Posted on: September 21, 2015
Ometecuhtli
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Beautiful game marred by bad design
LBA was the brainchild of Alone in the dark's creator, the first truly successful survival horror game on any platform. Albeit of an entirely different nature, players of both games can easily spot the similitudes: controls, music, and art direction. I haven't finished Alone in the dark but it is a game I enjoyed despite all its flaws and shortcomings, my vision not truly colored by nostalgia since I only played the second one when originally released and 3rd briefly. But I did play and finish LBA2 in its original CD-ROM form, a much more polished version in this games' evolutionary progression, if you will. Well, somehow along this fine line of games some bad decisions were made, and it appears none hits more painfully than in this one. It's a break or (not break?) case for the player so if you're still with me I'll explain what bothers me about this game: First and most notably is the save system, which consists of copying of a game save, which is more of an archival save, since you don't continue auto saving on that copy, but on the original one you loaded. Loading a saved game will then overwrite its contents, which due to the awkward checkpoints when making a new copy it might not be where you just loaded your game, but another one! This bugged the hell of more than one gamer and it was heavily criticized when it was originally released, so it's not a case of "games weren't that good in this aspect" problem. It's also surprising how easy you get caught/killed in the beginning, and the fact that every time you lose a life you need to get out of prison again. Normally you expect a game to start easily on you but this one makes it clear from the beginning it means serious business. Tank controls weren't that bad imo, but it gets screwed when you run into things because you lose health, and since enemies do respawn I found myself playing it a lot more defensively than I did in its survival horror spiritual predecessor. Judge for yourself if I made a fair point
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