Today's review will be game based. I was stuck with two games to review, and I was undecided up until about an hour ago with which one would I go with. However, I decided that I will review the other game the next time a game review comes up. But for now, I'm going to go with....
I had high hopes for this game. I first saw the trailer on YouTube and I thought hmm yea this looks like a good one, so I ended up buying it on PS3 from my local supermarket. I myself is more of a story person rather than a multi-player gamer, which meant that this game fit me perfectly. Also this game has two types of themes which is detective work and is also a horror type game that are two favourites of mine to play. So just by looking at this game, I thought that this would be one of the best games of the year for me to play.
Boy was I wrong...
On the outset, the game is Set in the famous town of Salem Massachusetts , and you play as the protagonist, Ronan O'Connor throughout the game. Basically, your job is to try and figure out the serial killer's identity. The only thing is that you're doing the detective work...as a ghost. In the opening scene, the serial killer wastes no time in throwing you out the window and also shooting you to make sure you're dead. Lovely. After your death, there is a cut scene where Ronan's wife makes one of her rare appearances in the story to tell him that he cant join her until he has completed his 'unfinished business', which in the end becomes the story that we embark on throughout the game. With the help of a teenage girl (who happens to be a medium and can see ghosts) by the name of Joy Foster, together they go on this LITTLE adventure to figure out who murdered you.
As a ghost, you mainly wasn't limited to where you could go, because you're a ghost at the end of the day and ghosts can travel mostly anywhere... apart from one small detail. Unless you make someone open a main door for you to pass through. You cannot enter. I for one thought that ghosts can travel through any door you wanted, but nope you're not allowed.
Secondly, the game liked to repeat some of the missions when you do get into a building, when from then on, you can pass through any wall and any door you please (why thank you for being generous). This came in the form of these evil spirit type entities that liked to prey on 'pure souls' if you want to call it that. The only way for you to 'kill' them is by sneaking up on them without them noticing and getting them that way. That's it. Try not to make it any more difficult for us why don't you, but I'll have more detail on difficulty later. The next thing which recurs a lot, which was the only relevant thing and less annoying parts of the game was the decision making points of the game. Your job was to, as a detective, come to some decision into what the right parts of the case is relevant to you finding your killer. Therefore, you had to choose three bits of information, which in searching for evidence from the likes of rooms and bodies, to come to some conclusion to which path you need to go on next. I didn't mind to do this, but to a point. I may have said this was one of the 'less' annoying parts, didn't mean I enjoyed doing it over and over again.
Lastly, I come to the trophies. I have NEVER in my like played a game where it was so EASY to pick up a trophy. For example, you complete something as little as an interrogation and get the three parts to the information right, you receive a trophy. You could easily complete all trophies in this game, and even if you didn't before the final 'battle' scene (if I can call it that) it gives you an opportunity to complete them if you missed some as it doesn't let you go back to town once the final sequence is played. In my opinion, I think that's a bit stupid.
So overall, If I wasn't stupid enough to not watch the game play of this game before I bought it, I wouldn't have got it. The game is a bit too simplistic for my liking and I expected it to be HARDER than what it was. As I said before, the trophies are too easy to earn and also the repetitiveness in the game gets to boring and annoying for me to even be interested in playing the game again. Basically, as the story progresses, you just repeat things but in different situations, like they may increase the evil spirits in one level and not have as many in another. Well, it's okay doing that, but at least make it harder for us to kill them, because it's too easy. The final point that I want to make is that the story was too short. I think I might have started and finished this game in two days, baring in mind I stopped playing on one day and started it again the next. I like games which can keep you going with the story for days on end and to not get bored, but I'm afraid this game comes up short.
Thank you for reading, and I hope you like it. Like yesterday, I'll leave the trailer for the game below if you wish to see it...
All the best,
Jodie x
Disclaimer: No one asked me to review this, all thoughts and opinions are my own.
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