This is not the game to play if you have poor aim or believe in killing something until it is deader than dead. Unfortunately, your tools may not have enough ammo to keep you alive. Thankfully you will face enemies and you will have the tools to deal with them. While the atmosphere is creepy enough it would get a bit stale without enemies to run away from and occasionally fight against. It also heightens the tension because your mind cannot help but start to speculate on what may or may not be behind that door.
Not only does this type of design extend the length of the game without requiring the designers to build a gigantic map, openworld game designers please take note, but it rewards the player for their patience and exploration. You will encounter several locked rooms on your journey that you will have to revisit once you solve a puzzle of find a key later in the game. Having only ever played Resident Evil on a friend’s PSOne in high school I can’t attest to how these puzzles fare against both the ones in that game and in the modern game, but for fans of brain teasers, this will provide a satisfying experience.Īnother classic mechanic is the locked room.
Reminding me of the insanely difficult, obtuse but ultimately rewarding puzzles in that other staple of the ‘90s, the Point and Click adventure game, these puzzles provided the impetus to keep pushing to find that next maddening puzzle solution. These puzzles were the aspect of the game design that most attracted me to the game and quite frankly kept me playing through the scary bits. Each room you explore has the potential to halt your progress as the puzzles test your observation skills and your recall. Finding locked doors, bits of lore and clues scattered around the mansion and eventually maps to help guide you. Hearkening back to the classics, exploration is key. Once you gather yourself, your task begins – solve the mystery of the missing twins and more importantly survive. On arrival you are promptly knocked out only to awake in a bathtub with an eye plucked out of your skull for some reason. You start the game having received an invitation to investigate the disappearance of twins at Winterlake mansion. Like that game you are tasked with exploring a spooky mansion. Tormented Souls wears its inspiration on its sleeve – the classic survival horror games of the ‘90s especially Resident Evil. The effect oy in being scared witless while knowing that nothing will happen to you is an interesting feeling. But the experience, virtual though it may be, of exploring a foreboding mansion filled with bloodied medical equipment and monsters borne of experimentation and the supernatural is a visceral one that does appeal to our lizard brains.
I’ve never been a fan of the jump scares and the dark rooms and the ominous atmosphere whether it be in games or films.
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