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Reviewly? Tormented Souls... ehuh
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Spoilers ahead.. for a pretty new game so a surprise for me ^_^
It was on a really good offer the other day so I ended up with a copy of the survival horror game 'Tormented Souls'. Meant to be highly inspired by survival horror of the 90s more then the more awful stuff they became. Set in 1994, you play as Caroline Walker, a very stupid idiot who can't seam to add 2 and 2 together.. I mean, I know there is a thing with game logic and having diaries being more optional collectables which just give backstory more then something the character is required and there fore, the player might not know but still.. she is THICK. Things which you NEED to know in order to be able to complete a puzzle, you complete and then she doesn't know what she has just done.. anyway, she gets a picture which shows two 10 year old (approx) twin girls who look quite a bit like her and she gets a headache.. and there is an address if a hospital on a island, so she goes there to find out what happened to the girls and find them. despite the photo looking a bit old, she thinks they are still.. young..
Anyway, the moment she gets there, she is knocked out and wakes up naked in a bath and attached to a venalator and the hospital with a bandage around her right eye with no sign of blood or anything.. she goes to the mirror, removes the badage and finds her eye I missing.. and in it's place.. a weird.. I think it's meant to be an empty eye socket with the eye lid removed as well.. no blood so it's been well cleaned and cared for but still.. someone clearly did a professional job for some reason..
She also ends up finding not only is the place very run down but there are surgically changed (it makes a point that alot of surgery has been done on them) humans mixed with metal. You probebly haven't noticed, but we already have some major mysteries which... will NEVER get properly solved..
The only living person you find is a weird priest who appears to be very much up to something and doesn't seam to notice some of the weird things going on and is saying.. well, clearly NOT the last rites over a corpse.. He acts like he has met you before but you have never met him (this DOES get solved.. and then more confused).
anyway.. As things go on, you then find you can go into a mirror and enter a 'twisted' version of the world where some things you do effect the real world.. What is this world? you never find out. let, at all. unless I really missed something... But there are a few mirrors in the game which allow you to swap between the real world and this one.. where people are more twisted like the creatures you keep coming across.. like they have been experimented on in this weird world which is kinda giving a huge USA cold-war submarine feel.. well.. I'll tell you now.. this MIGHT make sense and explain the creatures perfectly.. but nope.. one document you find, explains kinda where they really came from but doesn't make too much sense.. I'll get to that real thing a bit later then it comes up ^_^
One puzzle, you find a body of a human who is somehow kinda still alive, despite medical notes saying she is dead, but seams to have died not too long ago cause rigor mortis has set in, and she has an important item in her hands which can't be taken out by the documents who have bone saws and stuff to hand.. yeah.. OH, and the operation that was being done on her? had some of her rib bones removed and her heart taken out.. (if she had been dead for.. say roughtly a day, Rigor mortis would have disapated so it would have fallen out of her hand.. of course, it does partly depend on enviroment but it doesn't seam to be that warm or cold.. so kinda 'normal'. BUT if you go to the other world, you can find a doll in her place which has the chest open.. with no heart.. If you find 2 pieces of a plastic heart in the 'real' world, and then put them into the doll, when you go back to the real world, the woman has her heart now! and you can use a shock machine to cause her heart to briefly beat and she drops the key item.. Then just leave her.. don't worry.. she'll disappear and never been seen again later.. with just Caroline acting shocked that she has gone..
after a little, not too hard computer passcode problem, you find Dr William, the father of the missing twin girls.. (also get shocked by a scary overwait girl who is the games only unkillable creature.. mm.. sounds like plot point). But he is dead. the body still warm.. and his diary appears to have been written on as he was dying.. someone added poison to his wine!.. which he was happily drinking while all these monsters were around.. and it appears William isn't a bad guy in any way.. for some reason.. despite clearly knowing these monsters running around and everything.. Oh well..
now, the puzzle with the heart clearly shows, as she had to know to solve that puzzle, that something which happens in the 'dark' world effects the real world.. later on, she finds that the priest is in shock and has lost an arm.. In the dark world, she finds a maniquin in his place with a missing arm.. and she can find a chest with spare arms.. she is able to attach the new arm and when going to the real world, the priest is now fine! and comments on her having deal with her arm.. she acts confused as she didn't do anything (and she appears to REALLY have no clue that she did anything more then not trusting the priest.. for some reason.. this is the third encounter with him and each one has shown something really wrong with the guy which she refuses to notice).. anyway, he corrects himself and says that William did it.. and she acts shocked that William is someone in the hospital! and he is the father of the twins!.. She asks where William is, and is told in the office.. yep. the office which less and then a hour ago (in real life more then game time) I found him dead ¬_¬.. I saved the game around this time and she made a comment about how she HAS to find William.. BUT I'VE ALREADY FOUND HIS CORPSE!.. if you are going to have such a thing as a plot point, try to set it up so the player can't get access to his corpse until AFTER you have seen the cutscene setting it up like that.. Oh and the game clearly tells you the new arm on the priest Isn't his arm put back, but a replacement arm.. and someone stole his bible he had earlier.. okay..
sigh.. This game has alot of people work on it.. I'm used to playing alot of small time games with a team of.. like 5.. if that (I'm pretty much a 1 person team.. though I can get the odd help in some things).. this team is a bit.. less bothered in that.. well, they use unity as an engine which is fine, yet they have some really basic beginner screw ups.. the controls for the game are either 'tank' controls like all the old decent games, or some modern setup which seams to be all Xbox focused.. yet looking online, while an xbox and PS4 port were planned, they never got released.. so.. why so xbox focused? no clue. you can't customise a gamepad other then two, only slightly different choices, it only tells you keyboard controls in some documents you can find which give hints on what buttons to press.. oh and mouse control.. fine.. I plugged in my game pad and.. nothing.. Looking on line, yep.. the game pad only works IF you unplug your mouse... well.. 1) I'm using a laptop so that isn't gonna happen, then 2) I used a keymapper to use my gamepad as IF it was pressing keyboard buttons.. fine.. could only use 'tank' controls? no problem. Oh but some things you NEED to use the mouse for.. So you might be screwed if you unplug a mouse to use the gamepad.. some options do seam to allow gamepad only (like you CAN use the menus very keys and not mouse but is a bit iffy).. either way, As I couldn't unplug my mouse (I was going gonna disable it just for one game) I couldn't use the gamepad mode anyway..
Oh and I had to cheat.. was the game hard? not really.. it used a limited save system like old games, though it was a bit rarer to find what you needed to save it wasn't amazingly hard.. but there is one enemy who you NEED to kill to get past.. they are attached to a wall and slice up anything trying to go past.. you just can NOT get past them without killing them.. So as I was killing one.. something happened.. he became immortal!.. Caroline will normally autotarget if an enemy is close.. she didn't interact with him at all, as if he was dead but the animation hadn't updated.. I tried ranged and melee weapons.. nothing.... tried exiting the area and coming back but he couldn't be interactied with as if he was dead but the animation hadn't updated.. so I thought, if that's the case, I should be able to walk past him.. Nope.. accessed the dev debug menu, made myself invinceable and he would still attack and push me back.. so I had to warp into the room he was guarding.. this is called a game breaking bug.. I would either have to start the game all over again (a few hours of play) and hope it never happened again, or just warped as if i did go through the door (by the way, I then returned through the door, to solve the unlock puzzle which I had everything to do but couldn't get to, so i could open the door correctly.. since there was a backdoor which I now was able to unlock too, I just had to go the long way around each time..
anyway, back to the plot.. we find the operating room where the priest said the girls might be.. for some reason.. they aren't.. but you see a weird monster (who doesn't appear anywhere else it seam) walking around a copse and the priest refuses to admit there is anything there.. when you go into that room, he was right.. there is nothing there.. huh.. not.. not too long later, we have VHS tapes! which we find act like the mirrors.. but instead of traveling to a dark version of the world, take you back in time to wherever it was a recording off.. one of these tapes, you can find Anna! one of the two missing girls.. who somehow escaped at one point, then came back to leave bits of her diary around the house, before being captured again.. you try to help her escape but it ... well, she does escape, but it's a few days later.. where she hasn't had any food or water for some days and is fine.. but anyway, she escapes and goes into hiding..
now.. (I'm skipping some details and stuff) you start to find out her grandfather is behind an evil cult who wants to kill the children for there dark radicative god.. to be reborn.. And you have also found out that this grandfather is the Priest! But.. Caroline doesn't pick up on this.. at all.. I mean.. it's POSSIBLE they aren't the same but.. at this point, with him being the only living guy around, and the diary entries all saying the mothers father, who is the local priest, is a nut job that used to whip her 'for her sins' and kidnapped her and the twins to kill for the god, and the priest saying he was the local priest.. yeah.. only an idiot Wouldn't have put two and two together.. like Caroline!.. and you find out one of the twins (Emma) fell of a bridge into the water and was never seen again, but everyone believes she is still alive.. and when Anna and Caroline met, she comments on how she looks somehow familier.. yeah, you are even shown in such a way to show the player, they are both the same.. thus Caroline is clearly Emma.. but Caroline has a different name and doensn't say anything about her background or anything. Like by hiding this key detail about the character we are playing as is meant to make the player NOT think "hey, the fact they have gone out of there way NOT to tell us alot of stuff.. and hinting at alot of stuff like she appears to know this place, and the local priest thinks they have met before, and she had a headache when she saw the picture of the twins and everything set up like SHE is the twin but doens't know it.. maybe it means she isn't?"... again, I know how hard some of the writing can be for games where some background stuff is optional and the character is in a stressful situration which means she isn't thinking as clearly as people at home playing but still.. come on..
after more stuff and finding out the Anna escape but then was trapped in the hospital and recaptured about 5 years later, with radiation burns and sickness which everyone else seams to come down from even if they are wearing hazmat suits (apart from the priest.. he appears 100% fine with the radiation..) we find that members of the cult who started to get really bad with the radiation, started to 'fuse' with nearby metal in some weird distorted way.. making the creatures you have been fighting (or running) from.. even though they had been surgery worked on.. and you can find places where it took place.. and the Priest appears to be behind it yet it appears he has NO medical training (he is very much acting like a weird catholic priest who later admits he wants to become the ultimate pope and destory all those unworthy priests who think they are really worshiping god) yikes.. Oh but some of his men turned again him.. and they were trapped in a hidden bunker, unable to get out.. but somehow he did.. and somehow he was able to go through a few puzzles which kinda reset in kinda impossible ways behind him.. eh.. Oh and on the VHS.. you also have one set a few days before you arrived, where you met the priest for the first time.. anyway.. before you can get to the bunker, you are able to find where Anna has been hiding, but she destories her own eyes because for some reason, the bunker has two eye scanners which need the twins to open.. but they are either side of the door, so you really need BOTH twins.. and if she destories her eyes, everyone will be safe from the evil in the bunker.. and she has a mirror. but unlike all the others that go to a dark world, it goes to Caroline's bedroom! and Anna's bedroom appears like the dark world version... even down to the point that Anna kinda skinned up a corpse and attached it to her wall.. huh.. You also are able to access a hidden room in the childrens bedroom where you remember YOU are Emma! still no mention of how you were found and raised by someone and lost your memory but oh well..
anyway.. you then find out.. as the only way to open the bunker is with two eyes, that you go back in time and find yourself in the bath! on the vent machine.. and YOU are the person that cuts out your eye.. and leaves no blood.. and doesn't bandage it.. why you were naked in the bath on a vent is never explained.. guess its kinda that the priest wants you go try to surrive the hospital to find a way into the bunker cause, dum-dum-dum, HE knocked you out after luring you to the hospital, and after capturing your sister, so he could get the blood from both twins.. even though he didn't know how to get past the lock.. despite the whole thing that HE Seamed to be the one that designed the system (somehow) and that he could have probebly figured out to cut off one of your eyes (hey, it worked in demolition man).. As you have your memory back you reconigise the priest as your Grandfather!.. finally.. after going after him through the bunker, you find he has your sister tied up and wants you so he can take both your blood cause he needs.. and this is a bit confusing (hell, there are mistakes in the diaries where the Priest finds Anna and says "Now I have found you, As soon as I find Anna, we can perform the ritual", and then the diary goes on to have Anna say "If you find this Emma, run away".. it seams he is so nuts that he doesn't remember which twin is which.. still don't find out WHO cut off his arm and stole his bible which he made a fuss about earlier.. anyway.. you find out your sister who had the radiation sickness? probebly not.. it also warped her like the other creatures, but not as bad. but SHE is the unkillable enemy! .. well, for once, Caroline didn't act like this was a shock and it bloody wasn't.. (also a game which warns about nudity and gore.. and yet not only is Caroline the only girl in the game with nipples (and only briefly) but she doesn't bleed from her eye at all.. the gore is very... toned down.. not a problem but it's kinda is if they were trying to a PG rating instead of an 18.. oh well.. even Resident Evil had more blood on it and the western release of that was not only an 18 but had to censor bits (Oh god! HE is smoking a cigarette!) anyway.. you have picked up a radiation cure which you use to cure Anna, she turns into your double but pretty much shown to already be dead.. but is able to move her arm to cover her tits.. OH and I know i'm not a breast expert (prefering them on the smaller side) but ladies, are your bras in the 90s soo good that your breasts grow in size when you take off your bra? I don't mean spread out as the bra kinda 'pushs' them into a shape.. they appear to KEEP they same shape, just grow a bit larger when naked... weird).. anyway.. behind her she has some wire cutters.. gee.. these would have been soo much help to save Anna when she was locked up and before she got captured..
following your grandfather, he reveals that he has faith and in front of his mutant god monster he thinks his blood alone (probebly because he was one of a pair of twins) would be enough to feed it.... and he cuts both his wrists and bleeds out.. both his real arm and what is meant to be the replacement.. while his blood would have been pumping through this, I did kinda hope for some weird thing where his brother who pretty much died at childbirth, with all the experiments they had been doing (like how you aren't really his granddaughter, you were artificially created and injected into the mother as eggs) would have meant the other arm is in fact, his twins! so two twins blood!.. but they didn't happen.. probebly for the best as it would make no sense but.. oh well.. Oh and one of the diaries points out it need to be MALE twins.. yet female is clearly okay too.. ehuh.
anyway.. god changes abit, priest dies, slightly annoying puzzle to kill monster which.. despite its looks and nature, is pretty easy to kill.. You then go to leave.. something has happend, all the monsters are gone, and some paths are now blocked off (game play reasons so that's.. kinda okay) you go into the room with the VHS projector.. As I had the tape with Anna trapped, and now the bolt cutters to save her, I went into the past again and brought her to the present.. we can then safety leave the place.. and for some reason, Caroline is acting a bit depressed She says that she never should have left (erm.. Emma didn't have a choice.. she was not only the 'evil' twin (yet.. doesn't go anywhere with this story line.. I'm pretty sure it says Emma was the evil acting one and not Anna) but as they were all escaping together, they were attacked and she fell into the water.. then says when she tells Anna the truth and that she is really Emma and stuff, she hopes Anna will forgive her.. why? no clue.. apart from the fact you promise her to save her mother (your mother) who notes already said is completely dead, pretty much even at that point in the past).. anyway, you leave, game over..
I heard there was other endings so I looked up some videos.. if you don't go back to save Anna or inject her with the cure.. as you leave, Mutant Anna appears and kills you.. and if you not only don't save her in the past BUT do inject her with the cure.. you just leave, being a bit upset..
All in all, the game was.. okay.. a few problems, the game breaking bug, there was also a thing where often you would walk up stairs but it didn't change you to 'stair walking up' mode, so you went very VERY slowly.. which in a game where you CAN kill or run (to save ammo), it's a big problem.. the story was okay but just SOOO many plot holes.. sure, I don't want or need my handheld to explain every little thing but.. it sets up major hints and clues and then does nothing with them.. here is a quick list of them:
1) What is the dark world? it is clearly connected to the real world as one affects the other and it PARTLY sets up that some human experiments to create the monsters you find come from there (and you can even find the some monsters in the world) but then it controdits all that saying they are just mutated via diary entries which clearly show it was the evil radiation which mutates
2) does this evil god have something to do with the monsters? it seams it does and it isn't normal radiation but.. is it FROM the dark world and was some how summoned? all they say seams to be about an ancient tribe and finding there ruins (which the ones you kinda find in the game are clearly not as old as the ones written about.. too modern in design)
3) The heart woman.. she appear to have gotten up and left.. mutated? but you ever see her again.. or anything related.. not even like she has gone and you find a monster instead in the room.. nope.. just gone.. in fact, the same happens with 'your' father, Doctor William.. when you come back later, his fresh body is gone..
4) There is alot of hints that people at the hospital were doing surgery even above ground to make monsters.. but these don't add up.. and there is a bit of controdition.. William was kinda a good guy, not knowing about all this evil cult, but other times he seams to have known but thought he was going it for the right reasons? then there is more saying he did nasty stuff after wards just to try to save his wife and kids.. I'm missing something in the logs surely.. Probebly gonna have to boot up the game just to read the diaries again now they are complete to see what I'm missing.
5) You changed the past.. it clearly shows in some points (like you have to charge a car battery, so you take it to the past, put it on charge, come back to it modern (1994) day to find it fully charged) so.. is the fact the hospital appearing more.. calmer and a bit cleaner as you leave when you have Anna with you, because you changed the timeline enough so.. the monsters weren't around? sure, you would still have lost your eye (wait.. you wait up with one eye missing.. you later find out you go back in time to remove it.. but with other time travel issues, like with the battery, you find it isn't on charge until you go back in time and clearly CHANGE things to put it there, so someone ELSE removed your eye originally, but you changed history by removing it yourself before? but then, you were already stripped down, and put in a bath on a vent machine.. with no reason the priest would do that.. I only thought it was because whoever took your eye, wanted you alive.. but nope.... did think it was a bit odd).. anyway, you still would have lost your eye cause you are a 'out of time' version really, but Now Anna was never hiding in the hospital all these years, she just went missing.. So as the only reason the priest lured you there was because he had Anna, He now wouldn't have.. so.. He wasn't killed but is still alive someplace? and you never killed the dark god because you never got access cause Anna and the priest weren't there?
6) Okay, I'm starting to think that.. somehow, Anna (as the unkillable creature) was maybe whatever attacked the priest, took his arm and bible.. but it was clearly soo far gone (and having no eyes) that it doesn't quite make sense.. and if you want to really get picky.. you only find her for the first time when you unlock a puzzle which is what leads to the Doctor's office.. yet the cutscene encounter with the priest which it meant to be BEFORE it, would be.. before it.. so.. somehow she would be trapped there.. or maybe it was the William who attacked the priest? also makes sense.. though not really much clue why even if he wanted to kill the priest.. could have done more then just cut off his arm and seal his bible (which .. by the way, the priest has his bible.. when it's stolen he makes a big fuss about it.. like it was going to be a puzzle item.. nope.. don't see it again. Though William could (and I guess Anna... Maybe) get out of that area since the main office door is locked from the inside where William is.. so he could have attacked Priest, went into the office, locked the door, then drunk the wine which killed him.. but.. seams a bit tricky and William's diary which he was writing AS HE WAS DYING surely would have mentioned something.
well.. the ending cutscene was pretty damn small and short.. I was wondering.. though people seam to say they are a small independant creator, they appear to have done.. a fair bit.. and this game was 2021.. and this year, 2024, a sequel was meant to be coming out.. it's almost December and it's still 'Coming soon 2024'.. huh.. the first preview trailer.. erm.. kinda showed a location and an unseen but known event from the first game.. Like the sequel was really a remake.. (a game called 'Pathologic' did that. they made the original game which was okay but had ALOT of problems mixing between 'scripted story' and 'your actions have a consequence' game. also some of the NPCs looked like they had a range of styles in the texturing) but then they did a demo-remake (which you need to buy to play) and then a complete remake which is meant to fix some of the problems but.. again, it's a sequel which is really a remake.. though it seams this one is a full game.. unlike the demo.. I haven't bothered.. the first game was okay but like I said, too much of a fight between scripted story and 'your actions have a consequence'.. also I was meant to protect some people, I found out one had killed themselves and only then (about half way through the characters story) I found out I had a letters menu where I got letters and notes every day.. which in fact, gave a fair bit of the story ¬_¬ thanks for telling me about that ¬_¬ oh and these letters kinda said that something was happening and you need to check on this person or she'll die, but looking around, her death is scripted reguardless.. so it's just story you are missing more then anything to help you play the game..) well, they released another trailer which.. erm.. I'm not a big fan of some of the character design changes, but most minor and can be chalked down to 'improved graphics' (often an excuse for bad character redesigns) but she is wearing a medical eye patch.. one which kinda hints this new game takes place shortly after the first.. as pretty sure in 1994, she could have a more long term and harder wearing eye cover if some real time had pasted since she had her eye taken out.. maybe America is just weird like that and only wear the temp things all the time? Kinda reminds me of the 'Zero' (Fatal Frame) novel which the Movie (which despite the odd bit isn't too bad) was based on where the main character wears an eye patch during her period cause at those times, she can see 'ghosts' with that eye and she doesn't want to, so she wears an eye patch to cover it up, but it changes.. some time the right eye, some times the left.. they removed the whole eye thing from the film sadly.. there are a number of changes done to the film version where the novel is better.. but on the whole, still good... most people just either moan that it has some christian faith as part backdrop where the games were more Japanese Buddist (but in the games, it's a higher focus on this, in the novel/film, it was just the setting being a catholic girls school) and that it didn't turn into a porno.. There is a fair lesbian favour which.. from my knowledge is kinda.. true to life in that girls of a certain age, when growing up in all girls boarding schools, kinda go through a lesbian 'phase' which either ends up with them being lesbians or just being bisexual for a bit. Same is well known and reported in boys schools.. 1800s England was very famous for it.. Same with prisons.. most of them are only gay as long as that is the only option though.... anyway.. because it was a more matter of fact background for it (with the curse that only affects girls) some people moan it didn't go all the way and have underage sex scenes ¬_¬ stupid people. though 16 isn't underage in the UK.. I think it's kinda not in Japan either but nevermind (no-one tell Tracy Lords that she could have just gone to the UK to make porno instead of lying about her age in the US and making all but 1 of her films into Child rape porn).
anyway, this is besides the point.. there looks to be a sequel.. with the same kinda monsters.. so.. maybe we will get answers? best I can find is it saying Caroline goes to a monstery to save her cursed sister.. well, here is a thing I didn't say.. When Anna was now in the future (so she was still about 10 when her twin sister was.. erm.. 20 I think.. 18 or 20.. oh.. it's American.. the bare tits means she would probebly have been 25..) she said about how she didn't feel right, like she didn't belong there.. which is something Caroline herself had said.. but in a slightly different context.. anyway.. So maybe this is a sequel taking place not long later where we find out more about the dark world and the fact that the twins are genetically created with an 'ancient blood line', who was implanted into the mother.. and all her previous tries failed, but they worked after alot of experiments...
Do I think the game will be out this year? probebly not.. Do I think i'll get it? While there have been some new games I did buy on release.. this is kinda a 'wait till it's on offer' thing..
As I was saying that, I looked around a bit at where I would buy it from and.. mm.. a bit more info.. ehuh.. erm.. right..
"After the Events of the Wildberger Hospital, Caroline yearns for a normal life with her younger sister, Anna (only younger due to the time stuff.. very normal ¬_¬), however, fate has other plans. As Anna falls victim to a mysterious afflication, coughting blood and expericencing blackened eyes and moments of unconsciousness (which sounds like how they described the radiation poisoning which effecting people in the first game.. and which Anna had already been subjected to, just not quite as much as by 5 years later, when she was half way to her mutant form), Conventional remedies prove futile (yep.. there Doctor father spend years making a weird 'blue' antidote to the radiation.. but you used all of it that was left to cure the dead Anna.. none left for the living one.. maybe you should return to get more of the notes which you left behind and with some help, recreate it). In a desperate bit to save her sister, Caroline must turn to the supernatural..."
ehuh.. not alot of new but.. doesn't really sound good in that.. it SOUNDS like it's following on the story and picking up on some threads left behind but then tries to tell you it's NOT what you think... like all the problems with the first game I've just been saying about ^_^
looks like you are now going to the remote southern american town of Puerto Miller (oh god, why is it always former Mexican places these days? what is it with the yanks and places taken from the Mexicans in the various USA v Mexico wars?).. Founded ages ago by the reclusive Ismuit tribe (anything like the Tismet tribe (I think that was the spelling) used in this first game as the background of the twin killing and evil god?) a small religious group that shunned the outside world - The town conceals unspeakable horrors beneath it's ancient exterior.. .. so.. yes then. and Oh look, a puzzle which looks like a mixture between Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee and Henry Wentworth Akeley.. if any of you are well read enough to know what THAT is a reference too..
This was a bit of a long ramblely ramble wasn't it?
short version? good game, a suffers as it if was the first real game a new team created and the plot writer felt they were way smarter then they were and could out think even a kinda basic player who was drawn to the game because it was 'like' old 90s games.. which if they had played, they would pick up on alot of where the story was going (it isn't a ripp-off plot but you can see all the threads being hung in-front of you like you were a cat yet expecting you to be a blind cat that couldn't see them).
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It was on a really good offer the other day so I ended up with a copy of the survival horror game 'Tormented Souls'. Meant to be highly inspired by survival horror of the 90s more then the more awful stuff they became. Set in 1994, you play as Caroline Walker, a very stupid idiot who can't seam to add 2 and 2 together.. I mean, I know there is a thing with game logic and having diaries being more optional collectables which just give backstory more then something the character is required and there fore, the player might not know but still.. she is THICK. Things which you NEED to know in order to be able to complete a puzzle, you complete and then she doesn't know what she has just done.. anyway, she gets a picture which shows two 10 year old (approx) twin girls who look quite a bit like her and she gets a headache.. and there is an address if a hospital on a island, so she goes there to find out what happened to the girls and find them. despite the photo looking a bit old, she thinks they are still.. young..
Anyway, the moment she gets there, she is knocked out and wakes up naked in a bath and attached to a venalator and the hospital with a bandage around her right eye with no sign of blood or anything.. she goes to the mirror, removes the badage and finds her eye I missing.. and in it's place.. a weird.. I think it's meant to be an empty eye socket with the eye lid removed as well.. no blood so it's been well cleaned and cared for but still.. someone clearly did a professional job for some reason..
She also ends up finding not only is the place very run down but there are surgically changed (it makes a point that alot of surgery has been done on them) humans mixed with metal. You probebly haven't noticed, but we already have some major mysteries which... will NEVER get properly solved..
The only living person you find is a weird priest who appears to be very much up to something and doesn't seam to notice some of the weird things going on and is saying.. well, clearly NOT the last rites over a corpse.. He acts like he has met you before but you have never met him (this DOES get solved.. and then more confused).
anyway.. As things go on, you then find you can go into a mirror and enter a 'twisted' version of the world where some things you do effect the real world.. What is this world? you never find out. let, at all. unless I really missed something... But there are a few mirrors in the game which allow you to swap between the real world and this one.. where people are more twisted like the creatures you keep coming across.. like they have been experimented on in this weird world which is kinda giving a huge USA cold-war submarine feel.. well.. I'll tell you now.. this MIGHT make sense and explain the creatures perfectly.. but nope.. one document you find, explains kinda where they really came from but doesn't make too much sense.. I'll get to that real thing a bit later then it comes up ^_^
One puzzle, you find a body of a human who is somehow kinda still alive, despite medical notes saying she is dead, but seams to have died not too long ago cause rigor mortis has set in, and she has an important item in her hands which can't be taken out by the documents who have bone saws and stuff to hand.. yeah.. OH, and the operation that was being done on her? had some of her rib bones removed and her heart taken out.. (if she had been dead for.. say roughtly a day, Rigor mortis would have disapated so it would have fallen out of her hand.. of course, it does partly depend on enviroment but it doesn't seam to be that warm or cold.. so kinda 'normal'. BUT if you go to the other world, you can find a doll in her place which has the chest open.. with no heart.. If you find 2 pieces of a plastic heart in the 'real' world, and then put them into the doll, when you go back to the real world, the woman has her heart now! and you can use a shock machine to cause her heart to briefly beat and she drops the key item.. Then just leave her.. don't worry.. she'll disappear and never been seen again later.. with just Caroline acting shocked that she has gone..
after a little, not too hard computer passcode problem, you find Dr William, the father of the missing twin girls.. (also get shocked by a scary overwait girl who is the games only unkillable creature.. mm.. sounds like plot point). But he is dead. the body still warm.. and his diary appears to have been written on as he was dying.. someone added poison to his wine!.. which he was happily drinking while all these monsters were around.. and it appears William isn't a bad guy in any way.. for some reason.. despite clearly knowing these monsters running around and everything.. Oh well..
now, the puzzle with the heart clearly shows, as she had to know to solve that puzzle, that something which happens in the 'dark' world effects the real world.. later on, she finds that the priest is in shock and has lost an arm.. In the dark world, she finds a maniquin in his place with a missing arm.. and she can find a chest with spare arms.. she is able to attach the new arm and when going to the real world, the priest is now fine! and comments on her having deal with her arm.. she acts confused as she didn't do anything (and she appears to REALLY have no clue that she did anything more then not trusting the priest.. for some reason.. this is the third encounter with him and each one has shown something really wrong with the guy which she refuses to notice).. anyway, he corrects himself and says that William did it.. and she acts shocked that William is someone in the hospital! and he is the father of the twins!.. She asks where William is, and is told in the office.. yep. the office which less and then a hour ago (in real life more then game time) I found him dead ¬_¬.. I saved the game around this time and she made a comment about how she HAS to find William.. BUT I'VE ALREADY FOUND HIS CORPSE!.. if you are going to have such a thing as a plot point, try to set it up so the player can't get access to his corpse until AFTER you have seen the cutscene setting it up like that.. Oh and the game clearly tells you the new arm on the priest Isn't his arm put back, but a replacement arm.. and someone stole his bible he had earlier.. okay..
sigh.. This game has alot of people work on it.. I'm used to playing alot of small time games with a team of.. like 5.. if that (I'm pretty much a 1 person team.. though I can get the odd help in some things).. this team is a bit.. less bothered in that.. well, they use unity as an engine which is fine, yet they have some really basic beginner screw ups.. the controls for the game are either 'tank' controls like all the old decent games, or some modern setup which seams to be all Xbox focused.. yet looking online, while an xbox and PS4 port were planned, they never got released.. so.. why so xbox focused? no clue. you can't customise a gamepad other then two, only slightly different choices, it only tells you keyboard controls in some documents you can find which give hints on what buttons to press.. oh and mouse control.. fine.. I plugged in my game pad and.. nothing.. Looking on line, yep.. the game pad only works IF you unplug your mouse... well.. 1) I'm using a laptop so that isn't gonna happen, then 2) I used a keymapper to use my gamepad as IF it was pressing keyboard buttons.. fine.. could only use 'tank' controls? no problem. Oh but some things you NEED to use the mouse for.. So you might be screwed if you unplug a mouse to use the gamepad.. some options do seam to allow gamepad only (like you CAN use the menus very keys and not mouse but is a bit iffy).. either way, As I couldn't unplug my mouse (I was going gonna disable it just for one game) I couldn't use the gamepad mode anyway..
Oh and I had to cheat.. was the game hard? not really.. it used a limited save system like old games, though it was a bit rarer to find what you needed to save it wasn't amazingly hard.. but there is one enemy who you NEED to kill to get past.. they are attached to a wall and slice up anything trying to go past.. you just can NOT get past them without killing them.. So as I was killing one.. something happened.. he became immortal!.. Caroline will normally autotarget if an enemy is close.. she didn't interact with him at all, as if he was dead but the animation hadn't updated.. I tried ranged and melee weapons.. nothing.... tried exiting the area and coming back but he couldn't be interactied with as if he was dead but the animation hadn't updated.. so I thought, if that's the case, I should be able to walk past him.. Nope.. accessed the dev debug menu, made myself invinceable and he would still attack and push me back.. so I had to warp into the room he was guarding.. this is called a game breaking bug.. I would either have to start the game all over again (a few hours of play) and hope it never happened again, or just warped as if i did go through the door (by the way, I then returned through the door, to solve the unlock puzzle which I had everything to do but couldn't get to, so i could open the door correctly.. since there was a backdoor which I now was able to unlock too, I just had to go the long way around each time..
anyway, back to the plot.. we find the operating room where the priest said the girls might be.. for some reason.. they aren't.. but you see a weird monster (who doesn't appear anywhere else it seam) walking around a copse and the priest refuses to admit there is anything there.. when you go into that room, he was right.. there is nothing there.. huh.. not.. not too long later, we have VHS tapes! which we find act like the mirrors.. but instead of traveling to a dark version of the world, take you back in time to wherever it was a recording off.. one of these tapes, you can find Anna! one of the two missing girls.. who somehow escaped at one point, then came back to leave bits of her diary around the house, before being captured again.. you try to help her escape but it ... well, she does escape, but it's a few days later.. where she hasn't had any food or water for some days and is fine.. but anyway, she escapes and goes into hiding..
now.. (I'm skipping some details and stuff) you start to find out her grandfather is behind an evil cult who wants to kill the children for there dark radicative god.. to be reborn.. And you have also found out that this grandfather is the Priest! But.. Caroline doesn't pick up on this.. at all.. I mean.. it's POSSIBLE they aren't the same but.. at this point, with him being the only living guy around, and the diary entries all saying the mothers father, who is the local priest, is a nut job that used to whip her 'for her sins' and kidnapped her and the twins to kill for the god, and the priest saying he was the local priest.. yeah.. only an idiot Wouldn't have put two and two together.. like Caroline!.. and you find out one of the twins (Emma) fell of a bridge into the water and was never seen again, but everyone believes she is still alive.. and when Anna and Caroline met, she comments on how she looks somehow familier.. yeah, you are even shown in such a way to show the player, they are both the same.. thus Caroline is clearly Emma.. but Caroline has a different name and doensn't say anything about her background or anything. Like by hiding this key detail about the character we are playing as is meant to make the player NOT think "hey, the fact they have gone out of there way NOT to tell us alot of stuff.. and hinting at alot of stuff like she appears to know this place, and the local priest thinks they have met before, and she had a headache when she saw the picture of the twins and everything set up like SHE is the twin but doens't know it.. maybe it means she isn't?"... again, I know how hard some of the writing can be for games where some background stuff is optional and the character is in a stressful situration which means she isn't thinking as clearly as people at home playing but still.. come on..
after more stuff and finding out the Anna escape but then was trapped in the hospital and recaptured about 5 years later, with radiation burns and sickness which everyone else seams to come down from even if they are wearing hazmat suits (apart from the priest.. he appears 100% fine with the radiation..) we find that members of the cult who started to get really bad with the radiation, started to 'fuse' with nearby metal in some weird distorted way.. making the creatures you have been fighting (or running) from.. even though they had been surgery worked on.. and you can find places where it took place.. and the Priest appears to be behind it yet it appears he has NO medical training (he is very much acting like a weird catholic priest who later admits he wants to become the ultimate pope and destory all those unworthy priests who think they are really worshiping god) yikes.. Oh but some of his men turned again him.. and they were trapped in a hidden bunker, unable to get out.. but somehow he did.. and somehow he was able to go through a few puzzles which kinda reset in kinda impossible ways behind him.. eh.. Oh and on the VHS.. you also have one set a few days before you arrived, where you met the priest for the first time.. anyway.. before you can get to the bunker, you are able to find where Anna has been hiding, but she destories her own eyes because for some reason, the bunker has two eye scanners which need the twins to open.. but they are either side of the door, so you really need BOTH twins.. and if she destories her eyes, everyone will be safe from the evil in the bunker.. and she has a mirror. but unlike all the others that go to a dark world, it goes to Caroline's bedroom! and Anna's bedroom appears like the dark world version... even down to the point that Anna kinda skinned up a corpse and attached it to her wall.. huh.. You also are able to access a hidden room in the childrens bedroom where you remember YOU are Emma! still no mention of how you were found and raised by someone and lost your memory but oh well..
anyway.. you then find out.. as the only way to open the bunker is with two eyes, that you go back in time and find yourself in the bath! on the vent machine.. and YOU are the person that cuts out your eye.. and leaves no blood.. and doesn't bandage it.. why you were naked in the bath on a vent is never explained.. guess its kinda that the priest wants you go try to surrive the hospital to find a way into the bunker cause, dum-dum-dum, HE knocked you out after luring you to the hospital, and after capturing your sister, so he could get the blood from both twins.. even though he didn't know how to get past the lock.. despite the whole thing that HE Seamed to be the one that designed the system (somehow) and that he could have probebly figured out to cut off one of your eyes (hey, it worked in demolition man).. As you have your memory back you reconigise the priest as your Grandfather!.. finally.. after going after him through the bunker, you find he has your sister tied up and wants you so he can take both your blood cause he needs.. and this is a bit confusing (hell, there are mistakes in the diaries where the Priest finds Anna and says "Now I have found you, As soon as I find Anna, we can perform the ritual", and then the diary goes on to have Anna say "If you find this Emma, run away".. it seams he is so nuts that he doesn't remember which twin is which.. still don't find out WHO cut off his arm and stole his bible which he made a fuss about earlier.. anyway.. you find out your sister who had the radiation sickness? probebly not.. it also warped her like the other creatures, but not as bad. but SHE is the unkillable enemy! .. well, for once, Caroline didn't act like this was a shock and it bloody wasn't.. (also a game which warns about nudity and gore.. and yet not only is Caroline the only girl in the game with nipples (and only briefly) but she doesn't bleed from her eye at all.. the gore is very... toned down.. not a problem but it's kinda is if they were trying to a PG rating instead of an 18.. oh well.. even Resident Evil had more blood on it and the western release of that was not only an 18 but had to censor bits (Oh god! HE is smoking a cigarette!) anyway.. you have picked up a radiation cure which you use to cure Anna, she turns into your double but pretty much shown to already be dead.. but is able to move her arm to cover her tits.. OH and I know i'm not a breast expert (prefering them on the smaller side) but ladies, are your bras in the 90s soo good that your breasts grow in size when you take off your bra? I don't mean spread out as the bra kinda 'pushs' them into a shape.. they appear to KEEP they same shape, just grow a bit larger when naked... weird).. anyway.. behind her she has some wire cutters.. gee.. these would have been soo much help to save Anna when she was locked up and before she got captured..
following your grandfather, he reveals that he has faith and in front of his mutant god monster he thinks his blood alone (probebly because he was one of a pair of twins) would be enough to feed it.... and he cuts both his wrists and bleeds out.. both his real arm and what is meant to be the replacement.. while his blood would have been pumping through this, I did kinda hope for some weird thing where his brother who pretty much died at childbirth, with all the experiments they had been doing (like how you aren't really his granddaughter, you were artificially created and injected into the mother as eggs) would have meant the other arm is in fact, his twins! so two twins blood!.. but they didn't happen.. probebly for the best as it would make no sense but.. oh well.. Oh and one of the diaries points out it need to be MALE twins.. yet female is clearly okay too.. ehuh.
anyway.. god changes abit, priest dies, slightly annoying puzzle to kill monster which.. despite its looks and nature, is pretty easy to kill.. You then go to leave.. something has happend, all the monsters are gone, and some paths are now blocked off (game play reasons so that's.. kinda okay) you go into the room with the VHS projector.. As I had the tape with Anna trapped, and now the bolt cutters to save her, I went into the past again and brought her to the present.. we can then safety leave the place.. and for some reason, Caroline is acting a bit depressed She says that she never should have left (erm.. Emma didn't have a choice.. she was not only the 'evil' twin (yet.. doesn't go anywhere with this story line.. I'm pretty sure it says Emma was the evil acting one and not Anna) but as they were all escaping together, they were attacked and she fell into the water.. then says when she tells Anna the truth and that she is really Emma and stuff, she hopes Anna will forgive her.. why? no clue.. apart from the fact you promise her to save her mother (your mother) who notes already said is completely dead, pretty much even at that point in the past).. anyway, you leave, game over..
I heard there was other endings so I looked up some videos.. if you don't go back to save Anna or inject her with the cure.. as you leave, Mutant Anna appears and kills you.. and if you not only don't save her in the past BUT do inject her with the cure.. you just leave, being a bit upset..
All in all, the game was.. okay.. a few problems, the game breaking bug, there was also a thing where often you would walk up stairs but it didn't change you to 'stair walking up' mode, so you went very VERY slowly.. which in a game where you CAN kill or run (to save ammo), it's a big problem.. the story was okay but just SOOO many plot holes.. sure, I don't want or need my handheld to explain every little thing but.. it sets up major hints and clues and then does nothing with them.. here is a quick list of them:
1) What is the dark world? it is clearly connected to the real world as one affects the other and it PARTLY sets up that some human experiments to create the monsters you find come from there (and you can even find the some monsters in the world) but then it controdits all that saying they are just mutated via diary entries which clearly show it was the evil radiation which mutates
2) does this evil god have something to do with the monsters? it seams it does and it isn't normal radiation but.. is it FROM the dark world and was some how summoned? all they say seams to be about an ancient tribe and finding there ruins (which the ones you kinda find in the game are clearly not as old as the ones written about.. too modern in design)
3) The heart woman.. she appear to have gotten up and left.. mutated? but you ever see her again.. or anything related.. not even like she has gone and you find a monster instead in the room.. nope.. just gone.. in fact, the same happens with 'your' father, Doctor William.. when you come back later, his fresh body is gone..
4) There is alot of hints that people at the hospital were doing surgery even above ground to make monsters.. but these don't add up.. and there is a bit of controdition.. William was kinda a good guy, not knowing about all this evil cult, but other times he seams to have known but thought he was going it for the right reasons? then there is more saying he did nasty stuff after wards just to try to save his wife and kids.. I'm missing something in the logs surely.. Probebly gonna have to boot up the game just to read the diaries again now they are complete to see what I'm missing.
5) You changed the past.. it clearly shows in some points (like you have to charge a car battery, so you take it to the past, put it on charge, come back to it modern (1994) day to find it fully charged) so.. is the fact the hospital appearing more.. calmer and a bit cleaner as you leave when you have Anna with you, because you changed the timeline enough so.. the monsters weren't around? sure, you would still have lost your eye (wait.. you wait up with one eye missing.. you later find out you go back in time to remove it.. but with other time travel issues, like with the battery, you find it isn't on charge until you go back in time and clearly CHANGE things to put it there, so someone ELSE removed your eye originally, but you changed history by removing it yourself before? but then, you were already stripped down, and put in a bath on a vent machine.. with no reason the priest would do that.. I only thought it was because whoever took your eye, wanted you alive.. but nope.... did think it was a bit odd).. anyway, you still would have lost your eye cause you are a 'out of time' version really, but Now Anna was never hiding in the hospital all these years, she just went missing.. So as the only reason the priest lured you there was because he had Anna, He now wouldn't have.. so.. He wasn't killed but is still alive someplace? and you never killed the dark god because you never got access cause Anna and the priest weren't there?
6) Okay, I'm starting to think that.. somehow, Anna (as the unkillable creature) was maybe whatever attacked the priest, took his arm and bible.. but it was clearly soo far gone (and having no eyes) that it doesn't quite make sense.. and if you want to really get picky.. you only find her for the first time when you unlock a puzzle which is what leads to the Doctor's office.. yet the cutscene encounter with the priest which it meant to be BEFORE it, would be.. before it.. so.. somehow she would be trapped there.. or maybe it was the William who attacked the priest? also makes sense.. though not really much clue why even if he wanted to kill the priest.. could have done more then just cut off his arm and seal his bible (which .. by the way, the priest has his bible.. when it's stolen he makes a big fuss about it.. like it was going to be a puzzle item.. nope.. don't see it again. Though William could (and I guess Anna... Maybe) get out of that area since the main office door is locked from the inside where William is.. so he could have attacked Priest, went into the office, locked the door, then drunk the wine which killed him.. but.. seams a bit tricky and William's diary which he was writing AS HE WAS DYING surely would have mentioned something.
well.. the ending cutscene was pretty damn small and short.. I was wondering.. though people seam to say they are a small independant creator, they appear to have done.. a fair bit.. and this game was 2021.. and this year, 2024, a sequel was meant to be coming out.. it's almost December and it's still 'Coming soon 2024'.. huh.. the first preview trailer.. erm.. kinda showed a location and an unseen but known event from the first game.. Like the sequel was really a remake.. (a game called 'Pathologic' did that. they made the original game which was okay but had ALOT of problems mixing between 'scripted story' and 'your actions have a consequence' game. also some of the NPCs looked like they had a range of styles in the texturing) but then they did a demo-remake (which you need to buy to play) and then a complete remake which is meant to fix some of the problems but.. again, it's a sequel which is really a remake.. though it seams this one is a full game.. unlike the demo.. I haven't bothered.. the first game was okay but like I said, too much of a fight between scripted story and 'your actions have a consequence'.. also I was meant to protect some people, I found out one had killed themselves and only then (about half way through the characters story) I found out I had a letters menu where I got letters and notes every day.. which in fact, gave a fair bit of the story ¬_¬ thanks for telling me about that ¬_¬ oh and these letters kinda said that something was happening and you need to check on this person or she'll die, but looking around, her death is scripted reguardless.. so it's just story you are missing more then anything to help you play the game..) well, they released another trailer which.. erm.. I'm not a big fan of some of the character design changes, but most minor and can be chalked down to 'improved graphics' (often an excuse for bad character redesigns) but she is wearing a medical eye patch.. one which kinda hints this new game takes place shortly after the first.. as pretty sure in 1994, she could have a more long term and harder wearing eye cover if some real time had pasted since she had her eye taken out.. maybe America is just weird like that and only wear the temp things all the time? Kinda reminds me of the 'Zero' (Fatal Frame) novel which the Movie (which despite the odd bit isn't too bad) was based on where the main character wears an eye patch during her period cause at those times, she can see 'ghosts' with that eye and she doesn't want to, so she wears an eye patch to cover it up, but it changes.. some time the right eye, some times the left.. they removed the whole eye thing from the film sadly.. there are a number of changes done to the film version where the novel is better.. but on the whole, still good... most people just either moan that it has some christian faith as part backdrop where the games were more Japanese Buddist (but in the games, it's a higher focus on this, in the novel/film, it was just the setting being a catholic girls school) and that it didn't turn into a porno.. There is a fair lesbian favour which.. from my knowledge is kinda.. true to life in that girls of a certain age, when growing up in all girls boarding schools, kinda go through a lesbian 'phase' which either ends up with them being lesbians or just being bisexual for a bit. Same is well known and reported in boys schools.. 1800s England was very famous for it.. Same with prisons.. most of them are only gay as long as that is the only option though.... anyway.. because it was a more matter of fact background for it (with the curse that only affects girls) some people moan it didn't go all the way and have underage sex scenes ¬_¬ stupid people. though 16 isn't underage in the UK.. I think it's kinda not in Japan either but nevermind (no-one tell Tracy Lords that she could have just gone to the UK to make porno instead of lying about her age in the US and making all but 1 of her films into Child rape porn).
anyway, this is besides the point.. there looks to be a sequel.. with the same kinda monsters.. so.. maybe we will get answers? best I can find is it saying Caroline goes to a monstery to save her cursed sister.. well, here is a thing I didn't say.. When Anna was now in the future (so she was still about 10 when her twin sister was.. erm.. 20 I think.. 18 or 20.. oh.. it's American.. the bare tits means she would probebly have been 25..) she said about how she didn't feel right, like she didn't belong there.. which is something Caroline herself had said.. but in a slightly different context.. anyway.. So maybe this is a sequel taking place not long later where we find out more about the dark world and the fact that the twins are genetically created with an 'ancient blood line', who was implanted into the mother.. and all her previous tries failed, but they worked after alot of experiments...
Do I think the game will be out this year? probebly not.. Do I think i'll get it? While there have been some new games I did buy on release.. this is kinda a 'wait till it's on offer' thing..
As I was saying that, I looked around a bit at where I would buy it from and.. mm.. a bit more info.. ehuh.. erm.. right..
"After the Events of the Wildberger Hospital, Caroline yearns for a normal life with her younger sister, Anna (only younger due to the time stuff.. very normal ¬_¬), however, fate has other plans. As Anna falls victim to a mysterious afflication, coughting blood and expericencing blackened eyes and moments of unconsciousness (which sounds like how they described the radiation poisoning which effecting people in the first game.. and which Anna had already been subjected to, just not quite as much as by 5 years later, when she was half way to her mutant form), Conventional remedies prove futile (yep.. there Doctor father spend years making a weird 'blue' antidote to the radiation.. but you used all of it that was left to cure the dead Anna.. none left for the living one.. maybe you should return to get more of the notes which you left behind and with some help, recreate it). In a desperate bit to save her sister, Caroline must turn to the supernatural..."
ehuh.. not alot of new but.. doesn't really sound good in that.. it SOUNDS like it's following on the story and picking up on some threads left behind but then tries to tell you it's NOT what you think... like all the problems with the first game I've just been saying about ^_^
looks like you are now going to the remote southern american town of Puerto Miller (oh god, why is it always former Mexican places these days? what is it with the yanks and places taken from the Mexicans in the various USA v Mexico wars?).. Founded ages ago by the reclusive Ismuit tribe (anything like the Tismet tribe (I think that was the spelling) used in this first game as the background of the twin killing and evil god?) a small religious group that shunned the outside world - The town conceals unspeakable horrors beneath it's ancient exterior.. .. so.. yes then. and Oh look, a puzzle which looks like a mixture between Major Sir Eric Moreland Clapham-Lee and Henry Wentworth Akeley.. if any of you are well read enough to know what THAT is a reference too..
This was a bit of a long ramblely ramble wasn't it?
short version? good game, a suffers as it if was the first real game a new team created and the plot writer felt they were way smarter then they were and could out think even a kinda basic player who was drawn to the game because it was 'like' old 90s games.. which if they had played, they would pick up on alot of where the story was going (it isn't a ripp-off plot but you can see all the threads being hung in-front of you like you were a cat yet expecting you to be a blind cat that couldn't see them).
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