A SCATHING Critique of Pathologic 3 from Someone who Actually Played it

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Panoorin Ngayon

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Support the channel at https://www.patreon.com/CharlatanWonder All the other good stuff https://linktr.ee/charlatanwonder I didn't want it to be like this. I loved Pathologic 2 and was excited for Pathologic 3, but the game's just bad. Rally, really, really, really, really bad. I don't think this can be salvaged no matter how many patches they throw at it. Pathologic 3's gameplay is dull and overcomplicated and it's story is more of the same, and that's when everything feels like working... and then I made a horrible discovery. Chapters: 00:00:00 An Allegory: The Fandom's New Game 00:02:08 A Primer on Pathologic 3 00:03:24 Part 1 - Change for the Sake of Change 00:24:50 Part 2 - Parts of the Game Feel like They Played Disco Elysium and Said, "Yeah! We Could Totally do That!" (They Couldn't) 00:38:35 Part 3 - Exploitation: You're Gonna Have to do it Eventually 00:49:21 Part 4 - Other Issues With the Game That Don't Fir into the Previous Categories Which is Everything Else About the Game 1:12:55 Part 5 - I Feel Like I'm Taking Crazy Pills 1:18:53 A HORRIBLE Discovery: Charl's Big Steppe Crashout 1:37:04 Forcing Myself to Finish This Game out of Sheer Spite 1:43:10 This Cannot be Redeemed, Maybe it Can be Fixed up a Bit Though for Pathologic 4's Sake 1:48:24 Final Thoughts, Sign-Off 1:50:10 Only the Finest Boxes for Our Saucy Boy 1:51:49 Steppie Patho3's metacritic with all those reviews https://www.metacritic.com/game/pathologic-3/ and just for posterity here's an archive of that page https://web.archive.org/web/20260415183306/https://www.metacritic.com/game/pathologic-3/