Edited on: September 30, 2025
Posted on: September 30, 2025
LordPatronAstraeus
Verified ownerGames: 272 Reviews: 46
No Real Catharsis at the End...
Took me just a little bit over 7 hours, over the course of 2 evenings, to finish... I think I'm gonna take a break from Narrative-Adventure games, as a genre, for awhile... It's like, after awhile of writing the script for the game, they figured out their plot wasn't all that deep, so they peppered in a bunch of unnecessary mini-games, quicktime events, chase scenes, and puzzles to fill in the runtime. The rhythm games are pointless, because the GOG version of the game doesn't have the achievements implemented for scoring well, and there are no changes to the story whether you perform well or perform poorly, anyway. The plot twist we see at the end of Act IV, I suspected from the very beginning since the character was first introduced way back in Act I, and if our protagonist wasn't completely STUPID, the game could've ENDED at the end of Act IV, but bad writing choices at the end of Act IV lead to the plot continuing into Act V; it was just really contrived. Long story short, the whole point of this story, if there even was one, was that Gloria just needed to remember that she was the strong, independent woman she always was, and just pick herself up by her Big Girl Panties, and Girlboss against The Patriarchy. There's a lot of derelict imagery to visually symbolize the state of her life; we GET it, the crashed subway train in HELL is supposed to represent her feelings about how her life has hit the skids, WE GET IT! Couldn't have BEEN more cliche... It really is just a MISERY simulator; want to know what it'd feel like to be wrongfully held hostage in someone else's basement for an extended period of time? (Oh, wait, I'm having flashbacks to 2020, all of a sudden...) Then THIS is YOUR game! Honestly, though, what kind of woman has nightmares about Hell Mouths and Cthulhu Eyeball Tentacles, anyway...?
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