Scorn

J'ai l'impression que beaucoup de personnes ayant mis des avis négatifs s'attendait à un tout autre jeu, pourtant en regardant les trailers ça se voit que le jeu allait être une expérience bizarre et dérangeante, qui sort des sentiers battus. Fini en 5h même en ayant pris le temps, mais ce n'est pas un point négatif selon moi. Dans Super Meat Boy, l'histoire est un prétexte au gameplay, ici le gameplay est un prétexte pour l'atmosphère et la contemplation. je ne joue jamais à des jeux horrifiques donc c'est peut-être pour ça que j'étais à fond dans l'ambiance pesante, angoissante et qui te fais un nœud au ventre. Mention à la bande son et au sound design impeccables. Et l'histoire n'a pas à être un roman, ce type de narration convient très bien à la volonté du jeu.

This is a finely sculpted horror-scape, and it really is sculpted, absolutely every surface and animation was done in the art style. The developers put an incredible amount of work into this, and they told a story with no speech or writing. All you have is interaction, which all involves you and everything around you causing suffering, sometimes to helpless victims. The bio-mechanical aspect of it was breathtaking, with references to Giger's erotic art incorporated into the last section, though there are hints of it in earlier visuals. The puzzles reminded me a bit of earlier Tomb Raider games, a sort of "how do I get this to there" scenario, and they gave a good framework to explore the environment and get in its mindset. The combat was done in a sort of Resident Evil style, where ammo and health are limited, so every enemy makes you contemplate whether you have enough time to place a hit that counts, and often you'll see something and run away, so the enemies are more there to create tension than a challenge to overcome - you never overcome in this game, only suffering wins. All of the game kind of feels like a sick joke played on you by environment, which is, after all, alive, by all appearances. I really love this game, I think to create this much of a horror-scape in any medium is an achievement, and I'm so glad this exists. I think it's a great contribution to horror as an art-form.

Get in with no expectations and you will be amazed on how well it plays its cards. No wonder it was hard to be promoted in a way that made sense for people.

On the bad side, it gives motion sickeness, too much camera swinging and lag between key presses and movement response. Also it lacks an always run option.

I was really drawn into the game, but at the beginning it had a bigger atmosphere, puzzles, choices, omnipresent "meat". Then the creators probably ran out of ideas :(