This review contains spoilers
silly review;
fear street 1666 x silent hill
serious review;
Kind of drags for the first two hours or so, but once the action really gets started, it's great. The chase scenes had good tension and were suitably terrifying, and they were made even better by the dynamic of rapidly switching between the characters. I liked the monster designs, especially Daniel's and John's.
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't care much for the witch trials storyline, but that's just personal preference. It didn't help that it wasn't really wrapped up – was I right about the priest or was it actually Mary? – and the twist at the end kind of ruins it all. Like, was it even real?
And speaking of the twist, although I enjoyed it, it does kind of retcon the story in a bad way. It makes the deaths feel pointless and the whole witch trial thing a lot more confusing.
The traits system is cool. I'm usually pretty good at these games, but I lost most of the characters this run. I maintain that Angela's death was so not my fault – why don't they give you a choice to shoot or not 😭 – but John's and Taylor's were definitely on me.
A big step up from Man of Medan for multiple reasons, and the dialogue is leagues better. But it does still ring as unrealistic in a few scenes, namely after deaths. Like they moved on from Angela's 'death' WAY too fast.
Overall, the action scenes were great, the witch trial stuff was mostly boring, and it was a lot better than people said it was.
edit: also can we talk abt how weird it is that tanya n dennis were siblings but taylor n daniel had a romance 😵💫 like idc if they were adopted that's still so weird right. especially if it's supposed to be some kind of hallucination of andrew's – why is he hallucinating his siblings dating??? 😭
fear street 1666 x silent hill
serious review;
Kind of drags for the first two hours or so, but once the action really gets started, it's great. The chase scenes had good tension and were suitably terrifying, and they were made even better by the dynamic of rapidly switching between the characters. I liked the monster designs, especially Daniel's and John's.
I'm gonna be honest, I didn't care much for the witch trials storyline, but that's just personal preference. It didn't help that it wasn't really wrapped up – was I right about the priest or was it actually Mary? – and the twist at the end kind of ruins it all. Like, was it even real?
And speaking of the twist, although I enjoyed it, it does kind of retcon the story in a bad way. It makes the deaths feel pointless and the whole witch trial thing a lot more confusing.
The traits system is cool. I'm usually pretty good at these games, but I lost most of the characters this run. I maintain that Angela's death was so not my fault – why don't they give you a choice to shoot or not 😭 – but John's and Taylor's were definitely on me.
A big step up from Man of Medan for multiple reasons, and the dialogue is leagues better. But it does still ring as unrealistic in a few scenes, namely after deaths. Like they moved on from Angela's 'death' WAY too fast.
Overall, the action scenes were great, the witch trial stuff was mostly boring, and it was a lot better than people said it was.
edit: also can we talk abt how weird it is that tanya n dennis were siblings but taylor n daniel had a romance 😵💫 like idc if they were adopted that's still so weird right. especially if it's supposed to be some kind of hallucination of andrew's – why is he hallucinating his siblings dating??? 😭