1 person found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 2.8 hrs on record (2.2 hrs at review time)
Posted: 8 Jul, 2016 @ 12:30pm
Updated: 8 Jul, 2016 @ 12:32pm

Short horror game with some annoying bugs

This will be a short review because I don´t have so much time. First off, this game is good, but not worth the (now) 6 euros. Really, the dev team made a right step to lower the price a bit, but even 5€ were too much, because you can beat the game in less than 30 minutes, if you´re good in horror games. But not the lengthen but the quality of the game is the crucial factor being responsible for my negative review.

I really liked the idea behind the game. OK, that a random guy who´s in the "I-need-to-get-answers"-mood is stepping through a haunted house is nothing enterily new for a horror game, but the house´s ability (or manor) itself non-mainstream: By finding different little model parts of the manor´s rooms you´re able to explore more of it.
Overall I think the ideas that the guys had are really cool: If you look around you can find books and documents which tell you a bit more about the history of the Kraven family and maybe you´ll find out what could happen to you if you make the wrong desicion(s). I can understand why lots of people like the game and give it a positive review.

But there´s no "middle-rate"-finger and that´s why I have to give, like it or not, a negative review. I fully understand that after a game comes out, you´re not so ambitious as a dev to debug the game you made during a long period of time. But after 2 years, even a game costing 6 bugs does not to have such kind of bugs:

- Picking up items is tricky, sometimes not possible (>Restart)
- Moving backwards through doors is nearly impossible, don´t ask me why (Nightmare Mode ahoy!)
- Some scenes just don´t trigger if you don´t do exactly that what the game is awating (which is annoying because you HAVE those options to move around and that had made the game better. Let me explain: The game wants you to go from A to B. But you have the possiblities to go from A to B, C and D. From C you can go to B. So you think "If I choose A > C > B", the scene will trigger. No, it won´t. (>Restart)).

Even worse, the game (my PC is pretty good) crashes every 20 minutes. Luckily I know the game by heart, that´s why I can complete it within 15 minutes... (For achievements e.g.).

I really don´t like giving negative reviews, but the game will (probably) keep it´s "90% free of bugs" state. That´s why: Please, don´t waste 6 euros on a dead game. If you want to support the devs, allright, but if you´re looking for a cool and quick horror game, do yourself a favor and get it on sale or (even better) in a bundle.

Thanks for reading and have a nice one,

Mike
a.k.a. BlackBurningHaze
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