This game is for a unforgetable climate and stunning views. It's not about a gameplay and killing monsters would make it worse I'm sure. It's about resolving a big, complicated mistery and please DO NOT JUDGE AFTER 1 or 2 houres of playing as it's so unfair!!!
Yes it has a lot of a damn good and scary movie but I think it's a good thing.
Highly recommended!
Bloober Team, it must be said, consistently does a superb job on the execution of its games. The graphics are great, the score is great, the writing is usually at least solid. And in that regard this might be their best game yet; Marianne is a really great character, and I like how the plot is closely tied to recent Polish history in a way that feels fresh and serves as an engine for the story.
Unfortunately, the mechanics are day-old bread stale. The game never quite knows what use to make of the splitscreen gimmick, and honestly I wish they'd swiped a page from "Murdered: Soul Suspect," which uses a somewhat similar concept and approach to better effect. Ultimately this is just a point-and-click game with some survival horror sequences bolted onto it, and it's less scary than deeply annoying. If you're really into point-and-click, or like the story, check it out, but otherwise, pass.
THE GOOD
- Amazing, multi-layered story
- The setting
- Well defined characters
- Graphics
- Audio
THE BAD
- Controls
- Performance
THE REVIEW
This is a linear point and click adventure game that reminds me of many classics. The story is great and has many layers. We discover it piece by piece, but not always in chronological order. It goes back years sometimes to present us with retrospective information, which eventually all fall into place. I've had lots of fun discovering the main plot and learning about all of the characters and how their side backstories explain their place in the main storyline.
There are some puzzles to solve, but they aren't very difficult to figure out. This is not a bad thing actually. They give just a little challenge, but don't detract from the most important thing - the story, which to me is the best thing about this game.
Being a Polish person raised in the post-communist era, I was instantly captivated by the setting of the game that brought a lot of nostalgia and memories from my childhood.
The graphics and audio are of the highest quality. However the controls are clunky and very unintuitive, which makes the experience annoying at times.
The performance can be very bad, the game stuttered on an nVidia 3080 RTX card quite often. Annoyingly it would also happen during the dynamic "escape the monster" parts, which - similarly to clunky controls - has just detracted from the overall experience.
I am still giving it 5 stars, because for me the amazing storyline has definitely made up for bad controls and performance issues.
I really hope there is going to be a sequel!
I've just finished the game and must say, the visuals, environments, sound design, level design even the light puzzles were all great and the dual world element does add to uniqueness of the game. As for the story, it is quite fresh and well paced with a good amount of plot twists (SPOILER - the ending feels open, are we going to get a sequel?). As for the technical aspect, the optimization is not ideal. The game does look beautiful, the ray tracing does work nicely, DLSS does its thing as well I suppose, but the frame rate just isn't consistent through out the game, even on RTX 4070 Ti Super. Thinking this is a Nvidia sponsored game, I would expect much better performance form an Nvidia RTX 40 series card. That being said, I would still recommend this game to anyone who likes adventure horror games with some light puzzles and action scene here and there.