"Those Who Remain" is a 5 hour game that is about 5 hours too long.
Incompetently designed from start to finish with gameplay mostly consisting of walking into a room, turning on a light, picking up notes devoid of subtlety, and then being confused for 3 minutes trying to figure out wtf the game wants you to do. The enemy design is laughable at best and pitiful at worst without a single moment of tension existing at any point during the experience. Most of the "enemies" just stand there doing nothing, looking like a free unity model with a dumb fuck shader on them... because they are a free unity character model with a dumb fuck shader on them. And whoever allowed those "Stealth" sections to see the light of day should be tried for a federal offense. How the fuck are you gonna have a stealth section where you A. Can't crouch B. Can't out run/out maneuver the monster C. Have a piss poor checkpoint system, and D. are stuck in a tiny ass room with it, searching random fucking drawers for dumb fuck notes that are required to progress.
The storyline is immediately apparent from the first 20 seconds and the voice actor sounds like the devs woke him up at 4am, kicked him in the chest, handed him a mic and yelled "READ IT QUIETER DAMMIT!!" every time he tried to show emotion. The game also spells out its themes like you're the slowest chimpanzee who's still working through pre-k for the 20th year in a row.
It's a combination of copy and pasted ideas from better games and movies, without a single original idea in sight. Silent Hill, Observer, Layers of Fear, Amnesia, The Shining, Stranger Things, Repulsion (though I doubt the devs have even seen that movie with how embarrassing their "homage" was) nothing is safe from this game's shameless imitations. It also looks like pure shit, and these devs need a quick lesson in Unity's post processing because apparently it's too fucking hard for these jugheads to figure out. You know the color grading is fucked when the fire looks grey.
Even the music is annoying and they probably would have been better suited to just let ol' Kevin Macleod do the honors. Seriously, nothing escapes the mindnumbingly awful brush that these unimaginative paste eaters smear over every inch of the experience. How Wired Productions picked this up to publish is beyond me.
If I could give this 0 stars, I would. But since I can't do that, I guess it gets half a star for turning on when I hit the play button.
Incompetently designed from start to finish with gameplay mostly consisting of walking into a room, turning on a light, picking up notes devoid of subtlety, and then being confused for 3 minutes trying to figure out wtf the game wants you to do. The enemy design is laughable at best and pitiful at worst without a single moment of tension existing at any point during the experience. Most of the "enemies" just stand there doing nothing, looking like a free unity model with a dumb fuck shader on them... because they are a free unity character model with a dumb fuck shader on them. And whoever allowed those "Stealth" sections to see the light of day should be tried for a federal offense. How the fuck are you gonna have a stealth section where you A. Can't crouch B. Can't out run/out maneuver the monster C. Have a piss poor checkpoint system, and D. are stuck in a tiny ass room with it, searching random fucking drawers for dumb fuck notes that are required to progress.
The storyline is immediately apparent from the first 20 seconds and the voice actor sounds like the devs woke him up at 4am, kicked him in the chest, handed him a mic and yelled "READ IT QUIETER DAMMIT!!" every time he tried to show emotion. The game also spells out its themes like you're the slowest chimpanzee who's still working through pre-k for the 20th year in a row.
It's a combination of copy and pasted ideas from better games and movies, without a single original idea in sight. Silent Hill, Observer, Layers of Fear, Amnesia, The Shining, Stranger Things, Repulsion (though I doubt the devs have even seen that movie with how embarrassing their "homage" was) nothing is safe from this game's shameless imitations. It also looks like pure shit, and these devs need a quick lesson in Unity's post processing because apparently it's too fucking hard for these jugheads to figure out. You know the color grading is fucked when the fire looks grey.
Even the music is annoying and they probably would have been better suited to just let ol' Kevin Macleod do the honors. Seriously, nothing escapes the mindnumbingly awful brush that these unimaginative paste eaters smear over every inch of the experience. How Wired Productions picked this up to publish is beyond me.
If I could give this 0 stars, I would. But since I can't do that, I guess it gets half a star for turning on when I hit the play button.
PZT
1 year ago