Posted on: September 30, 2017
WarlockOne
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Nicely crafted, overstays its welcome
I should begin by making the blasphemous statement that 75% of the game's tension flies out the window if you turn down speakers or take off headphones. Some will say that doing such a thing in a horror game is the player cheating themselves. But I think it's fair to note that the game gets a lot of mileage out of sudden crashes and musical stings, and it gets stale. It's an old trick- you can startle me by yelling in my ear, and make me uncomfortable in the knowledge that you might do it again, but that doesn't really build into anything richer. At least one other reviewer mentioned the "Silent Hill" series, and my memory is that those games managed to create a sense of dread, of wrongness, without jumping up and yelling "boo!" To its credit, the game does manage to fashion some of that sense of dread and wrongness. It's just that that richer horror is undercut by the jump-scares. It's like the designers said, "You know, of course, that the only real monster is man. And we have put you in the shoes of just such a monster... But in case that doesn't grab you, here's some ghosts. Wooooo!" The game is not without its cleverness. Some of the visual design is nice; the sense of things changing because you are or aren't looking at them is its best trick. There are moments, like the multi-story telephone puzzle, that will remain in my memory for a time. But I was only about two-thirds through before I started thinking, "Could you please just show me where the next trigger to advance is hiding, please?" That sense of weariness, combined with the game's themes of despair, make it increasingly hard to care about self-preservation. "Okay, I'm going to move towards the scary thing if that will pick up the pace. Oh, did that "kill" me? Did I just "die"?... Should I care...?" A few bugs, some awkward interface manipulations and the like, and the protagonist's limping pace don't help. There are worse ways to spend six hours and a sale price, but I wasn't infatuated.
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