Republique Episode 2: Metamorphosis Review
Hope is still alive -- and if you didn't want any spoilers, you should go play the first episode of République before reading the rest of this review. The second installment is titled Metamorphosis, a word that has multiple meanings within Camouflaj's story-driven stealth and puzzle-solving epic. Happily, it doesn't mean the game is changing into something lesser, just building on a great first chapter by adding on a few new layers to both story and gameplay.Metamorphosis picks up right where Exordium left off, and in some ways, right where it started as well. Hope is trapped somewhere she'd rather not be, and to keep her safe, it's going to take a mastery of hacking into the network of surveillance cameras and computer systems in her environment. A default profile can be used to skip right to this chapter if so desired, but playing through its predecessor helps in understanding the core mechanics and is virtually mandatory for making sense of the plot.