It’s not a good story, because the storyline falls apart somewhere after midpoint and it’s not particularly well written. It’s not a particularly fun adventure game, with really tedious “puzzles” starting in the last chapters. Which gets a bit better in chapter 4, but then takes a nose dive and culminates with the ending chapter being just a pointless pseudo-“smart” self-discovery sequences, scene borrowed from Kubrick and an ending quote from Radiohead. Game enforces more tedious walking back and forth, asks for obscure puzzle solutions and doesn’t present a particularly interesting story. First two chapters establish the premise of a strange horror mystery dream thriller sci-fi tale with not particularly good writing, but one that fits the mood and stop motion looks.īut starting with chapter 3 things start falling apart.
#Grim dawn descent into torment full
“So much potential”, I’d write, “such an interesting premise!” But the full game is an utter mess that gets more tedious and boring to play the further it goes. If this was a review of the first 2 chapters of the game, I would’ve been hopeful. It’s still a curious title, but not particularly worth the time.ĭream Machine is a chapter based game that spent 7 years in development, with new chapters released over the course of development.
While it has a lot of really nice visual ideas for horror and storytelling, several endings, depending on how you play the game, and pretty much all of the “jump scares” can be avoided and in quite obvious ways (like “don’t go towards a creepy looking hellish room full of black goo”) it’s a bit of a boring game, due to how predictable the story becomes and how linear and scripted everything is. It’s a pretty looking surreal descent into madness and alcoholism told from the perspective of a very unreliable narrator – a tortured mad artist trying to finish his painting. Layers of Fear is a first person story-driven horror adventure game heavily influenced by the now infamous PT (the cancelled Silent Hills teaser).
#Grim dawn descent into torment series
It’s sad, bad, adds even less to the series than Mankind Divided and is better avoided completely. Each zone (between loading screens) is shorter then in Invisible War, which is an achievement in itself, a lot of the events feel meaningless, most of the mechanics are cut down to the very boring basics and the game ends on a “To be continued” which never came to be and never will.
While it’s admirable that it tried to put the Human Revolution-like experience on the mobile devices, and in that regard it can at least be respected as marvel of “wow, you cut only most of what made the game good, not all”, it was probably very much not worth it. Worth checking out.ĭeus Ex: The Fall is probably the worst Deus Ex standalone game out there. It’s cute, potentially fun for speedrunning (it was even run on one of the GDQ events) and is in general fun to play around due to the amount of movement tricks you can do. Refunct is a short and pretty looking first person platformer title about jumping, stepping on buttons and unlocking more and more of a rather small map. It’s surprisingly fun for what it is and is definitely worth checking, especially on discount or in a bundle.
There’s a primitive arcade game, that’s totally not built by Satan to torment you forever that you will play, trying to get to the bottom of the situation you got yourself in. Pony Island is a simplistic, almost exclusively mouse driven game that mixes a simple concept of “runner” games and 4th wall breaking puzzle solving. Yep, that’s a lot of stuff that piled up over the course of about half a year. The games I will cover here are these: Pony Island, Refunct, Deus Ex: The Fall, Layers of Fear, Dream Machine, Hidden Folks, Clustertruck, Superhot, 2000:1 A Space Felony, Goat Simulator, Environmental Station Alpha, Ori and the Blind Forest and Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse. It is time again to write about a bunch of games I played, some of which I finished, but which didn’t really require a full on exclusive review for them (or even the dual/triple review post, for that matter).