

Rehashing the regenerating necromorph simply to make the end more difficult was stupid. As for the end being "easy." Did you play it on Zealot? Zero fun to be had for me personally. The whole end sequence is a complete let-down. I was having flashbacks to the first game when the crazy doctor guy is like "check this out, I made a Necromorph that regenerates limbs." Fuck that shit! However, the Ripper tears it to shreds without wasting boxes of ammo, so that was nice.

Suddenly you're being stalked by something that regenerates like the Hunter and has the head of the Hive Mind. That thing was freaky in the way it just showed up, no big introduction or explanation.

When it bust into the room I didn't even know it was a new Necromorph until I chopped its limbs off, went to hack the panel and was attacked as it got up again. My favorite part of the ending (even though I hated it in the moment) was the Hive Mind/Hunter hybrid thing. Besides, if you let Nicole touch you get a great/terrible death scene. I enjoyed their lead up in Dead Space 2 ending in a confrontation with the Marker, and that was good enough in place of a final boss or other large grotesque creature. I mean, there was the Hive Mind in the first game, but it wasn't really much of a challenge. It seems to me that Dead Space doesn't really "do" final boss fights.
