Posted on: August 3, 2018

bloodrayne8

Игр: 34 Отзывов: 1

Delightfully ethereal game

This game is a beautifully dark adventure. The characters, artistry, sound and music made for a beautifully crafted tale well worth hours spent solving its wonderfully challenging puzzles. The game mechanics are very interesting and unique as characters frequent other realities and perspectives putting a unique spin on the game. I was looking for a puzzle game similar to The Room from Fireproof Games and this did not disappoint, I am looking forward to more from Killmonday.

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Posted on: March 9, 2017

fahbs

Владелец игры

Игр: 354 Отзывов: 90

Where the atmospheric becomes rote

Fran Bow is essentially Alice in Wonderland (or maybe more Return to Oz) meets Silent Hill. Early on, the central mechanic is introduced where you use your pills item to enter the dark world, much like Silent Hill. Except Silent Hill used the dark world as part of the story, and had you enter and exit it at fixed times in order to maintain pacing and allow you to explore each. In Fran Bow, you instantly enter the dark world at any time with the pills, then instantly leave it. It's creepy maybe the first 2 times you do it, but it becomes boring fast. The game quickly boils down into "enter room, search for action hotspots, takes pills, search dark world version of room for new hot spots, exit dark world". Repeat for every single room. Worse, with very few exceptions, the dark world is just lazy. Most of the locations are exactly the same in the dark world, but with just a couple pools of blood added, and characters replaced with corpses. The game experience boils down to "New room new character, take pills, yeah yeah blood and a corpse oh a new item take that, back to normal world yawn what's next?" What should be an atmospheric mechanic instead is reduced to Arkham Asylum's detective vision. There really aren't any meaty puzzles either. Most of them are just using an item or lever that only exists in the dark world with no additional thinking required. As if to balance this out, there is one total bullshit puzzle (hospital door combination) that, even after looking at the solution, still made no sense at all. The game is also all over the place tonally. It starts in a mental hospital where the dark world contrasts with the mundane ordinary one, but then shifts into an Alice in Wonderland weird forest, yet retains the dark world mechanic even though the dark world is hardly any different. In the end, Fran Bow doesn't know what it wants to be, unsuccessfully melds mechanics with atmosphere, and offers no puzzle meat to prop it all up.

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Posted on: October 26, 2021

Olkatrollka

Игр: 72 Отзывов: 18

Отлична игра

Несколько лет назад играла, очень понравилась, триллер, приключение, психодел

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Posted on: December 26, 2024

kazehikaru_

Владелец игры

Игр: 2 Отзывов: 1

Gothic, mysterious and addictive

I started playing this game since I was looking for something horror-ish. I wasn't looking for jumpscares, heart-racing scenes and fear: what I wanted was a game with a mysterious storyline, secrets to find out and obscure yet peculiar and interesting art style. Fran Bow was exactly what I was looking for! During the whole journey you're left wondering what is real and what isn't, while exploring different realms and solving riddles and puzzles. The reason why I'm giving it 4 stars instead of five is related to my personal taste: the first half of the game is quite twisted, the themes are dark and sensitive and the characters' stories are pretty obscure, which I actually loved. The second half of the game is more similar to a dark fantasy game, which I didn't mind but didn't adore either. Still, I really enjoyed this game and I would probably play it again!

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Posted on: January 18, 2025

PeculiarPiglet

Владелец игры

Игр: 16 Отзывов: 1

Amazing game

Beautiful graphics, as well as a very immersive plotline! Great click and point game.

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