Remothered: Broken Porcelain

If "Tormented fathers" was bizarre but kind of linear, "Broken porcelain" is all over the place in terms of plot structure, weapons, gaming options and superpowers. You can feel that behind every artístic decision there's ambition and a willingness to make a bigger and better game than "Tormented fathers" was, but at the end you just feel that the game is changing (not necessarily evolving) every 5 minutes just because. What works in a novel or a movie (multiple storylines, multiple points of view, going back and forth) not necessarily translates well into a videogame, and unfortunately this is the case with "Broken porcelain". The plot is ambitious and ambiguous, but that makes your experience as a player fluctuate, interrupting your game and your progress with ever changing and unexpected twists. First you dont have any superpowers, then you do have them, then you cannot use them, then they force you to use them, and you keep wondering: what the hell is going on? There's some bugs and the game is not polished (yet). Despite all these flaws, the game is emtertaining and, sometimes, successful too. It broadens "Tormented father" plot and goes in deep into some serious issues. Recommended only if you like to play with shattered glass: you never get the full picture, and you can cut yourself, but there's good ideas and an addictive plot in all this madness.

I really want to like this game. The atmosphere, the "steatlth" focussed gameplay, the graphics, sounds, the setting are some of the fators I'm enjoying. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, it seems like the creator of this game never played the finished product him/herself. There is in particular an infuriating issue with one of the 1st puzzles. This is a minor spoiler, believe me, but if you still want to experience the incompetence on display, be my guest, stop reading and play the game. So, for those that want to know, in the beginning you have to interact with a phone. next to the phone, is plainly written that you can't reach exterior numbers, only hotel room phones. Then you stumble uipon a closed safe, with a note mentionning an EXTERIOR number and other info. A sane person would deduce you can't call the number from that phone. So you search, and search, and search but nothing else works. So just by sheer disgust you finally go to the phone and dial the exterior number, and it works!... The number goes through, and an automated message gives you the master code for ALL OF THE SAFES. Besides the totally illogic fact you are not supposed to be able to reach exterior numbers, what safe company would print on its safes, a number that when freely called will give you a master code via an automated message? This makes no sense... Also, stealth is not always feasible, that means, brute forcing your way out is way more effective. Also, it is often difficult to perfom the action you want, meaning, the gameplay can be cumbersome. Finally, my last gripe is that there are way too many "defense items" that you can't distinguish from story driven items, and given that you can only bring 3 + 1 weapon wioth you, you will constantly switch items and get confused about what you have or not. Besides that, I can say I did not encounter any bugs and the game still draws me in as. Strange, this is not a bad game, it just needed more time/money/talent to make it complete justice.

I don't like first Remothered and I didn't play it but I truly like the second one. Everything it's simple. I liked the main heroine. So it's why I added the game to my wishlist in Steam from first announce past year :3 How I could understand, the game developed by a small studio. Therefore I was not very worried about the errors that occurred in the game. But what really surprised me it is a shorteness of this game. I was very dissapointed that the house so small. No puzzles or outfits for Gennifer. Only a couple enemies. I completed the game and was not necessary to use traps or other things. You need to use the bricks only one time when you need to fight against the boss and it's all. I also didn't like it when the characters changed. At least here. I didn't see the reason to play as Linn or Porcelain. It continues only a couple minutes and I didn't get the feelings that I played. It felt more that I became a part of cutscene. Also, we can't use the "nailer" in "a free game" but even so there no necessarity to use it there. The ending x_x It's a different story but I hoped for a "better end" in my understanding. And why did you provide to us a choice at the end? I guess there were no reason to do it. I watched the story and this game is not about "choose your path". But the main problem It's a shortness of this game and lack of content (outfits etc.) as for me. This game really looks more as a DLC for first Remothered to finish the main story. In any case I still like the game :3 Everything here is just my rough opinion so don't be mad :3 And yes, sorry for the my little English >_<

This is one janky experience but I still had fun. The story jumps around like crazy and it probably would have been better in order but it's not too bad. Froze up on me during a loading screen once but the autosaves are lenient. This is an adequate horror game.