The writing sucks but in a funny way so I imagine this would be very good dumb fun if I could play the whole thing, too bad the camera and movement controls are so bad that I get motion sickness if I play for more than 20 minutes at a time. I don't think that's ever happened to me before outside of first person games. This is clearly going for a resident evil 4 sort of thing but that game is like a million times tighter and more precise to play. Way too stiff and awkward and nothing ever feels satisfying even when you do it right. Also the endless references get old fast. I only played for like 2 hours and within that time frame it was already clear that the developers were super afraid that even a single player might not get that they liked Stephen King/Twin Peaks/Lost etc. There's a scene where you get chased by a dude with an axe and they directly mirror the shot from The Shining, and right after that Alan says basically to the camera "He's about to bust down the door like Jack Nicholson in The Shining" and I probably would have quit the game right there if it wasn't so funny. Did the writers and animators just never talk while they worked on this game and no one realized that both the cutscene and the script had included the same obvious reference to The Shining at the exact same time? Anyways if you can sit through the awful gameplay this is probably a very stupidly funny game/tv show to watch.

Reviewed on Jul 17, 2023


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