Speaking of – the combat system isn’t particularly good, but it’s a decent Silent Hill-like approach with a dodge button. Same went for ammo, even though I might’ve killed every enemy in the game. But still, I had plenty of save items left by the end of the game. Personally, never considered this idea good or useful – genre savvy player will never be affected by the limited amount of saves, while those who are trying to get into it will get discouraged to play. Oh right, the saving system returns the limited save resource in addition to the save points. Oh and sometimes you just need to go into a room for something scripted to happen, so if you don’t, you’ll just have to blindly run around thinking that you’re missing something. Some puzzles are also rather poorly thought out, like one that will frustrate both people with good music hearing and those without. I don’t usually have a problem with this approach, but I fear that many people will get turned off by this approach. Not helped by the fact, that the map is nowhere near as helpful as in the classics of the genre, being more of a reference point, rather than a practical navigation tool. The game often opens up a lot, too much, I’d argue, as it gets overwhelming. It’s mostly really well-balanced between the puzzly bits and the shooty bits, though you do control this somewhat depending on the routes you take.
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Running around in the darkness with a lighter as your only light source might also remind you of RE: Code Veronica. Gameplay-wise, it most reminded me of Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, with elements from Silent Hill: Origins. Music can be quite nice too, whenever it’s playing eerie ambience, calming tunes or tries its hardest to sound like Silent Hill 1. It’s sometimes nonsensical in its design, but it looks cool and is fun to run around. The game world you explore is pretty good, though. But hey, a lot of great survival horror titles had silly stories, if not most of them, so that’s not as important. Same goes for uninspired enemy designs and rather predictable spooks.
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The story is pretty silly and its subtlety is best showcased with the fact that the opening cutscene features the main heroine with pointless full frontal nudity. All of the key ingredients are here and all of them are solid. Progression is rather open-ended with several sections of non-linear puzzle solving and multiple endings. Combat is often avoidable and uses precious ammo and healing resources. You get lots of puzzles, some with item manipulation, some independent. You get creepy locations to explore, finding safer and more convenient shortcuts.
Either way, Tormented Souls aims to fit the actual genre and thus be a horror themed action adventure game with focus on exploration and careful item management, puzzle solving and slower paced methodical combat.Īnd it fits the genre pillars perfectly well. The second use is far more common, not helped by the rise of the “survival” genre that has its own set of rules that are almost completely disconnected from what “survival horror” is. And the other to define basically any horror themed game of any genre. One to talk about a specific genre (or subgenre of action adventure, I suppose) that was given name and a set of key pillars by Capcom, when they used the term in their marketing material for Resident Evil. To get it out of the way, there are two ways people use “survival horror”. Tormented Souls didn’t look great, but I was willing to give it a chance.
And as often because they weren’t actually “survival horror”, as in a genre and not a meaningless moniker given to any horror game. Mostly because vast majority of these titles, even back from the time the genre was still relevant, were crap. Over the years I’ve seen so many attempts to make a survival horror game I stopped counting or caring.
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