I was gifted the sequel to The Coma:Recut, Vicious Sisters, and it looked interesting enough to buy the first. It's very good! Your character has been trapped in a shadowy middle-world where evil spirits are attempting to fully break through to our world, and you navigate a darkened and creepy multi-level school building, searching for an exit while solving the mystery of how this came about, gathering many notes of lore and clues along the way, and trying to save your own spirit from being corrupted.

The tension and atmosphere are well-done, and the level design and plot very well-integrated with each other; e.g., you find a note that the music teacher might have a keycode, which involves locating her office and traversing the building complex to it. Doing this while avoiding a murderous spirit who tends to pop up unexpectedly becomes increasingly challenging, and I was always listening closely to hear her footsteps & growling!

There are sidequests as well, mainly involving saving your character's soul by investigating inexplicably poor grades, which will impact what ending you get, and i think multiple play-throughs are needed to get all achievements. My only complaints are a perhaps overly-aggressive enemy A.I. later in the game, along with a confusing maze-like tendency to navigating the final level, and I had to consult a walkthrough for the concluding section.

The Coma: Recut has genuinely unsettling Korean horror elements, well-written plot, and satisfying exploration in a creepy atmosphere. I felt a definite similarity in lore to the magnificent recent Korean horror movie The Wailing, with its evil spirits corrupting and co-opting the living. A big thumbsup and I'm looking forward to playing The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters!

I was gifted the sequel to The Coma:Recut, Vicious Sisters, and it looked interesting enough to buy the first. It's very good! Your character has been trapped in a shadowy middle-world where evil spirits are attempting to fully break through to our world, and you navigate a darkened and creepy multi-level school building, searching for an exit while solving the mystery of how this came about, gathering many notes of lore and clues along the way, and trying to save your own spirit from being corrupted. The tension and atmosphere are well-done, and the level design and plot very well-integrated with each other; e.g., you find a note that the music teacher might have a keycode, which involves locating her office and traversing the building complex to it. Doing this while avoiding a murderous spirit who tends to pop up unexpectedly becomes increasingly challenging, and I was always listening closely to hear her footsteps & growling! There are sidequests as well, mainly involving saving your character's soul by investigating inexplicably poor grades, which will impact what ending you get, and i think multiple play-throughs are needed to get all achievements. My only complaints are a perhaps overly-aggressive enemy A.I. later in the game, along with a confusing maze-like tendency to navigating the final level, and I had to consult a walkthrough for the concluding section. The Coma: Recut has genuinely unsettling Korean horror elements, well-written plot, and satisfying exploration in a creepy atmosphere. I felt a definite similarity in lore to the magnificent recent Korean horror movie The Wailing, with its evil spirits corrupting and co-opting the living. A big thumbsup and I'm looking forward to playing The Coma 2: Vicious Sisters!