I wanted to like this game. I'm not sure exactly WHY I wanted to, but I gave it multiple chances, tried to see some of its flaws as charm and just all around did what I could with it. Ultimately though, it just couldn't keep my attention.

Its positives are an interesting array of supernatural beasties drawing from Indonesian lore. The game can be genuinely creepy at time. It does a good job of capturing the horror feeling.

The flaws all lie in execution. The graphics are largely a blurry, low resolution mess. Linda's model is okay although the screen shots on the store page are carefully selected to make the game look its best. In reality, the game looks like a product for the Playstation 2. Your fellow classmates look laughable. The game's pacing feels off and you spend too long just trotting around. But the worst felt like the controls which often had me over steer or snagged me during fights. Some battles require you to quickly move around and it just wasn't reacting well. Compounding this was a death system where each time you die, you have to run back out from limbo, jogging along a blue strip of light. Unfortunately, each time you die that strip grows longer and it's frustrating to not only feel like you died a cheap death but to now be expected to just jog for 90 seconds before you can play again.

Given better controls and a less punitive system for dying, I might have felt like completing this and been able to enjoy it for what it is. But after my last jog back from the underworld, the game just felt like a waste of time.

I wanted to like this game. I'm not sure exactly WHY I wanted to, but I gave it multiple chances, tried to see some of its flaws as charm and just all around did what I could with it. Ultimately though, it just couldn't keep my attention. Its positives are an interesting array of supernatural beasties drawing from Indonesian lore. The game can be genuinely creepy at time. It does a good job of capturing the horror feeling. The flaws all lie in execution. The graphics are largely a blurry, low resolution mess. Linda's model is okay although the screen shots on the store page are carefully selected to make the game look its best. In reality, the game looks like a product for the Playstation 2. Your fellow classmates look laughable. The game's pacing feels off and you spend too long just trotting around. But the worst felt like the controls which often had me over steer or snagged me during fights. Some battles require you to quickly move around and it just wasn't reacting well. Compounding this was a death system where each time you die, you have to run back out from limbo, jogging along a blue strip of light. Unfortunately, each time you die that strip grows longer and it's frustrating to not only feel like you died a cheap death but to now be expected to just jog for 90 seconds before you can play again. Given better controls and a less punitive system for dying, I might have felt like completing this and been able to enjoy it for what it is. But after my last jog back from the underworld, the game just felt like a waste of time.