This review contains spoilers
The Suffering was cool at the start, being a death row inmate trapped on a prison island with various monsters and spirits. Then it quickly became boring, repetitive, and a lil frustrating. I appreciate that for a survival horror game, that it throws so much resources at you, but I realized that it gives you so many resources because the enemies seem to endlessly respawn or just come back to life right in front of me. So at the end of the game, where they really amp up enemy spawns, I found myself quickly running out of ammo and healing items.
The story is a lil head scratch to me, so I'm gonna post spoilers here in this paragraph. The game is centered around "T", a death row inmate that blacked out and killed is wife and two kids. Now, there is a morality system in this game, and I'm not sure how much it affects the dialogue/story, but as you progress, T gets lots of visual/auditory hallucinations of his wife and kids. I went the "evil" route because I didnt really want to spare the dirty pigs that are the police of the island or the inmates that were most likely there for a good reason? Every choice you make your dead wife makes a comment about it. Also these premonitions are annoying as fuck. The wife and kids are just so whiny and guilt trippy. Like yeah, I killed you, get over it already. I dont need to be reminded every time I walk into a new room. Another key story element is that there are 3 ghosts there that fuck with you and eventually become boss fights. I like the puzzles that these boss fights bring. But they feel pointless? The ghosts dont die or disappear. They are still there! I guess they are testing "T"? But it just feels pointless??? The ending felt so anticlimactic to me as well.
I dont know, I didnt really enjoy this game much. I liked the puzzles, the beginning was promising, but killing the same 3 enemies 80% of the time then getting 2 new surprise enemies towards thge end that take a lot of resources to kill and the difficulty ramp didnt help. The noosemen were funny though. Nice jumpscares from them.
The story is a lil head scratch to me, so I'm gonna post spoilers here in this paragraph. The game is centered around "T", a death row inmate that blacked out and killed is wife and two kids. Now, there is a morality system in this game, and I'm not sure how much it affects the dialogue/story, but as you progress, T gets lots of visual/auditory hallucinations of his wife and kids. I went the "evil" route because I didnt really want to spare the dirty pigs that are the police of the island or the inmates that were most likely there for a good reason? Every choice you make your dead wife makes a comment about it. Also these premonitions are annoying as fuck. The wife and kids are just so whiny and guilt trippy. Like yeah, I killed you, get over it already. I dont need to be reminded every time I walk into a new room. Another key story element is that there are 3 ghosts there that fuck with you and eventually become boss fights. I like the puzzles that these boss fights bring. But they feel pointless? The ghosts dont die or disappear. They are still there! I guess they are testing "T"? But it just feels pointless??? The ending felt so anticlimactic to me as well.
I dont know, I didnt really enjoy this game much. I liked the puzzles, the beginning was promising, but killing the same 3 enemies 80% of the time then getting 2 new surprise enemies towards thge end that take a lot of resources to kill and the difficulty ramp didnt help. The noosemen were funny though. Nice jumpscares from them.