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It also seems to be trying to cram in as many stolen ideas from its influences as it can – you have to go to a Silent Hill-esque evil rusty dark world version of the hospital on two brief occasions, but it was evil science experiments horror up to then, you can’t just right turn into Hellraiser reality embuggerance horror and then left turn straight back again like a lost dad on a poorly signposted highway junction. Also there’s cults and really illogical locking mechanisms and I guessed the secret twist of the main character’s origin within the first thirty seconds.
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Main character seems to have the acting range of a wank sock and gets her tits out in literally her second scene of the game – more a movie horror cliche I suppose but fuck it, pile it on. Monsters are all abominations of humanity who look like they got their brain surgery done by a forgetful orthodontist, check. Wake up in an abandoned hospital with no memory, check. It wasn’t the fucking story, which is so achingly generic it’s like it’s trying to set a record for the Guinness Book of Things That Are So Lazy I Can’t Be Bothered To Finish This Joke Properly. Bit of a reverse difficulty curve issue, but I have to admit I was somewhat engaged with the gameplay by then, either out of nostalgia for the old Silent Hills or a sheer bloody-minded unwillingness to go back to playing Lost Judgment. But I started again and powered through and by the end of the game I had enough ammo to make combat trivial and I was having to sell off unused save tokens as gently used drinks coasters. “Why can’t I save whenever I want? What if my pet chinchilla suddenly goes into labour?” Don’t blame me, blame deliberate homage! I ragequit after my first attempt because I used the first save game token I found way too early and kept getting killed because combat’s like trying to disentangle two dog leashes with both your hands trapped in Pringles tubes DELIBERATE HOMAGE Oh piss off.
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“Why can’t I angle the camera to look at the thing that’s about to twat me across the room?” Because it’s a deliberate homage to retro fixed camera horror games! “Why does the camera angle keep suddenly reversing and making me spin on my heel and sprint right back into the monster I’m trying to flee like a nervous deer at a busy junction?” Deliberate homage retro horror! View Full Transcript If this were 1999, that is, because Fermented Balls is deliberately aping old PS1 era Resident Evil Alone in the Dark fixed camera games and if you’ve only played modern horror games where you walk through a funhouse hall of mirrors for two hours then get a participation award then you’re going to fucking hate it.
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Starting with Tormented Souls, which as you might have guessed from the title is without hyperbole the most generic survival horror game in the universe. Can’t cover them all but gratifyingly I can selectively highlight the ones that actually stirred something in me, whether that be admiration or a second round of contemptful wee wee.
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I played the first hour of like nine different games this week, it’s been like speed dating but where you get to piss on their face. Well I guess the release drought’s officially over, we’ve had so many review codes come into Escapist Towers we’ve had to sell some of them off as gently used wi-fi passwords. We have a merch store as well! Visit the store for brand new ZP merch. Want to watch Zero Punctuation ad-free? Sign-up for The Escapist + today and support your favorite content creators! This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Tormented Souls and The Artful Escape.