I am really confused that this games gets these extremely good reviews. Because it lacks in more than one regard. First of all, the positiv things. The graphics look nice and the game builds a nice atmosphere visually. Also, the gameplay is satisfying at the beginning, when you've just started and grab your first weapon. But that's about everything positive i can say about this game. The writing, especially for a game that takes itself as serious as this one, is extremly stupid. The dialogues are bad, the characters behave totally unnatural and over the top "cool" and pretty much nothing makes sense and i'm not talking about stuff that's about to be revealed later on in the game. And aside from that pretty important part, the gameplay, which makes a pretty good first impression, shows alot of weaknesses after a few minutes. Every "level" is a short and extremly linear with alot of checkpoints. We found ourselves just running through the sections to the next checkpoint without bothering to kill anything inbetween because you don't save ammunition or health at the checkpoints and after you die and get reset to the last checkpoint, every enemy that may have chased you until then will be gone. Also, the "horror-elements" repeat themself and are as bland as a black hole. All in all we couldn't enjoy the game at all and got only angry about the bad writing and bored by the stupid gamedesign. I can't recommend this game to anybody who wants at least a bit of satisfaction, fun, horror or excitement when playing a game.
A few different heroes, everyone with one unique skill and five standart ones, battle for the most victory points. Every turn, you move to another city for an investigation plate and draw a card to make your character stronger until you eventually complete your quests and defeat a few monsters. The game is pretty simple and we learned everything there is half way through our first round without ever looking at any kind of instruction or tutorial. But the problem i have with this game, is that you pretty much play for yourself. Even when four heroes walk on the same board, they interact almost never, and that is the sad part. No option to really hurt other players progress or drop some stones in their way and at least for me, that makes board games interesting. the way this game plays, it plays as a single player racing game.
