Recent reviews by ♥Kai♥

I really wanted to like this game. I've been trying to get into horror games as of late and I'd heard nothing but praise for Puppet Combo's games. And since this was the latest release from them I thought I'd give it a go.

The game starts out as genuinely fairly creepy in act one, though I really wasn't a fan of how long it took for progression triggers to occur. I also had trouble working out where to put some of the items back where they belonged, but that could just be a me thing.

The second act was also frustrating. Like act one, it started out with a great vibe and atmosphere, but it quickly turned into frustration as I had a lot of trouble finding the TINY path in the wheat field behind the red ute. It took me 20 minutes to find that opening, and I only did so after hugging the wall. It was reeeally hard to see. After that it was smooth again and the atmosphere came back.

Act 3 is where I gave up. I understood what the game was trying to accomplish. It's clearly trying to take the first part of RE7 and turn it into a whole ass game, and that's a fantastic concept. But man... I can't help but feel like either my game is bugged or I was doing something wrong. I'll list my issues in dot points:

-Granny's wheelchair makes.. NO noise. At all. I don't know if this is intentional but I got caught by her constantly because she'd sneak up on me.
-An addendum to granny, she's also REALLY FAST. I also don't know if this is intentional but combined with the sheer silence of her wheelcheer she also comes tokyo drifting around corners at a ridiculous speed, giving me little time to react if I'm doing something else.
-The butcher does make noise.. sometimes. Sometimes I can hear him stomping around the house, and sometimes I can't. It could be an immersion thing, like I'm too focused on a lock or something to hear him but I don't think that's the case. He's fine, otherwise.
-Jumping up into vents is really hard and the controls for this, specifically, are confusing. I thought I'd worked out that you have to hold space but that doesn't always work, so I end up in a panic and either have to run off somewhere else or just get caught.
-Returning to volume, some sounds were REALLY LOUD and others were quiet. For example, the first time you get caught, removing the door pins makes an ear piercing noise that actually hurt , whereas other things are just weirdly quiet, including some dialogue in Night Shift.

I reaaaally want to like this game and I'm willing to give it another shot at another point in time, but I really don't like having my time wasted. The stealth just needs so much more work. I hate that I didn't enjoy this. Maybe I'm too impatient for a horror/stealth immersion sim but being frustrated just killed the entire vibe of the game, where there was potential to really feel terrified.