8 Ways Video Games Blew Your Mind (Without You Realising)

8. Necromorphs Are All Unique - Dead Space Remake

It was with a collective sigh of relief that the recent Dead Space Remake arrived on the scene with both style and grace earlier this year, doing justice to the original source material whilst adding in significant quality-of-life improvements that show others in the same field how things should be done.

One of the tweaks made to the game is, on paper tiny, but has a huge impact on the player experience overall, and it concerns the necromorphs and the concept of "flesh tearing". As pointed out by MandaloreGaming in their review of the remake, they noted how in this version the player has to not only shoot through the bone of the Necromorph limbs in order to defeat them but now through the muscles and flesh that surround it.

This means that players will need more ammunition overall to rip through the muscle in order to expose the bone, and it's even possible to shred off tissue to slow the movements of these horrors, as now without sufficient strength, they will crawl and stumble around the area. This all creates a greater sense of tension and horror in the player as they will need multiple pinpoint shots to down a foe, but can also strip the Necromorphs of their speed in ways unseen in the original.

This also plays into the fact that there are countless Necromorph designs features, all of which come with limbs of varying tissue coverage, meaning that the same shot on the same enemy won't work to the same extent, meaning that players have to read and adapt to each enemy as if it were entirely unique. And that is utterly terrifying!