This horror game is difficult to pin down.
There's equally much good and bad ideas cramped into one game. Song of horror also outstays it's welcome and is far to much of a slog that it looses my attention span.
I will keep this review short of what worked and what didn't work.
Cons: 1. I will never understand why so many horror games are so focused on puzzle solving? I don't play horror to be reminded of school. Puzzles are the most boring part in any games, in any genres. It works in RE,SH, DS because they contribute to the overall mood piece. Not overly obtuse puzzles that slows the whole gameplay to a crawl.
In this game they are an absolute confucing mess! I had to rely on wiki and gave up solving them completely just to get through the game.
2. There should only be one character to play.
It makes no sense at all to send his best friends to an early grave, I was laughing at this. I send "my soon to be" girlfriend to a haunted mental asylum. Haha 3. The many silent hill references gets in the way of the atmosphere 4. The hauntings should have been realtime and with means of defending yourself. Not annoying puzzles.
5. The game is simply to long.
Pros: 1. Beautiful backgrounds and house design. The first two chapters are the best.
The haunted house, the dingy apartment blocks are fun to traverse in a silent hill 3 kinda way. Sure, there are some setpieces within the levels that gets overrused. But the first two levels i was on the edge of my seat. The rest of the later labyrinthic levels are simply to long.
2. The music and effects are actually great in places, and the haunting activity can be rather creepy and fun. I also died deveral times and the hauntings happened in different places.
I don't know if those where random bugs but there where almost never the same scares wich was a great idea to keep players on edge.
Conclusion: song of horror can feel nostalgic in places and the first two chapters are the most focused ones. But they could have cut out many of the annoying beyond belief puzzles they wouldn't be missed. The terrible, voiceacting, permadeath, ghost puzzles and switching characters all contribute to making the game alot more confucing that it ever had to be. I would still recommend playing through this game, cause the graphics are fine and the rooms and hauntings are creepy if the correct ones are triggered. There's a really good horror game under the hood. But it couldn't reach it's potential.
There's equally much good and bad ideas cramped into one game. Song of horror also outstays it's welcome and is far to much of a slog that it looses my attention span.
I will keep this review short of what worked and what didn't work.
Cons: 1. I will never understand why so many horror games are so focused on puzzle solving? I don't play horror to be reminded of school. Puzzles are the most boring part in any games, in any genres. It works in RE,SH, DS because they contribute to the overall mood piece. Not overly obtuse puzzles that slows the whole gameplay to a crawl.
In this game they are an absolute confucing mess! I had to rely on wiki and gave up solving them completely just to get through the game.
2. There should only be one character to play.
It makes no sense at all to send his best friends to an early grave, I was laughing at this. I send "my soon to be" girlfriend to a haunted mental asylum. Haha 3. The many silent hill references gets in the way of the atmosphere 4. The hauntings should have been realtime and with means of defending yourself. Not annoying puzzles.
5. The game is simply to long.
Pros: 1. Beautiful backgrounds and house design. The first two chapters are the best.
The haunted house, the dingy apartment blocks are fun to traverse in a silent hill 3 kinda way. Sure, there are some setpieces within the levels that gets overrused. But the first two levels i was on the edge of my seat. The rest of the later labyrinthic levels are simply to long.
2. The music and effects are actually great in places, and the haunting activity can be rather creepy and fun. I also died deveral times and the hauntings happened in different places.
I don't know if those where random bugs but there where almost never the same scares wich was a great idea to keep players on edge.
Conclusion: song of horror can feel nostalgic in places and the first two chapters are the most focused ones. But they could have cut out many of the annoying beyond belief puzzles they wouldn't be missed. The terrible, voiceacting, permadeath, ghost puzzles and switching characters all contribute to making the game alot more confucing that it ever had to be. I would still recommend playing through this game, cause the graphics are fine and the rooms and hauntings are creepy if the correct ones are triggered. There's a really good horror game under the hood. But it couldn't reach it's potential.