It feels like I'm playing a game from the director of The Fantastic Mr. Fox. My wife and I are laughing regularly at the humor, and I am absolutely in love with the motion of the claymation characters and the enviornments they exist in. Absolutely wonderful.
This is the classic Tetris-like game from the N64 era 'Wetrix' -- running in Dosbox. Works great on a modern machine, and even looks solid in 'fullscreen' mode on a 4k monitor. No special enhancements as far as I know. This is the original game, and seemingly here is GoG is the only way to legally obtain it these days. Doesn't seem to have controller support, but the mouse support is a fair substitute for the N64 controllers I played this game on back in the day. If this was on your radar because you remember it fondly from back in the day, this is a solid way to play it.
What more needs to be said? If you enjoyed the main story, you'll almost certainly enjoy this continuation too.
About 10 hours in, absolutely loving everytning about it, from the music, the magic system, the enviornments, characters, worldbuilding, the ability to climb enemies -- it's all come together in a fantastic package that I cannot recommend enough!
Pre-ordered the standard edition on Steam, then gave into the dark temptation to buy it again as the fancy Deluxe Edition with the art book to support the release coming out on GOG, cuz hell yea. I've probably played the original Silent Hill 2 half a dozen times, and this has got my full-on seal of approval. Graphics are fantastic, atmosphere is on point-- and combat is visceral enough that my wife has been legit shrieking when an enemies pops out, and not stopping until she's fully pipped the thing to death. Fantastic experience all round.
The music, vibes, and general and nature of the main game is on point, but man oh man are those NPC sections making me laugh way harder than I would have expected
It's the game I played as a kid, but improved in every way for modern systems with high refresh monitors. The ability to switch between the new rendering and old school rendering is a nice touch, and really drives home just how much has changed, even though you'd swear the game *looks* just like it did back in the 90s! If you've never played the game before, I'd say get it on sale. If you played this game way back in the day, I'd say it's worth it full price to support this kind of preservation effort.
The vibes are so on point. I absolutely loved this story! Bought it on Steam, and liked it so much after beating it, I bought it again for a DRM-free copy. The atmosphere is straight up fantastic, the characters are fun, and the story was great to follow. This isn't a game where you'll make a ton of branching choices -- this is an experience with a story to tell.
If you let the (pretty excellent) voice acted lines play, this game'll take you 6-7 hours to see the story through, DLC not included. I really enjoyed my time with the main story, pecking away at this visual novel over a course of weeks, savoring it like I would good 'regular' novel. I'm definitely looking forward to starting the DLC next, and I liked the soundtrack enough that I actually *just* purchased a few minutes before writing this review -- juuust having completed the main game tonight. That aside, I'm really appreciating that the main characters are all college aged in this (kinda rare in this genre, in my experience), and their troubles and concerns feel well thought out.
As someone who grew up on the original build engine games, this is probably my favorite build engine game. It rocks all the way up to the end, and I'm pretty sure I'll play it again eventually to get more of the secret areas I missed the first time through.
