Posted on: January 4, 2022
MotherKojiro
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What Charm! WHAT Charm?
I kept hearing about this: it's weird; it's like Twin Peaks; it's one of the greatest stories ever told! I like Twin Peaks, and I love weird; sign me up! It started off well enough with a psychological dissection of Tom and Jerry (yes, that Tom and Jerry) played completely straight; it set a great tone... that was swiftly abandoned for... ever play 3D Zelda game where the humor is largely relegated to characters flailing their arms and going, "WUUUUoouuuuugh!!!"? It's that kind of "quirky". The actual story rides the line of reality for a while, but has horror sections that are somewhat explained at the end, but mostly exist to give it some actual gameplay with not quite enough thought as to how they fit in; the climax is so out-of-nowhere-off-the-rails that it could've been written by a completely different person. The characters aren't charming or interesting in a way that matters, and conversations are just awkward. A lot of times, the audio cues make no sense; you'll be discussing a grizzly murder and some goofy whistle song would play or something equally weird or inappropriate to the tone. It doesn't come off as weird or subversive, so much as extremely amateur; my lady and I used to love renting the worst horror movies we could find, and we'd usually enjoy them, but this just falls off the end of the scale. The worst part is that I learned most of this by watching a longplay; the PC port is a broken mess that frequently crashes to desktop. It took me an hour just to get it to run, 2 more hours to tweak it to the point where I could pass the intro, and before the end of the first chapter, I gave up, because I couldn't get past a certain cutscene, and it wasn't one of the more infamous crashes, so no help online. It plays well, at least; I was surprised at the mechanics, because Third-Person Shooters almost never feel good to me, but this felt alright. Still, I couldn't possibly recommend this on any merit.
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