ShiroiUma
4 reviews liked by ShiroiUma
Signalis
2022
A JOURNEY LIKE NO OTHER!
It starts off like a creepy, old school, silent hill inspired, game with cool graphic and top tier OST (might be my favorite of all time honestly) but ends with an even more amazing visuals and story that leaves you with a feeling of shock and awe. From the first moment you are greeted with an eerie theme of the opening of the game menu that sets the tone for the rest of the game.
The mix of melancholy, depressing and, in the right moments, inspiring songs is insane. Tracks like Emptiness and The Promise amplify the already beautifully visual game moments, while Double Back and Turned Around deepen the grim atmosphere while trying to stay alive.
Gameplay itself is a mix of basic, but well made and enjoyable, combat and puzzle solving that takes you all around the map with lots of details that subtly hint on the settings and morals of the outer world.
Enemies are not too hard and not too annoying to deal with but still challenging enough to fear them for hitting you, puzzles also aren't hard as to have to google some or most of them.
Main story is harder to piece together for the most of the game because of abstract, yet beautiful, and sometimes vague storytelling but if you persist you will be rewarded with a gut wrenching finale and conclusion, full of themes of perseverance and undying love.
The game is not too long and it makes good use of map design so that it keeps things interesting. There are several endings which i think fit well with the motif and the atmosphere but you still get the full picture of the story whichever one you get.
I'd say overall this is a must play for people who like silent hill/resident evil type game and also for people who enjoy surreal, macabre and abstract worlds.
It starts off like a creepy, old school, silent hill inspired, game with cool graphic and top tier OST (might be my favorite of all time honestly) but ends with an even more amazing visuals and story that leaves you with a feeling of shock and awe. From the first moment you are greeted with an eerie theme of the opening of the game menu that sets the tone for the rest of the game.
The mix of melancholy, depressing and, in the right moments, inspiring songs is insane. Tracks like Emptiness and The Promise amplify the already beautifully visual game moments, while Double Back and Turned Around deepen the grim atmosphere while trying to stay alive.
Gameplay itself is a mix of basic, but well made and enjoyable, combat and puzzle solving that takes you all around the map with lots of details that subtly hint on the settings and morals of the outer world.
Enemies are not too hard and not too annoying to deal with but still challenging enough to fear them for hitting you, puzzles also aren't hard as to have to google some or most of them.
Main story is harder to piece together for the most of the game because of abstract, yet beautiful, and sometimes vague storytelling but if you persist you will be rewarded with a gut wrenching finale and conclusion, full of themes of perseverance and undying love.
The game is not too long and it makes good use of map design so that it keeps things interesting. There are several endings which i think fit well with the motif and the atmosphere but you still get the full picture of the story whichever one you get.
I'd say overall this is a must play for people who like silent hill/resident evil type game and also for people who enjoy surreal, macabre and abstract worlds.
One of the worst High Budget/60$/"AAA" games i ever played, the only good things are the actor performances, graphics (for the most part) and some sound design, everything else is so bad, boring and bland.
From the awful weapon switching, stealth and 2+ enemy melee combat to the bad lip syncing, bland "story", dialog writing and boss fights.
The game is pretty much a much shittier Dead Space in term of everything, where the only original design is the melee combat that could have been better but it can pass for the most part. I get that the creator of Dead Space made this game but c'mon give us something new, anything, doesn't even have to be original in terms of sci fi, just don't copy paste the same fucking game again just worse.
I'm sad that i didn't quit after the first couple of hours and happy that i pirated the game and didn't buy this piece of shit.
From the awful weapon switching, stealth and 2+ enemy melee combat to the bad lip syncing, bland "story", dialog writing and boss fights.
The game is pretty much a much shittier Dead Space in term of everything, where the only original design is the melee combat that could have been better but it can pass for the most part. I get that the creator of Dead Space made this game but c'mon give us something new, anything, doesn't even have to be original in terms of sci fi, just don't copy paste the same fucking game again just worse.
I'm sad that i didn't quit after the first couple of hours and happy that i pirated the game and didn't buy this piece of shit.
So far this game kinda sucks donkey balls. The pacing and combat are god-awful trash. The story feels incredibly pointless and completely misguided. The only thing good about this game is that the characters are cool and some of the set pieces are pretty cool too. I'm not excited to play more when I get around to it.
i don't feel strongly about the story decisions but i really hate the combat in this game. it's terrifying to commit to any action and you never feel like you're responding to it with the strategy it expects you to arrive at. apparently the combat feels better in the new game but i sure hope they tweak the way they approach encounter design as well. it's possible barret is the greatest character in all of video games