Tormented Souls

You could say Tormented Souls is pastiche. Yeah. I guess it’s pastiche, but that idea has some negative connotations in my mind because “pastiche” is the wet newspaper of words. I hope you feel just as negative about it because if you don’t then I’m going to need to write a new introduction. I’m not going to write a new introduction. There’s nothing negative here, just some adjustments you need to make. Tormented Souls is a great survival horror game, and I’m not just saying that because the hobby I’ve been passionate about since childhood has been dismantled by sceptic speculators over the last fifteen years. Tormented Souls is such excellent pastiche of the fifth and six generation survival horror genre that, if it wasn’t lacquered in the unity engine, you wouldn’t be able to tell it was released recently. It even has the same shortfalls. Dual Effect were so thorough in their imitation that they didn’t just recreate the mistakes of the genre, they seemingly recreated them by accident. You just don’t see that kind of earnestness anymore.

I think this had some of the best survival horror puzzles of all time outside of a single music puzzle. The combat isn't special, but it does a great job of giving you just enough resources to get through everyone. Overall, really solid.

excellent masterpiece

amazing

I tried this game three times now. The biggest problem of the game is in my opinion that it does not allow to save more often. Your saves are very limited and if you die you have to replay large portions (up to ~20 minutes playtime). This is especially bad combined with how buggy the game is, which makes you die even though you did everything right. So here are my three runs: First run I just died in an instant death trap, there is NO save point in the game at this point at all, so I had to restart the game from the beginning. Even though many cutscenes are skippable, there is still a lot of interaction you need to do before the game really starts. Very annoying. On my second run I reached the first save point and got to the first enemies. Could defeat some but again, for a long time no save point. I messed up and died (my mistake I admit, no criticism here). Third run I thought well okay now that I know where the enemies are, I can do this. And I did really well, I almost managed to reach the save point without even taking any damage, but there are two enemies guarding the save room and after defeating the first enemy and shooting the second enemy to the ground, suddenly I could not finish off the second enemy anymore, the crowbar wouldn't connect and the nail gun behaved as if there was no enemy left in the room (it usually auto-aims). The enemy could just kill me from full heath without me being able to do anything. Might give the game another try if the developer fixes this issue. I will say this game is definitely NOT for Silent Hill lovers, as other reviews claim. Silent Hill has pretty frequent save points and you can save however often you want and you're also not limited with inventory and SH tends to give tons of resources. Tormented Souls also has no difficulty selection at all. I would say it's more for people who like Resident Evil.