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[BACKLOGGD = BEATEN BUT NOT FROM 2021]
Playing every 2021 game I can get my hands on, on a quest for the best.
5 - Wouldn't Change A Thing
4.5 - A Favorite
4 - Loved
3.5 - Really Liked
3 - Liked
2.5 - Indifferent
2 - Bored / Had Problems
1.5 - Disliked
1 - Hated
0.5 - Nothing Redeemable
[BACKLOGGD = BEATEN BUT NOT FROM 2021]
Playing every 2021 game I can get my hands on, on a quest for the best.
5 - Wouldn't Change A Thing
4.5 - A Favorite
4 - Loved
3.5 - Really Liked
3 - Liked
2.5 - Indifferent
2 - Bored / Had Problems
1.5 - Disliked
1 - Hated
0.5 - Nothing Redeemable
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Being part of the Backloggd community for 3 years
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Imprecise & floaty controls, some of the messiest color clashing pixel art I've seen in a long time, and a gameplay loop with a misunderstanding of what makes speedrunning enjoyable so every stage hazard is a momentum halting annoyance. The cute main character sprite and real good music couldn't save this game from itself.
Bloober Team's highest budget game yet succeeds and fails to equal degrees.
On the plus side. the Beksiński inspired horror imagery is consistently good and occasionally stunning, and traversing through the Niwa resort is an exercise in great atmospheric level design. Unfortunately, the game fumbles with a protagonist that's way too chatty and a narrative that is so inconsistent that by the ending I pretty much lost interest entirely, but ymmv.
The dual realities are an awkward storytelling gimmick more often than anything else, for every cool moment of traversal there's a cutscene that has characters on one half of the screen and stilted empty-room drama class pantomiming from the protagonist on the other.
It's a fine game. It's way more Life Is Strange than it is Silent Hill, and I don't think that's what they were going for. However, there's enough good stuff here to say that if you're ever in the mood for a short spooky narrative driven adventure, you could do worse than The Medium.
On the plus side. the Beksiński inspired horror imagery is consistently good and occasionally stunning, and traversing through the Niwa resort is an exercise in great atmospheric level design. Unfortunately, the game fumbles with a protagonist that's way too chatty and a narrative that is so inconsistent that by the ending I pretty much lost interest entirely, but ymmv.
The dual realities are an awkward storytelling gimmick more often than anything else, for every cool moment of traversal there's a cutscene that has characters on one half of the screen and stilted empty-room drama class pantomiming from the protagonist on the other.
It's a fine game. It's way more Life Is Strange than it is Silent Hill, and I don't think that's what they were going for. However, there's enough good stuff here to say that if you're ever in the mood for a short spooky narrative driven adventure, you could do worse than The Medium.