Official Poll Regarding SOMA's Monsters

[Damascus Rose]

One thing that I really felt worked well with the game and I was sad there wasn't more of it was the enemy that you couldn't tell if he was aggressive, passive until you get close, or just completely passive. That was one of the most interesting encounters even though it was short and pretty insignificant. I'm talking about the corrupted swimming helper (h3?). I loved hearing his dialogue and the way he reacted to me and never being quite sure how he would behave. This is something that definitely should've been explored more in other places and would've added a lot more depth to the enemies. The other one like that was the robot girl, that ended up being the creepiest encounter in the game for me and I found it worked really well. Hearing and seeing her visibly cough and suffer and me slowly walking up terrified but wondering if she might not be aggressive was one of the most stand out experiences of the game. Instead of having so many outright aggressive enemies the game should've used more creatures with varying behaviour to connect them to the narrative better.