3/2/2023 0 Comments Tormented souls developers![]() I also loved that this is a chilean game. ![]() Why not GamerFocus? Because a colleague reviewed the PS5 version months ago (and didn't liked it as much as I did). You can read my full review in spanish in Tribu Gamer. A rehash of gameplay tropes was what they promised and delivered.Īnd I loved it with passion, even with its multiple defects. The fixed camera angles, music, character animations, weird puzzles and cheesy voice acting was just how I remembered in the turn of the century. I didn't realized I miss so much that style of horror games until I played Tormented Souls on my Switch and was invaded with nostalgia. When I was a teenager, I was obsessed with survival horror games like the first Resident Evil games, Silent Hill on PS1 and PS2, Fatal Frame, Forbidden Siren and every other game in the genre I could find. Not only are there plenty of challenges to be found here, but the setting is a memorable one complete with some mildly corny dialogue from time to time to make you feel at home.I fell in love with this game. ![]() Though some additional difficulty options could further spice up the atmosphere, this is a title that fans of the classics in the genre simply can’t miss. Tormented Souls is a very good survival horror title even if supplies are unlikely to be an issue for a veteran player. All in all, few titles in recent years have been able to capture the survival horror spirit this way. Even something as simple as restoring the power or lighting candles feels like an accomplishment as it rids your surroundings of the menacing darkness that will eat you alive if you don’t have any light. The manor has plenty of gore for you to stumble upon and maybe even another terrible dimension for you to play in, as if this one wasn’t cursed enough already. Each area is noticeably different than the others and each new location gave me anxiety as I explored it. The atmosphere of Tormented Souls is its greatest strength – as it should be. …shotgun? I’m not sure this “shotgun” would pass a safety inspection. Fortunately, or perhaps unfortunately for some, the old-school combat design makes fighting challenging enough that you don’t just blow through the manor’s enemies without a little challenge. Supplies never feel truly excessive, but a raw survival horror with few methods of defending yourself this is not. Rushing up and down staircases to avoid a wheelchair abomination later ended in me just unloading a nailgun directly into his dome. I was always lugging around all of the ammo that I had collected as well as whatever story items were required, so rationing and planning quickly fell to the wayside. I realized that I was hoarding as I got further into the adventure and cut back on outmaneuvering enemies and started gunning them down instead. Carrying capacity never becomes an issue here and you always seem to have enough ammunition, healing, and saving items as long as you’re not going hog wild with them. This time around, it’s been lightened quite a bit and is a far less stressful experience. Inventory management played a significant role in Tormented Souls’ forefathers, for better or for worse. Some puzzles will have you baffled at first but feel rewarding once you figure them out. I never felt like I was playing Myst or Doom, but a spiritual successor to the Silent Hillesque classics. The combination of horror action and slowing down to figure things out is balanced skillfully. Though there is quite a difference between the easiest and hardest of these, I found the challenge overall to be tough enough to be rewarding but not straining enough to be stressful. Reading the journals that you find lying around is important not only for building the setting but also for giving you the hints that are needed to progress. Wheelchair freaks and torsos with scythe-like blades will try to cut you down at every turn, but it’s the puzzles that will keep you grounded in the experience. The manor is packed full of locked doors and brain teasers that will keep you thinking as you progress through Caroline’s story as well as a host of deformed monstrosities that will keep you on your toes. The mansion always looks great even if it is covered in gore and failed experiments! From there you wander around a bizarre manor that was converted into a hospital (because, of course) with an oppressive gloom all around you. You take the reins of our heroine, Caroline, just after she follows up on the twins and wakes up in a strange bathroom, missing one of her eyes. How Inconvenientĭon’t you hate it when you receive a photograph with a note from a creepy pair of twins and then you just can’t stop dreaming about them so you go to the horror mansion where they lived? We’ve all been there. If you’ve never been chased by a naked Freddy Krueger in a wheelchair, now’s your chance.
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