I want to love this game so much, but I can’t cause it’s the most frustrating and disappointing experience that I had recently.
There is a review from user Zenoslime.
He/she noted that this game brings that long forgot feeling of going into something unknown, frightening, and exciting. Like booting up the first time Doom 3 and being blown away by the dynamic shadows, or Unreal 2 and its lighting or Soldiers of Fortune advanced gore disembodiment system. Something that I’ve never seen.
These days, when the game industry mostly goes thru safes tropes, the project like this feels like a fresh air. New unused aesthetic and just beyond of sanity attention to details and art style sells this game. Fantastic music and sound design.
Visually and from atmospheric perspective- it’s a gem.
Until the player got introduced to the shooting and hide and seek mechanics in the mid game.
What’s the point of all environments and the atmosphere crafted by insane visual design, if I can’t suck it in, because I got chased by another annoying enemy?
The shooter aspect of the game ruined most of the experience for me.
I had a moment when I moved to a new level with one life bar. And the only way to move forward was thru the enemy. I spent an hour or so in order to make it. Then I somehow missed one of the weapons so the whole game I couldn’t kill some of the monster cause I had only melee weapon which is mostly useless.
And As I said, all these unnecessary shooting mechanics took me out of the atmosphere and the environment. I wanted to look at the damn walls and think how many hours designers spent on this rather than being chased by an annoying monster and running around the level, without seeing what the level is.
Take out all the shooting stuff, add more puzzles and we would get an amazing game.
But all these half-baked, half-thought aspects damage the overall experience in the experience-type game.
Such a shame.
There are so many amazing things in this game and also many frustrating ones.
I wish good luck to the developers. I believe they have huge potential and talent.
update: I couldn't kill the last boss, so I finished the game on YouTube. So instead of 2.5 stars - I'm lowering it to 2.
The shooting mechanics are just stupidly annoying and uninteresting.
There is a review from user Zenoslime.
He/she noted that this game brings that long forgot feeling of going into something unknown, frightening, and exciting. Like booting up the first time Doom 3 and being blown away by the dynamic shadows, or Unreal 2 and its lighting or Soldiers of Fortune advanced gore disembodiment system. Something that I’ve never seen.
These days, when the game industry mostly goes thru safes tropes, the project like this feels like a fresh air. New unused aesthetic and just beyond of sanity attention to details and art style sells this game. Fantastic music and sound design.
Visually and from atmospheric perspective- it’s a gem.
Until the player got introduced to the shooting and hide and seek mechanics in the mid game.
What’s the point of all environments and the atmosphere crafted by insane visual design, if I can’t suck it in, because I got chased by another annoying enemy?
The shooter aspect of the game ruined most of the experience for me.
I had a moment when I moved to a new level with one life bar. And the only way to move forward was thru the enemy. I spent an hour or so in order to make it. Then I somehow missed one of the weapons so the whole game I couldn’t kill some of the monster cause I had only melee weapon which is mostly useless.
And As I said, all these unnecessary shooting mechanics took me out of the atmosphere and the environment. I wanted to look at the damn walls and think how many hours designers spent on this rather than being chased by an annoying monster and running around the level, without seeing what the level is.
Take out all the shooting stuff, add more puzzles and we would get an amazing game.
But all these half-baked, half-thought aspects damage the overall experience in the experience-type game.
Such a shame.
There are so many amazing things in this game and also many frustrating ones.
I wish good luck to the developers. I believe they have huge potential and talent.
update: I couldn't kill the last boss, so I finished the game on YouTube. So instead of 2.5 stars - I'm lowering it to 2.
The shooting mechanics are just stupidly annoying and uninteresting.