Posted on: January 31, 2022
bqwert1
Verified ownerGames: 289 Reviews: 17
Should have been a lot better
This game has great atmosphere and a cool story with a meta, 4th wall breaking theme, which is done often but rarely in an intelligent and interesting way as it is here. In those elements, Bad Dream: Fever is decidely superior to Bad Cream: Coma. But, man, the gameplay is bad. It's such a shame, because with less incredibly frustrating gameplay it would be 4 or 5 stars probably. As it is, I can't recommend it. The gameplay is basically this, over and over. There are a handful of locations and a number of separate areas within each of these locations. They're all filled with random items all over the place. You can't interact with any of this stuff until you reach a point in the game where you need a specific item, usually only having a vague idea what item will actually be usable in the sometimes moon-logicky solutions to the puzles. Then one random piece of this junk scattered somewhere randomly in the dozens of separate screens becomes clickable and needs to be picked up to advance the game. Over and over, you're told you now need to find, say for example, replacement keypad keys for a security panel. You have no clue where you might find something like that. So you just start going back through all the locations scanning the screen with your mouse pointer like the worst kind of old school adventure game pixel hunting to find some random objects somewhere that you couldn't interact with before but now you can. It's so aggravating. And sometimes, you don't even need a specific object; you just need to wander around through prior locations until some story beat triggers. It gets so aggravating, that about halfway thru I just kept a walkthrough open all the time while playing, and instead of wandering around scanning every prior locaiton top to bottom just started consulting it pretty much immediately each time I was told I needed to find some random item in some random locaion that previously couldn't be clicked on but now can.
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