It is not a good game.
It's a fatal frame without everything that makes a good fatal frame. Sure, they have the camera, but that's all it is. There are no multiple storylines, no scenes that genuinely scared me or made me feel pressured... all the ghosts are simple to kill and none of them really show any mechanics like the tutorial said (that there are ghosts that you can only hit in the back, that's a lie).
You can't zoom in with the camera until near the end of the game when it's no longer useful, and the zoom is super strong as you can be literally invincible.
but judging it as a game of the fatal frame franchise is not good; it's not a fatal frame, it's a different game
and judging it as a horror game... it sucks.
Act 1 takes place in a two story square that you go up and down for lore (which btw is not thought provoking at all, it's completely straightforward and dull) and act 2 is more open, but consists of scripted scene with instakills or trading in combat and it just doesn't feel right.
When you die, the game sends you into a "limbo" that makes you run from point A to point B and the more you die, the longer the amount of time you have to run. This can be disabled as one of the "accessibility" settings, but it really makes it more difficult.
Why? well... you respawn exactly where you died and the enemies don't return to their point of origin, so they can literally spawnkill you or corner you into a wall without you being able to do anything because of the stunlock they give you, which leads you to walk back 30 seconds in limbo. If this setting is disabled; maybe you spend 1-2 minutes walking and that will give time for the ghost to move because they usually have different places they go, BUT disabling this option also disables you an achievement!
I don't want to spoil the story, but I can say what it is so irrelevant and bad about. The ghosts don't really have stories either, they're just ghosts that are part of Indonesian folklore but they just threw them in and put them in random places. While it was fun googling and learning things I didn't know, I would have wished there was some kind of story like in some fatal fra- ................ in some decent game.
I was hoping I could enjoy it at some point but.. nope.
was never the case. Bad gameplay, bad writing, lack of atmosphere with songs that end in fade out so you can tell when they loop again. You can tell it's a first time game from the developers. A free to play horror game from steam gives you a more complete experience than the first DreadOut.
It's a fatal frame without everything that makes a good fatal frame. Sure, they have the camera, but that's all it is. There are no multiple storylines, no scenes that genuinely scared me or made me feel pressured... all the ghosts are simple to kill and none of them really show any mechanics like the tutorial said (that there are ghosts that you can only hit in the back, that's a lie).
You can't zoom in with the camera until near the end of the game when it's no longer useful, and the zoom is super strong as you can be literally invincible.
but judging it as a game of the fatal frame franchise is not good; it's not a fatal frame, it's a different game
and judging it as a horror game... it sucks.
Act 1 takes place in a two story square that you go up and down for lore (which btw is not thought provoking at all, it's completely straightforward and dull) and act 2 is more open, but consists of scripted scene with instakills or trading in combat and it just doesn't feel right.
When you die, the game sends you into a "limbo" that makes you run from point A to point B and the more you die, the longer the amount of time you have to run. This can be disabled as one of the "accessibility" settings, but it really makes it more difficult.
Why? well... you respawn exactly where you died and the enemies don't return to their point of origin, so they can literally spawnkill you or corner you into a wall without you being able to do anything because of the stunlock they give you, which leads you to walk back 30 seconds in limbo. If this setting is disabled; maybe you spend 1-2 minutes walking and that will give time for the ghost to move because they usually have different places they go, BUT disabling this option also disables you an achievement!
I don't want to spoil the story, but I can say what it is so irrelevant and bad about. The ghosts don't really have stories either, they're just ghosts that are part of Indonesian folklore but they just threw them in and put them in random places. While it was fun googling and learning things I didn't know, I would have wished there was some kind of story like in some fatal fra- ................ in some decent game.
I was hoping I could enjoy it at some point but.. nope.
was never the case. Bad gameplay, bad writing, lack of atmosphere with songs that end in fade out so you can tell when they loop again. You can tell it's a first time game from the developers. A free to play horror game from steam gives you a more complete experience than the first DreadOut.