I'd say keep playing. It's use and purpose become less of a gimmick and more of a defining character/part of the game with steadily increasing value
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It wasn't the shield it was finding stuff to load up energy.
The first 30 minutes make a great visual impression but the longer I spend in hallways and rooms experiencing the actual game mechanics the less I'm into it. The game restricts your ability to run a bit too often, which makes the plodding pace of movement frustrating.
It hasn't bugged me too bad, but I noticed this too in the earlier areas. Other than making sure you didn't run past things while still learning, there wasn't always a clear reason that running wasn't available, other than mood.
I am getting a game breaking bug that won't let me proceed:
I am walking through the forest on the way to the red room and I hit Y to step up into a ledge next to a broken bridge. She steps up but physically won't proceed any further. She just runs in place. I am on the latest patch.
So... it's not bad.
It's actually so old fashioned it feels fresh again in a few ways and it's intriguing enough I can see myself completing it.
I predicted high 60/low 70 MC a long time ago; turned out to be more or less accurate, but still the game is somewhat better than i expected, or at least it has certain qualities and charm to it.
It's actually so old fashioned it feels fresh again in a few ways and it's intriguing enough I can see myself completing it.
I predicted high 60/low 70 MC a long time ago; turned out to be more or less accurate, but still the game is somewhat better than i expected, or at least it has certain qualities and charm to it.
I didn't read all the reviews, but what did the people who gave this a 3/10 say about it? As divisive as this game is a 3/10 seems like a comical stretch.
Finished this game and honestly, it's pretty average/mediocre. It doesn't really do anything interesting with any of the tools it's presenting. The puzzles are never engaging, it bizarrely spends a lot of time away from our main character (for little benefit), it muddles with child abuse for what feels like shock value. The story just doesn't go anywhere interesting or compelling. The reveals aren't shocking. And it ends on a weird note.
I really disliked how often the game seemed to introduce a mechanic for the sole purpose of solving of a puzzle that the game invented on the spot. It ruined the cohesiveness of the experience. Things just happen randomly because they have to happen.
The entire opening 2-3 hours were fairly strong, but once they really started layering on mechanics and giving you discreet puzzles to solve--it started to lose me. My main gripe here is that, a lot of the time it doesn't feel like you're solving a puzzle. Instead, you're just moving through an area interacting with everything until you find the thing you need then moving on until the game shuffles you to the place where you have to use the item. Then the Thing happens and you completed the puzzle. And worse yet, when the game breaks this mold...what there instead a fairly simple puzzle that is just there.
Uhh, so it's fine? Not terrible. Has some fun interactions between Marianne and Sadness but not much else.
I really disliked how often the game seemed to introduce a mechanic for the sole purpose of solving of a puzzle that the game invented on the spot. It ruined the cohesiveness of the experience. Things just happen randomly because they have to happen.
The entire opening 2-3 hours were fairly strong, but once they really started layering on mechanics and giving you discreet puzzles to solve--it started to lose me. My main gripe here is that, a lot of the time it doesn't feel like you're solving a puzzle. Instead, you're just moving through an area interacting with everything until you find the thing you need then moving on until the game shuffles you to the place where you have to use the item. Then the Thing happens and you completed the puzzle. And worse yet, when the game breaks this mold...what there instead a fairly simple puzzle that is just there.
Uhh, so it's fine? Not terrible. Has some fun interactions between Marianne and Sadness but not much else.
Well this is odd, everything so far has been super easy, but I'm weirdly stuck... I mean I'm not, 'cause I can see exactly what I need to do to progress and know it in my head, I just can't get the game to register than I know, I'm missing something obvious and it's frustrating.
So I'm in the conference room, I know my guy is sat over from Boris, so he's Nicholas. But I go to the body and she acts like I don't know this. Been back and forth a few times and gone through examining the chairs, the ash tray and the list of names over and over... so what am I missing?
Seems like the worst reviews criticize the game as being too boring.
You need to go back to the note on the table and it will give you another option to hit X on the name Boris, then go to the chair that Nicholas is in, examine it, return to the note and hit X on Nicholas' name. I had the same problem. Its a bit cumbersome
Thanks for the reply.
I've definitely done that, chair number 4, that's how I know it's Nicholas on the list. When I examine it it says it's chair 4 but nothing else, just like all the other charis.
Think it's bugged somehow.
I've definitely done that, chair number 4, that's how I know it's Nicholas on the list. When I examine it it says it's chair 4 but nothing else, just like all the other charis.
Think it's bugged somehow.
Checked list, examined all the charis, examined ash tray got message, checked list to see where Boris was sat, looked over to chair 4, but I can't do anything else. I know he's Nicholas, can't get game to let me say I do.
I so know I didn't examine a telephone outside the room until I'd already been in there, the call was saying he could hear the meeting happening over there but I'd already been in and checked everything out before I found it. I thought I was missing something and went and did all the balerina girl stuff next to him and got her out of the way but I've been back and forth for an hour and a half and just can't trigger any progress. Game says last save "1 hours ago" so I think I've got the balerina stuff saved, but really don't want to risk having to do it again 'cause that stealth stuff wasn't fun lol
EDIT: I just tried again and saw the X on Boris. FML
thanks! hahaha
Lol took me a sec too! Glad it worked out for you and wasn't bugged.
Only 2 hours lol. As she said when she picked up the thing we'd been looking for shortly afterwards "yes! Fucking finally!"... she felt my pain ;-)
I am about 3 hours in an I am enjoying this immensely. I don't have any super hot takes or assessments about its overall design yet, but it is a weird and interesting release in a modern context. This game is very much the kind of thing I imagined when, in 2003-04, I was trying to imagine what "next gen gaming" would be like. It is very fascinating and refreshing.
I'm finished with this game (3-4 hours in). It's a mediocre game at best. The gameplay loop of just walking, reading and listening is bothersome. Puzzles and stealth/hiding mechanics are clunky and way to simplistic to me. No, it's not a good game.
Still hope some people can enjoy it.
Still hope some people can enjoy it.
Did anyone else have a big issue with:
Running from the first big monster guy? At the end of the first chase, the room splits off three ways, forward towards him, left into moths and then also right into moths. I literally redid that entire section 4 times trying to figure out where to go. Why does the entire chase teach you to turn left and right AWAY from the moths and then at the end you have to turn left INTO moths to finish the chase??? Did they test this?? or am i just stupid
Story seems better than Blair Witch, worse than Observer. I'm only ~4 hours in.
Well I'm glad to hear it's not as bad as Blair Witch!
God I was so excited for that game :(
im finishing it since im already about half way done i think but yea most of the "puzzles" are just checking everything in a room.
Blair Witch was one of the most boring horror games I played last gen, glad I got to try it through game pass.
The performance was also all over the place, it felt like ~25fps on Xbox One X.
I thought that story was pretty poorly told. It doesn't know what to focus on and keeps introducing things that don't really add anything.
I still don't know what I did differently when I did it right to the 4 times I failed last night and the 2 I failed this afternoon before getting past it. Not a clue. Shrugged and carried on.
Game is a total slideshow on a 3080 even with DLSS on. :/ Tempted the just play on Series X if saves transfer over.
I repeated this almost ten times before I looked up a walkthrough video. It's such a badly designed section and I have no idea how you're supposed to figure that out by yourself.
this took me about 6 tries of trial and error and even one time I thought I did everything perfectly and I still lost? Lol
Slideshow...? That shouldn't be the case at all, especially on a 3080. What res are you running it at? Are you on the latest drivers?
If I feel it's a cool concept but not feeling the overall sluggish ness is it worth it? Keep in mind I'm only 30 minutes in. I don't mind slow games but this seems......excessive
4k with DLSS on using the latest drivers. Everytime i walk into a new area or look at any item the fps goes into the single digits.
I have the exact same setup and I'm still debating it. I can get 60 fps on the 3080 if I turn off RTX, so I think that's what I'm going to do. However, I will likely switch back and forth depending upon whether I want the comfier couch.
How far back did you go? I've been reloading the start of that same level and still the same thing.
Edit: Ok so I went one further back and that did it. Thanks!
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Yeah, it's like a telltale/QD game without the multiple branching paths.
there are two kinds of people who claim to be silent hill fans, those who are fans of the games and those who are fans of the memes of the games that spawned from 4chan (you know the ones) from literally everything I've ever read of bloober team, they're the 4chan meme sh2 kind of fans