Posted on: November 22, 2020

Bocarnea

Jeux: 68 Avis: 1

Instant fun horror game

Short review : Carrion is a great, well thought game that is instantly fun and will make you feel great. If you like ramming pedestrians in GTA, you'll probably like this game. ------ I got Carrion after seeing its trailer during one of the many videogames conferences last year because it looked amazing and fun, playing this blob of sentient flesh spreading chaos and destruction on its path : it feels exactly like that playing the game. Great sensations moving using tentacles, it feels & works great. The visuals are superb, whether it is the environment, the dismembering effects splattering blood all around or the monster itself. Same thing for the audio, the screams, the crushing sounds, the music, the ambient noise, everything makes you feel like the eldricht beast you're playing, roaming in the darkness, waiting for the innocent scientist to get in the range of your tentacles. Being so powerful does not mean you can freely go as you want, you sometimes have to take your time to survive. It's a perfect balance of chaotic fun, wrecking havoc and difficulty so you don't feel like whatever you're doing, it would have been the same. The puzzles you encounter are rather nice as well, and never feel like a drag. As other people said, I understand that it wouldn't make sense for a monster to look at map but as you progress in the game, not knowing where you have to go became increasingly tiring, : man, I just wanted to split some dude in half. Easy 5-stars

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Posted on: June 14, 2022

Thinking_of_-----

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Jeux: 161 Avis: 5

Fantastic for what it is

You play as a monster. You slaughter humans using a mix of guile and brute force. You eat them to regenerate health and to grow bigger and stronger, and you make your way through the levels using all your abilities to chomp on humans and solve puzzles. If this sounds appealing to you, this game is is going to be great fun. The game is pretty engaging throughout its fairly short campaign. The fights never feel dull or unfair. The puzzles tickle your brain just enough to be challenging but are never difficult to the point of slowing you down too much. I don't really like the pixel-y art, but even with my taste it looks pretty decent, and the soundtrack is quite good as well. My main point of criticsm is the lacklustre AI. These guys can definitely tear you to pieces, but they're also quite dumb. They respond to you in the most rudimentary ways. If they have a gun, they'll shoot you if they see you. If they don't, they'll scream and run away. But they never act like humans. They don't try to flush you out of hiding, they don't call their buddies to help. They never try to trap you. They don't hide. Each NPC has their own patrol pattern and they stick to it regardless of what happens. The fights can still get quite challenging due to their sheer firepower, but they could be so much more. I would've also liked for the game world to be easier to navigate (it's fine if you don't have a map but why not add signage?) and dull voice acting. It'd be much more fun to tear people to pieces if you could hear them panick, call for help, beg for their lives etc. Anyway, as the title says, it's great for what it is. A modest game, with a modest runtime and a modest price tag, especially on sale. I enjoyed my time with it, and I think you will too if the first paragraph sounds appealing to you. I hope someone makes a Triple A version of this, with 3D graphics, more varied voice acting, and great AI. It would be great.

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Posted on: October 17, 2022

CY63R_G0R3

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Jeux: 162 Avis: 3

Amazing, Short, Unique

Title says it all. It's super short so I'd recommend getting it on sale. But it's an amazing horror game that I think everyone should play. Spent the 8 hours to 100% it.

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Posted on: August 5, 2023

DwellerDark

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Jeux: 164 Avis: 9

CARRION: A Neat Little Game

CARRION, despite its short length and sometimes confusing navigation, is a pretty neat indie title. The way the "Spaghetti Monster" moves is satisfying, as are its abilities you use to complete objectives and unlock the next area. The aesthetic and artwork is amazing, as well as the soundtrack, done by Cris Velasco (you might know him as one of the Mass Effect 2 composers). CARRION is also light on system requirements and runs fantastically on my laptop, so it'll probably run well on anything that can support the minimum system requirements. It also doesn't take up much space, akin to any old sidescroller/platformer from the 90s. As for any criticism, I think a map system would have made navigation and the necessary backtracking a little less confusing, but there are walkthroughs and fan-made stuff online to help. Additionally, being able to pan the camera further than the monster would have helped as well, considering you sometimes have to edge closer to enemies than you want to in order to see a switch or something on the far side of the room. And as for notes and my final thoughts on CARRION, it's worth noting that the offline installer includes 2 DLL files for GOG Galaxy that can cause trouble if Galaxy isn't installed, but they can be safely deleted. The GOG forum for CARRION has a post that mentions this, so look for that. As well, don't be afraid to consult a guide if you get confused, there isn't much lore to spoil and you'll have less of a headache if you do. Anyway, CARRION is a fantastic game if you want something short and retro/indie, or something easy to run. Something you can play to break the monotony of long, drawn-out modern games, whether you're doing so casually or streaming it for other people. You'd be surprised how fun it is playing as a man-eating spaghetti monster.

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Posted on: August 19, 2024

Danyboi

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Jeux: 57 Avis: 5

Feel like The Thing

Honestly, I get why people don't like the navigation in this game. I find it confusing, and I love mazes in old FPS. That said, it does help with the feeling of being an alien mess of flesh, just going with the flow not understanding where you are going. Makes for an annoying completionist rerun, but that really isn't the vibe of this game, and it's not annoying enough to ruin the amazing fun I had in the first run. Genuinely, one of the best games I've ever played.

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