The eternal goal of “finding Aiden’s sister” is a moldy breadcrumb trail that twists from one sidetracking side plot to another before remembering to take precedence again at the game’s climax.
It settles into an overly familiar shape formed by the exploration of long-forgotten secret labs, errand-running between factions and predictable interpersonal betrayals. The potential of this story evaporates as it moves along, though. Instead of allowing players to take in the scene before them and allowing a sense of place to develop, they’re encouraged to assess locations with the robotic outlook of a Roomba, combing every new room for glowing items. The dialogue is dreadful, stiffly voiced and peppered with awkwardly placed curses, and the cramped setting provides few opportunities to showcase the excellent parkour movement mechanics of “Stay Human.” To properly pick clean an environment, you have to trigger Aiden’s “survivor sense” by pressing down on the right thumbstick, which drenches the screen in halogen-bright waves to mark locations of useful loot. Aiden and a colleague scavenge through an empty house, skeletons draped like decorative throws on couches next to dusty artifacts from the days before everything went wrong.
“Stay Human” opens by stumbling through a long scene of characters in apocalyptic rags dreaming of the day they can retire from their work as wasteland couriers. These issues are clear from the beginning.
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