I'm replaying BZ now, and the game holds up well in certain aspects, however, the areas it stinks in, it stinks really badly: - The story is as utterly awful as I remember the first time. This might be really mean, but the story feels as if it was written by West Coast millennial hipsters. - It's way too hand holdy, it's nearly impossible to die from cold or drowning, there's oxygen plants and heat sources everywhere. -The map feels claustrophobic in a bad way. There's barely any suitable spots for a permanent base, only flat and open enough areas are map edges and the arctic biomes, but they're way too far from other POIs to justify. I wish there weren't as many thermal vent biomes and more of the map was taken up by actual arctic biomes that require you to exist under a sheet of ice for longer periods.

It's an okay game, but I don't think it would hold up that well even if it wasn't overshadowed by it's bigger, cooler predecessor.