This review contains spoilers
cw: incest, sa
fear 2 is certainly a weird time. there's so many baffling decisions made for this game that just do not work well. I could ramble on about the various issues I have with its combat (they nerfed the shotgun so hard it's barely usable. I chose not to run it.) but none of that really matters to me as much as describing the dumbass ending
at the end of the game you get to the facility holding alma wade the scary LITTLE GIRL running around the first two games. your companion that's been with you the whole game dies unceremoniously, and then alma literally sa's you (the little girl, remember. although they do age her up I guess? she's a fully grown woman when she does this thank god.) and then you like die or something after she becomes impregnated, and it's like what the fuck is even going on anymore.
it's weird, and not in the fun horror game way. there's multiple decisions made with alma in this game that are just creepy. first off, just as a refresher, alma was a little girl who was forcefully impregnated and tortured by her father her entire life. your player character is one of her two sons. so not only does a character who has almost exclusively appeared as a little girl who is also your mom fucking ride you, you then see her with a belly bump and it's just so bizarre. like yup, you came in your mom who was a torture slave her entire life.
it's weird, and it's not at all something you would want to end a game on. sex horror is not something that should be completely off the table, but this felt so needlessly edgy and just stupid. it didn't make me feel uncomfortable or give me that sick to your stomach feeling good horror does. the only emotion it elicited in me was "that was so fucking stupid"
oh, I also forgot to mention, alma, your mom, your rapist, torture and sa victim, who is mainly a little girl, has like fan service in this game? and that might be one of the worst bits of this entire thing. she has two adult forms: gross and 'sexy'. her sexy form gives her a fat ass and a bigger chest. you can argue the ending is supposed to be gross, and maybe that was the initial plan, but giving her a dumptruck ass feels like it's working against that idea, and the ending is supposed to be 'hot'.
this game doesn't upset me, even if this review may seem like it does. it's just so needlessly edgy i had to talk about it. if you wanted a woman monster gamer bros wanted to fuck, that's fine, i'm a monster fucker too. but why make it alma? make a new monster, it's not like the alma stuff is done well here anyway, could have made the game more interesting, certainly less edgy. this game feels like it was written by a 15 year old trying to make something as edgy as possible. the gameplay is mid, the lore is quite honestly moronic, and fear 3 is somehow objectively worse. yippee. fear 1 still fucks though.
fear 2 is certainly a weird time. there's so many baffling decisions made for this game that just do not work well. I could ramble on about the various issues I have with its combat (they nerfed the shotgun so hard it's barely usable. I chose not to run it.) but none of that really matters to me as much as describing the dumbass ending
at the end of the game you get to the facility holding alma wade the scary LITTLE GIRL running around the first two games. your companion that's been with you the whole game dies unceremoniously, and then alma literally sa's you (the little girl, remember. although they do age her up I guess? she's a fully grown woman when she does this thank god.) and then you like die or something after she becomes impregnated, and it's like what the fuck is even going on anymore.
it's weird, and not in the fun horror game way. there's multiple decisions made with alma in this game that are just creepy. first off, just as a refresher, alma was a little girl who was forcefully impregnated and tortured by her father her entire life. your player character is one of her two sons. so not only does a character who has almost exclusively appeared as a little girl who is also your mom fucking ride you, you then see her with a belly bump and it's just so bizarre. like yup, you came in your mom who was a torture slave her entire life.
it's weird, and it's not at all something you would want to end a game on. sex horror is not something that should be completely off the table, but this felt so needlessly edgy and just stupid. it didn't make me feel uncomfortable or give me that sick to your stomach feeling good horror does. the only emotion it elicited in me was "that was so fucking stupid"
oh, I also forgot to mention, alma, your mom, your rapist, torture and sa victim, who is mainly a little girl, has like fan service in this game? and that might be one of the worst bits of this entire thing. she has two adult forms: gross and 'sexy'. her sexy form gives her a fat ass and a bigger chest. you can argue the ending is supposed to be gross, and maybe that was the initial plan, but giving her a dumptruck ass feels like it's working against that idea, and the ending is supposed to be 'hot'.
this game doesn't upset me, even if this review may seem like it does. it's just so needlessly edgy i had to talk about it. if you wanted a woman monster gamer bros wanted to fuck, that's fine, i'm a monster fucker too. but why make it alma? make a new monster, it's not like the alma stuff is done well here anyway, could have made the game more interesting, certainly less edgy. this game feels like it was written by a 15 year old trying to make something as edgy as possible. the gameplay is mid, the lore is quite honestly moronic, and fear 3 is somehow objectively worse. yippee. fear 1 still fucks though.