The Ultimate SOMA Discussion Thread

[Sampyli]

the environmental interactivity was fairly minimal (possibly partly because it was designed for working with gamepad).

Wrong. This was because of the simplistic puzzles. (So players wouldn't get confused what is a puzzle item and what isn't, since there was no inventory.)

I'm rather talking about things like the water chase part (quickly opening and closing the doors), or the box stacking part in Justine, where you had to be quick and/or accurate with the object manipulations. I don't think the required precision is possible with a gamepad, so similarly complex or 'difficult' gameplay elements wont happen in a game designed with a gamepad in mind.

I suppose this is true, but I don't think FG would repeat themselves with such sequences. Then again, who knows.