When I was a kid I used to watch a letsplayer play this game and I thought it was GREAT. The letsplayer--not so much, so he stopped playing it and I never got to see the end of it.
Years later (today) I was able to finish Saw and understand his frustrations so I personally want to call him a DUMBASS (with love)
It's a very good game. Sure, the PC port sucks, but come on, moving your character/selection with the mouse in certain minigames with a giant sensitivity despite being clunky, is what made everything tense.
The soundtrack is incredible. Heavy, suffocating and tense but still bangers. The setting and all the sound and art direction in general, is amazing. Throughout the game you see dirt falling from the ceiling, as if there was someone walking above you and I always loved every time I saw it, even though it never meant anything in the story, but it gave you that sense of insecurity that you're not alone and that you're going to eventually encounter enemies.
The melee combat is a real pain in the ass and a super clunky and annoying trade so the game offers you different ways to take out your enemies using Jigsaw's traps. If you manage to deactivate Jigsaw's traps, you can use it against the enemies and those traps are instakill for both the player and the enemies, so it was fun to feel like you were "playing with fire". Everybody gangsta until an enemy comes along who doesn't die from 1 shot lmao.
Exploration, same thing. Because of the booby trapped doors and wires on the floor, exploring every nook and cranny was fun but dangerous and no matter how much there is nothing important in a room, being able to breathe because you covered everything and there is no trap was really satisfying and made it worthwhile.
Everything about the gameplay and visuals I loved it. The place is really gross and your character is barefoot and if you step on glass, it takes away your life making you have to pay even more attention to where you step and it's something that not many games do and I love it. That feeling of everything being so messy that you don't want to touch anything is something that the Saw movies have and many others lack.
The story on the other hand felt pretty ehh idk I don't want to say it's bad, but it really has no depth or plot twist and with a character so important to the plot, I'm able to understand it but still, I always grabbed the lore notes and all that but none of them were interesting. There was one about a kid who said he couldn't write because he had to be with his hands inside an iron thing (rehab) so a doctor was writing with him, and I was like "oh, how interesting I wish I'd hear more from this person 🙂" and it turns out the log was just to tell you that basically the metallic things you see were medical machines and it's like uhhh kind of like I already assumed that, considering that it takes into account in an asylum lol
The two endings are boring but that's because Tapp is really fucking dense.
Other than that, very good game :--) I had a great time ngl
Years later (today) I was able to finish Saw and understand his frustrations so I personally want to call him a DUMBASS (with love)
It's a very good game. Sure, the PC port sucks, but come on, moving your character/selection with the mouse in certain minigames with a giant sensitivity despite being clunky, is what made everything tense.
The soundtrack is incredible. Heavy, suffocating and tense but still bangers. The setting and all the sound and art direction in general, is amazing. Throughout the game you see dirt falling from the ceiling, as if there was someone walking above you and I always loved every time I saw it, even though it never meant anything in the story, but it gave you that sense of insecurity that you're not alone and that you're going to eventually encounter enemies.
The melee combat is a real pain in the ass and a super clunky and annoying trade so the game offers you different ways to take out your enemies using Jigsaw's traps. If you manage to deactivate Jigsaw's traps, you can use it against the enemies and those traps are instakill for both the player and the enemies, so it was fun to feel like you were "playing with fire". Everybody gangsta until an enemy comes along who doesn't die from 1 shot lmao.
Exploration, same thing. Because of the booby trapped doors and wires on the floor, exploring every nook and cranny was fun but dangerous and no matter how much there is nothing important in a room, being able to breathe because you covered everything and there is no trap was really satisfying and made it worthwhile.
Everything about the gameplay and visuals I loved it. The place is really gross and your character is barefoot and if you step on glass, it takes away your life making you have to pay even more attention to where you step and it's something that not many games do and I love it. That feeling of everything being so messy that you don't want to touch anything is something that the Saw movies have and many others lack.
The story on the other hand felt pretty ehh idk I don't want to say it's bad, but it really has no depth or plot twist and with a character so important to the plot, I'm able to understand it but still, I always grabbed the lore notes and all that but none of them were interesting. There was one about a kid who said he couldn't write because he had to be with his hands inside an iron thing (rehab) so a doctor was writing with him, and I was like "oh, how interesting I wish I'd hear more from this person 🙂" and it turns out the log was just to tell you that basically the metallic things you see were medical machines and it's like uhhh kind of like I already assumed that, considering that it takes into account in an asylum lol
The two endings are boring but that's because Tapp is really fucking dense.
Other than that, very good game :--) I had a great time ngl