the scenes that you will pass through during the experience are truly amazing, at the level The audio game also offers a distinct set of melodies, and the melody for the main screen in particular was unique.

 

The gameplay is the biggest advantage of Chorus, the movement of the vehicle is very smooth and interactive in a precise way, and you are also able to press a special button that allows you to quickly change the path of your movement or the direction you are shooting at.  It allows you to perform many innovative maneuvers and deal with various critical situations, and the game will not require you to It takes a long time before we get used to the gameplay, and we add to this that the game offers a group of supernatural abilities that Nara acquires within the scope of the story, and each of these abilities adds additional depth to the playing experience and provides you with more possibilities to defeat your opponents, and we can say that Chorus without exaggeration is one of the best games of the genre Which we have experienced in terms of gameplay.

The difficulty is balanced and over time you will meet enemies that will be difficult for you to defeat, and then the game offers you a new superpower that makes defeating them less difficult and the game maintains a medium difficulty while challenging your skills from time to time.  The game offers a number of boss confrontations, each of which depends on a specific strategy to defeat Leader But it is unfortunate that some boss encounters are poorly designed, resulting in confusing confrontations, whether because of the strategy required to defeat the boss or the environment in which you are facing him.

During your adventure, you will earn points, through which you can buy modifications to your vehicle or buy new weapons. The weapons are three sections: the machine gun, the laser cannon, and the rocket launcher. The modifications to your vehicle range from increasing the power of your weapons or increasing the speed and maneuverability of your vehicle, and there are modifications that improve From the ability of your vehicle and its armor to receive damage, there are also modifications that improve your ability to use supernatural abilities, but modifying vehicles is not routinely necessary, it can be done every few hours, especially since weapons become stronger as soon as you use them and meet certain conditions that increase the efficiency of your use.

The game offers an open world that offers many side missions that range in duration, but it rewards you with an excellent number of points that will make it easier for you to buy more expensive weapons, but the problem of the game is one of the usual problems in open world games, which is the preference for number over  The missions are numerous, but they lack diversity and are usually limited To go to a specific area and face a number of enemies, and it was possible to present more challenges or missions in which you maneuver your vehicle in narrow areas, especially with the introduction of the game to a smooth and enjoyable control system, during the experience you will have to make some decisions that will have an impact on the course of events, but These positions were very few and can even be counted on the fingers of one hand.  It was possible to use such elements more intensively, which would have raised the player's interest in the course of events and the impact of his decisions on them.