Tormentum: Dark Sorrow

The game looks incredible. Characters, locations, everything's top notch. Puzzles are fairly easy, which means you can finish the game quite quickly. But at least there are some decisions to make which influence (interesting) ending. Very enjoyable game.

The artwork is good and the game is imaginative. Game play is simple and you'll rarely get stuck. It's great that many puzzles are actual logic puzzles, even though they are usually too easy. It's not too long either. What I didn't like is the atmosphere. I believed it would be the game's main strength but instead it's one of the main weaknesses. At least I get a bit thrown off when suddenly I have to play a game of memory (the board game) to solve a puzzle in some kind of forgotten tomb. Memory just brings memories of childhood to me. It's the last game except for Monopoly I'd expect to play in hell. They made several such strange choices that ruin the atmosphere. Dialogue is mostly kind of bad too. It may partially be because of the translator. I just think a lot of it sounds like bad poetry. See one of the screen shots here on the product page for an example. "It is easier for a thousand crows to fly through a fiery mountain than it is for you to pass safely through my entrails, wretched human!" A lot of the dialogue is similar. None of the dialogue sounds natural to me. The characters are all extremely flat even if the dialogue had been good. I wouldn't buy it except for during a sale and/or if you feel drawn to the visual art style. At times it's a solid 3 but most of the time it feels kind of bland. I'm very close to give it a 2.

The whole setup of the game would be what is presented at the first act: you get 3 coins of life&death aka. good&evil, and if you have more of this or that, you get that ending. The final part of the game is on top of that is a choice of picking the key fitting to your alignment, so there should be three ending: - good people picking the good key - evil people picking the evil key - picking the key not matching your alignment (based on your actions). This makes the game loose one point for me.

Good looking, moody point and click game, with an unforeseen ending. Unfortunately the trip to get there was lackluster.

One of the best game you'll ever play.