Each puzzle feels difficult while still clearly conveying what is expected from it (except for one, but I will not spoil it here). Picking up each new item brings a sound cue that feels as if it was pulled straight out of the early 2000s and fits perfectly with the aesthetic of the game. The puzzles in this game are top notch, requiring the player to interpret riddles, work through logic puzzles, and unlock the mansion room by room. Games like this live and die by two things, which will be the focus of this discussion: Puzzle design and tension. Tormented Souls has its own ideas and tone that set the game apart from others in the genre. From its inventory screen to its level design, the game evokes the feeling of the classic Resident Evil experience in every way, even down to the unflattering voicework.įeaturing tank controls and fixed camera angles, the game is a clear love letter to those games of a bygone era, but it does not settle with reusing tired formulae. Taking cues from the Resident Evil and Silent Hill games of the PS1/PS2 era, this game offers a hardcore, back to the basics approach to the survival horror genre. After playing more of the game, however, I began to forget about the unfortunate beginning as I got lost in the world of Tormented Souls. I could not write this preview without mentioning my distaste for its introduction, simply because I want people to be aware of it. Otherwise she deals with the horrors of the game’s setting as they come, barely even phased by the loss of her eye or the fact that she was naked in a bathtub. Caroline from Tormented Souls faces a single grusome incident. Ethan of Resident Evil is a character who goes through impossible ordeals one after the other, as the story ramps up in its insanity. Where Ethan of the Resident Evil franchise faces bodily harm that results in his loss of limbs all the time, it feels earned in those games due to his character and the nature of the story.
Instead, it reads as yet another example in the horror genre that demeans women and brutalizes them for the sake of it.
This nudity and depiction of the respirator does nothing to heighten the tension, build on themes, or do anything meaningful. All of this leads up to her putting clothes on and realizing that one of her eyes have been gouged out. She gets out of the bathtub, allowing ample time for players to see her fully nude character model and watch as she animatedly takes the respirator out from her throat.
The beginning of the game sees the main character knocked out, and placed naked in a bathtub, hooked up to a respirator. Not for any reason that I believe the game wanted me to be, but because of the overt and tasteless nudity that occurs within the first few minutes of the game. When I first started playing the preview build of Tormented Souls, I was disgusted and shocked.
0 kommentar(er)
