5 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 33.1 hrs on record
Posted: 3 Sep, 2016 @ 5:42am

This was a very freaky game, in the good way. It starts like a normal story, but then... It gets weird. REALLY weird. I really recommand it due to the good sides, though there are some bad sides that I think you should know before you buy.

The good sides:
- The horror story is really good, and gets more interesting as you play. The boring parts (mainly chapter 3) still have beautiful scenes to keep you interested.
- The story is mostly not predictable, cause most of the things that happen during the game are SO weird that you couldn't guess them unless you saw screenshots/videos before playing.
- The graphics are amazing, the drwaings are really good and evil, and there are a lot of great scenes. I think the design is pretty perfect, even though personally I would give up the black blurry frame that covers the whole game.
- The story manages to be pretty original, which is hard to do with the idea of "a person wakes up in the asylum" that we have seen in many movies/games before.
- If you happen to have any technical problems, the moderators in the forum are really helpful in helping you solve them.

The bad sides:
- The game is VERY easy to figure out, as you are being told exactly what you need to do during the whole game. The puzzles are easy as well, there are barely any chat options, and overall you can't really fail or get anything wrong in this game. You don't need to explore too much in order to find the solution to everything, and most of the game you just watch things happen like a movie, so there isn't really any challange. This game is clearly made for adults and not for kids, so I thought it would be much harder. On the bright side though, at least the story itself is good enough to still keep you interested.
- There is no voice acting for the characters, which feels a bit outdated for a point and click game that was made on 2015. Most of the story feels like watching a muted movie with subtitles, which could work for other type of games, but with point and click the whole game is based on listening to the characters. I feel like the game could be 10 times better if it did have voice acting.
- Taking screenshots in this game is really complicated at the moment and doesn't work at the normal way, which is very annoying, mainly because the scenes are so beautiful and creepy that it makes you wanna screenshot the whole game.
- Unlike other point and click games, on this one you can't save different points of the game in order to come back to them later. The only options you have are to continue your last gameplay, start a new game (which will delete your last gameplay), and start a chapter of your choice from the beginning. This is not very comfortable, especially if you click something by mistake, or if you miss achivements.
- The main character does not have enough reactions to the scary things, including things that involve her dead parents. She is like, ok with everything, or maybe a bit angry for a moment, but the only thing she really cares about is her cat. In some points at the game it's not really believable for a 10 years old girl to simply not care or react to things.
- Sadly the scary and horror scenes really repeat themselves, and even though those are great scenes, they get a bit boring after a while. There are a few that will still surprise you, but most of them just repeat in different locations.

Accoring to the credits, this game was mostly made by just two people, which is very impressive when you look at the result. I would sure want to check out their next game if they ever make any, though I hope they would fix the above problems if they do.
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