A horror themed game with a pretty good setup where you play as the monster, the atmosphere is definitively very good throughout the game and so is the feeling of being a dangerous monster.

However the game itself can get pretty plain. The puzzles are the same throughout the entire game and the system of reducing your health to switch between powers gets boring and annoying really fast, even more so if you happen to get hit when you needed health and have to walk around looking for ways to recover your health.

The level design is perhaps the most disappointing part. While the game looks huge, it's extremely linear and at almost all times there's only one direction to go to which is very easy to guess. Even when it branches out, it's only because you need to go through multiple small branches to unlock the main path. There's a bit of backtracking to find optional upgrades which require later powers but it's very annoying due to the nature of the game: there's no map, it's very linear and getting to early areas can be very tedious. The game also makes an extensive huge of "teleportation" through gates that take you from one area to another, which doesn't help with mastering your environment. What's more, half these gates are one-sided and can't be used again (there are also areas you can only access once, because it requires a human to be alive and they'll die when you access the area).

Reviewed on Oct 28, 2023


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