It's a gloomy place – the game occurs entirely at night – but is well-dotted with NPCs and collectibles. While the game world is small, it is open, with the ability to just wander around the town of Salem. As the investigation progresses, you'll explore a graveyard, an apartment house, an old mansion, a police station and of course the obligatory asylum level. Many supernatural elements come into play – ghosts, witches, demons – and some flashbacks of the witch trials are pretty gruesome (drowning, burning, hanging). Playing as Ronan's ghost, investigate a series of crime scenes (sometimes with the help of teenage medium Joy), searching for identity of the killer. Playing as Ronan's ghost, investigate a series of crime scenes Ronan is a criminal-turned-cop who is killed by the mysterious Bell Killer. Ronan is a criminal-turned-cop who is killed by the mysterious Bell Killer. I do feel the pain if you paid a full $60 for it. You won't feel burned - I might have been pissed if I paid $60 for an interactive movie. Story's too linear for me to even call it an all-out game. As a "GAME" though - in the style of open world playable with character development & such, I'll give it a 6/10. If it were really movie-ish, more of that backstory could have been played out too much is skip-able or miss-able. So this is handily a solid 7/10 in my books - as a movie. You've got the same thing going, but on a different format. But get the pricing into the realm of where it belongs - where other linear progression forms of entertainment are: books & movies. Some of those stupid Hollywood hundred-million blockbusters out there - what do you spend, $20 for a garbage 1 hour movie how many of these trash movies does this game beat? Plenty. $20-30 for something like this, EVERYONE is happy. Interactive movie type games need to be priced more in the MOVIE price range.
In all seriousness, though - Don't call yourself a GAME if you're not one. Anyway - it has collectibles, some side-stories, and a relatively linear gameplay style. Go pick up a Linear Algebra textbook or an encyclopedia & read to your heart's content if you simply can't enjoy a story. while other people want to read about math & molecules. What do you expect? Carl Sagan's Cosmos? Some people like stories.
If you're one of those people that can't get past "IT'S A STORY" - then take it for what it is: "IT'S A STORY." ( See 'primitive storyline' reviews. Certain areas you're 100% locked out of until you complete other parts - can't even explore the areas. Certain areas you're 100% locked out of until you complete Decent interactive-novel type game with a fairly set storyline + gameplay path. Decent interactive-novel type game with a fairly set storyline + gameplay path.
0 kommentar(er)
