chiphead99
2024
2023
2013
2023
As someone who has played the PS3 version before, this remake, while sometimes takes away from the visual style of the original game, is overall much more enjoyable to play due to the constant locked frame rate and better controls. I still enjoy this version’s take on a more realistic world as well, and sometimes it brings beauty that we couldn’t really grasp in the original game. I absolutely love SotC to death, thanks to its wonderful simple but great story, its minimalistic but mysterious world, and the powerful yet satisfying bosses. While I will say ICO is my favorite of the trilogy, SotC is a super close second and still a must play for anyone!
2022
A game with a good story that is underwhelming due to its simplistic puzzles and moment-to-moment gameplay. Even other games like Limbo and Inside, while also simple, don’t go on for too long with puzzles or interesting gameplay mechanics that help the player stay engage, while here, it feels like you do simplistic puzzles every few minutes followed by more walking.
2016
2012
Holy hell, I think I found a new Sega franchise I can add to my list of favorite Sega franchises, up there with Super Monkey Ball. One of the most visually interesting and fun concepts for a game. While the controls are really tough to master I was able to get a handle on it, but the map for the game was pretty awful.
Love the creepy atmosphere, the way this game trickles lore rather than dumping lore on you in later games, and how the animatronics are actually creepy and hard to fight off at times. However the games dragged down how sometimes it does come down to luck to win the game, and some mechanics aren’t really explained to much so you have to die a few nights to understand some stuff like how Freddy operates.
2016
Not as great as Flower or Journey. While the game has the wonderful atmosphere, story, vagueness, music, and beauty, the fumbles on one aspect that previous games similar devs worked on, movement. The pace of movement and overall enjoyment of moving around from Flower and Journey is replaced with extremely slow swimming. While you can latch on to animals, it still feels awkward and varies on how useful each is.
2023