This review contains spoilers
Bland, janky, repetitive, a mess of a story, not scary at all, and some parts are a slog to play through.
But I can’t help but like this game.
Your first impression is probably a resident evil (remakes) clone, which is not wrong for the most part, you find keys and open locks, find clues for safe passwords and open it, all in one giant mansion. Except, without all the item management, interesting enemy variations, bosses, weapon upgrades, and good puzzles (most passwords are in the same room as the locked things and they’re usually just blatantly spelled for you).
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The most infuriating thing about this game is how it fakes you out with the 2 characters (Emily and Edward). When you’re playing for the first time as any character (say, Emily), you would’ve thought that the other one (Edward) is experiencing a different thing from you, but are just not telling it. But once you finish the game as Emily, then switch to Edward, you find that it’s all the same, except the role is now reversed (Emily is now not experiencing any of the horror).
The only differences between characters are the last part of chapter 4, and a few cutscenes, but the story beat and dungeon are fairly unchanged, oh and Edward’s first weapon seems to be stronger.
Then there’s the 100% completion, I give up midway when I realize I missed something and didn’t have a close save to it. I don’t have a problem with replaying 90% of the game, but the last part of chapter 4 for both characters is a real slog to play so I ALT+F4 and uninstall.
If you want to do it, then pay close attention to a guide unless you want to replay the game multiple times (or keep plenty of backup save, which I stupidly didn’t do).
But I can’t help but like this game.
Your first impression is probably a resident evil (remakes) clone, which is not wrong for the most part, you find keys and open locks, find clues for safe passwords and open it, all in one giant mansion. Except, without all the item management, interesting enemy variations, bosses, weapon upgrades, and good puzzles (most passwords are in the same room as the locked things and they’re usually just blatantly spelled for you).
======================SPOILER DOWN BELOW======================
The most infuriating thing about this game is how it fakes you out with the 2 characters (Emily and Edward). When you’re playing for the first time as any character (say, Emily), you would’ve thought that the other one (Edward) is experiencing a different thing from you, but are just not telling it. But once you finish the game as Emily, then switch to Edward, you find that it’s all the same, except the role is now reversed (Emily is now not experiencing any of the horror).
The only differences between characters are the last part of chapter 4, and a few cutscenes, but the story beat and dungeon are fairly unchanged, oh and Edward’s first weapon seems to be stronger.
Then there’s the 100% completion, I give up midway when I realize I missed something and didn’t have a close save to it. I don’t have a problem with replaying 90% of the game, but the last part of chapter 4 for both characters is a real slog to play so I ALT+F4 and uninstall.
If you want to do it, then pay close attention to a guide unless you want to replay the game multiple times (or keep plenty of backup save, which I stupidly didn’t do).