I had fun with this slasher-inspired horror game. I really enjoyed the monster design. I'm glad they went in that direction.
Most of the characters are enjoyable (or barely tolerable in Jacob's case) and the banter isn't too annoying. My main negative, with the survivor cast, is the group is too large. This creates an uneven time spent between the characters. There's a couple of the kids, after the initial 3 chapters, that are gone from the rest of the night.
It didn't stop my enjoyment, but damn, these kids can really hold their shit together over major injuries. I had to laugh a couple of times when someone brushes off a serious injury to keep the night moving forward. I know some of that can be attributed to adrenaline but not everything. I did have fun with the violent death scenes when you screwed up.
My biggest negative is this studio's game mechanics. You are encouraged to play their game multiple times; that's fine, but you only have one auto-save file and you cannot skip cutscenes. It's a huge drag to watch the same cutscenes 5+ times and it changes nothing. You also can't skip chapters. You have to play the run to the end. There's no real reason for that, other to waste your time. It's giving me great pause to play their other titles because it's so time consuming.
Most of the characters are enjoyable (or barely tolerable in Jacob's case) and the banter isn't too annoying. My main negative, with the survivor cast, is the group is too large. This creates an uneven time spent between the characters. There's a couple of the kids, after the initial 3 chapters, that are gone from the rest of the night.
It didn't stop my enjoyment, but damn, these kids can really hold their shit together over major injuries. I had to laugh a couple of times when someone brushes off a serious injury to keep the night moving forward. I know some of that can be attributed to adrenaline but not everything. I did have fun with the violent death scenes when you screwed up.
My biggest negative is this studio's game mechanics. You are encouraged to play their game multiple times; that's fine, but you only have one auto-save file and you cannot skip cutscenes. It's a huge drag to watch the same cutscenes 5+ times and it changes nothing. You also can't skip chapters. You have to play the run to the end. There's no real reason for that, other to waste your time. It's giving me great pause to play their other titles because it's so time consuming.