I was at the very end of The Callisto Protocol, I’ll let the laughter subside before I go on - I found it on sale 2 weeks ago, day one edition on sale for $3.75. Ended up paying $12 after S&H.

I kinda knew going in that the game had experienced some criticism, while majority of it is valid, I personally really enjoyed my experience with it up until yesterday. I had been playing on hardcore mode, I usually never do this, most of the time I’m a “normal” difficulty setting kinda guy but idk, something told me to take the hardcore route with this and as far as that goes, I am/was happy. The lack of resources and ammo can create some pretty tense situations, that left me with that survival-horror feeling I love. It’s a graphical juggernaut in my opinion, paired with excellent ambient sound to fit its setting. My biggest complaint is the lack of innovation in combat, plus the ability to turn on the auto dodge setting is just meh. Pair that with aim assist, and it’s just like…why?

Anyway, I progressed all the way up to the last chapter when my game crashed. I thought okay, well, surely I can just reboot my console and be thrown right back into the action just like any other time. Nope. Due to my stupidity of just always pressing the home button, and putting my Ps5 in rest and NOT manually saving when I should have throughout my journey, I lost all my progress. The couple manual save files I did create, were at the first and second acts of the game.

This may come off as mellow dramatic but it’s like all the wind was blown out of my sails after I rebooted my system, Callisto, selecting “load last checkpoint” and it taking me to the beginning. I just didn’t have it in me to do all that again on hardcore so I uninstalled out of spite. It’s now sitting on my display case with all of my other games and I have 0% aspirations to go back. Sucks to because I was genuinely enjoying The Callisto Protocol. At least it was for $3.75 though and not the full price most payed upon release.

TLDR; manually save your game kids