Let me just come out swinging. This game is terrible. The atmosphere is there, it just never coalesces into something meaningful. The graphics are meh, which is to be expected with Unity powering the entire thing. I was never truly on board with this, sort of hanging off the side for the ride until the baby scene. Without spoilers, let's just say that the ghost baby you chase turns out not to be scary in the least. It was so non-scary that I was on the floor, literally, howling with laughter for 15 minutes. Any mention of the ghost baby in Layers of Fear still reduces me to tears. Pretty sure that's not how your horror game is supposed to leave people.
I didn't like this game at all. First of all, you have the stealing from every game that was succesful. To me, that was a big part of the game. There is no original thought in this game. It's a game that plays a lot like Tomb Raider. Except you have the grappling hook from Zelda. Riding horses from Zelda. The portal gun from, well, Portal. Worse yet: you start out fully powered and lose all your powers in the first part of the game. We've seen that before too. Everything you see in the game, you have seen before. You have done before. And you have seen and done it before better. While the game has decent atmosphere and combat, it just does not deserve the praise it got. Though, I guess people were right when they said "Better stolen well than created poorly." I, for one, could not get past the feeling that this game is just a retread of old games mashed together forcibly.
