Posted on: October 14, 2022
tallybunny
Bestätigter BesitzerSpiele: 396 Rezensionen: 6
Less-Fun-Alien-Pac-Man
I tried very hard to like this game, and in the end, I couldn't. It's extremely pretty, visually. However, and mind that this is a personal opinion, it fails to deliver on a crucial aspect. Fun. This game simply wasn't fun for me. On the contrary. This game wants to scare you, desperately, but instead of resorting to a well rounded narrative to set it up, it relies instead on gimmicky game mechanics to attempt this feat. That is my main issue with this game, it never stops being a gimmick. It never lets you forget that you're playing a game, it never quite allows you to suspend your disbelief long enough for you to be sucked into the story. Now, in a game that is supposed to give you a few good scares, this is counter-productive. The story itself, is competent enough, but nothing to write home about. It feels tacked on and ultimately serves as just another excuse to take the player to the next, game, level. It actually feels like there are two different games here. One is the story driven one, that had to be there just to serve as base for the main game, and then the main event, a game of Less-Fun-Alien-Pac-Man. Perhaps the importance of these two elements should have been reversed, or better balanced at least. I kept thinking that if I could indeed get pulled in by the story and the ambient noises and all the visual goodness, this game would actually deliver in a big way. It would be genuinely frightening, and memorable. That would explain all the 5 star reviews, and I get it. If this game is for you, you will enjoy it a lot. Sadly, it's not for me. I wasn't scared, I was annoyed. Annoyed by the artificiality of the main game's mechanics, annoyed by the randomness of the alien and its unrealistic, player focused aggression. Ultimately annoyed by the game's inability to scare me, I guess. It's hard to be scared when you are constantly reminded that "this is only a gimmick", and to me, this is this game's greatest failure. It's simply not fun.
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