QUE JOGO BOM NAMORAL!!! Um CLÁSSICO do survivor horror que eu nunca tinha jogado, agora dei uma chance e virou um dos meus jogos favoritos!
A gameplay é ótima, a mecânica de interação com o Hewie e como isso afeta a relação com ele (e até o final do jogo) é SUPER INTERESSANTE, mesmo sendo simples. Os puzzles são bons. Fiquei preso em algumas partes, mas era só botar meus dois neurônios pra funcionar que eu passava sem a menor dificuldade.
Os perseguidores são icônicos e meu favorito com certeza é a Daniella, apesar de ser uma CHATA INSISTENTE.
A história consegue ser bem confusa no início, mas com o tempo ela vai se completando e fazendo mais sentido!

Recomendo super <3

This is another one of those rare and hard-to-find games that any physical copies are nearly impossible to get your hands on, much like Rule of Rose. It's safest to try and emulate than getting the physical copy.

The game starts out with a car crash where your character is captured and stripped, left in a cage until she manages to escape and exploring the mansion leads to your first chaser in the game, Debhilitas. A huge man-child that has decided to make you his new plaything.

After this, you soon come across Hewie, a beautiful white Alsatian who does his best to help you out and you can even actively train to do tricks to help with unlocking other puzzles later on to progress through the mansion.

Unlike Rule of Rose, there's no effective way to fight off the stalker as you could with monsters in Rule of Rose. Your main defence is to run away, hide or even use Hewie to distract them so that you can get about a room or two away from them and hide effectively.

The story is dark with what their intentions for this character are, however, the multiple endings gives the option for replay-ability, though, the bad ending is one you'd have to activly work at getting by abusing the poor dog.

There's also a fan theory going around that Hewie here is that white dog you rescue in RE4, then comes back to aid you fighting one of those El Gianti creatures you face.

Another gem of a retro game that I recommend you look up if you love horror games.

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A must play for people who consider themselves fans of the horror genre, as creative in it’s approach to the gameplay as it is terrifying, its a real test of mettle and how much you can handle, it tosses away conventional regular enemies to instead focus on a posse of stalker enemies who chase you around as you try to desperately advance through various levels, speaking of those, it’s amazing the amount of interesting environment you can pack with such a simple setting, some later levels are just jaw-dropping in terms of atmosphere and detail. It’s a true spiritual successor to RE1, but you’re not playing a person capable of being able to shoot any threat that comes their away, quite the opposite in fact, Fiona can and will succumb to the stress placed upon her by enemies which leads to a variety of panicked states, she only has her wits and some piss poor attacks to maneuver or defend herself, the German Shepard she rescues, Hewie, does the real carrying but even then he can only temporarily stop enemies and not permanently incapacitate them, add to that the fact that the stalkers in this game don’t have a habit of giving up easily on chasing you and you have a great basis for some truly terrifying moment to moment gameplay.

Oh yeah, the story is also interesting and holds it’s own quite well, Fiona might not say much but her expressions show a sea of emotions, seriously the facial animations for the game are pretty fucking good and they add a lot to the cutscenes, one of the most terrific scenes is pretty dependent on em! As for other aspects I really like how an act of unwarranted kindness from Fiona, even in the depths of hell, is what ends up saving her, I think it’s a neat way to shine a light on an aspect of Fiona’s personality.

In 2005 Capcom released two of the best survival horror gameplay experiences, but sadly only RE4 got the attention it deserved... This was a constant thrill. Its expansive interconnected castle still looks amazing and somehow has zero load times on PS2, meaning the stalkers can follow you room to room basically anywhere and you have to learn how to lose them. You can hide in designated spots like wardrobes or under beds, but also just in the shadows, behind doors.. Eventually your pursuers will learn how you're tricking them. Something this ambitious, with an AI dog partner no less, could have been a disaster but the mechanics are really functional. It just doesn't hold your hand at all. I can see why it probably won't get rereleased today due to its themes (and the most disturbing game over screens ever) but it's something more people should try out... on PCSX2. I'm lucky to have a copy

Haunting Ground is a tough one to review, it's a spiritual successor to Clock Tower 3 which is closer in tone to the first game in the series while also being a very fundamentally sound game in its own right. But even though I liked a lot of the game, it didn't really resonate with me at all.

The setup creates a lot of mystery and intrigue that kept me going through the early parts of the game but my interest really waned in the latter half since a lot of the revelations at that point lean too much on supernatural elements that betray the foreboding and gothic atmosphere that the game has. I also find the game to dip in quality when it came to the chasers, Debilitas and Daniella are both pretty freaky but in completely different ways and are really memorable compared to Riccardo who is just a hooded guy with a gun. I'd say the story as a whole is fine, it's got that PS2 survival horror vibe that I love, some memorable characters and a cool reveal near the end but nothing that really stood out to me.

The gameplay is the main highlight here with the main aspect of it being Hewie, your dog companion who can help with puzzles, fending off chasers and is just all around adorable. When you first get him though I was super worried, he was barely responding to my actions and making him follow you for just a few rooms was an extreme chore, but shortly after you pet him, feed him jerky and occasionally scold him, he becomes really obedient and his behavior becomes a non-issue. The puzzles which utilize Hewie are probably my favourite parts of the game, they range from basic stuff like having him crawl through holes to pick up items to having to pick up the scent of a plant that you need to other neat ways. Other puzzles are decent but some can be brute-forced and a lot of them boil down to writing down blatant words onto a plate and then inserting then into golems but it's still enjoyable.

The other key aspect of the game would be running away from chasers, it works pretty similarly to how it did in CT3 but slightly more refined I'd say. There is no bar that shows you how panicked Fiona and instead her panic state is indicated via visual effects with the screen becoming more blurry and desaturated as Fiona's panic state rises. I really like this since it does wonders in being stress-inducing and is also amplified by how difficult she is to control when in a state of panic. Another thing I like is how each chaser has a completely different theme, it helps them feel more distinct. But with that said, I don't find this game to be very scary, any encounter with a chaser can be solved by flicking up on the d-pad to have Hewie bite them and then running away into a hide spot. The game tries to make it a bit more interesting by having items that you can throw or plant on the ground that can stun the chasers but they're really janky and getting them is really awkward since you have to do this luck-based minigame that's just lame so I didn't bother. After a while these encounters start feeling really sterile, especially when you're trying to explore the castle but have to spend minutes getting away from the chasers first, it just ends up halting progression without accomplishing much else.

But even after saying all this I don't really have any strong emotions towards this game. The negatives are really minor (except the final boss, Fuck Him) and didn't impact my overall enjoyment too much and I like a good chunk of what's here, but I don't really love anything. It's a vague statement that I usually hate saying but Haunting Ground just didn't click with me.