Alone in the Dark

I found this to be a fun game. The gameplay is fun with it being a survival horror with solving puzzles and fighting against enemies. I found the puzzles to be challenging on how tricky they are and it is interesting on how to solve them. While the game isn't an action pack, the combat is pretty good with different weapons you can get throughout the game. But most of the enemies don't have different abilities to them. Also, while you can play as two characters, there's nothing different about them in the gameplay other than the cutscenes. Overall, it's a fun game.

This game really tries to mimic, what Capcom did to the RE remasters, but it fails to come close. The gameplay is clunky and buggy, the riddles are basically non-existant, with every solution/key right next to you. The enemy variety is lackluster. All of the enemy encounters are scripted. Some part of the map has optional weapons placed for you, which you won't use, since there won't be any enemies to come by there. (Played trough on hard difficulty.) There is a stealth system, which you have absolutely no reason to use, since even on hard difficulty you have plenty of ammo and melee weapons to knock every monster out. (Stealth mode looks funny however. Like the protagonist sh*t in their pants, and regarding the circumstances, it is totally understandable from their perspective). The story has it ups and downs, but all in all, it is quite a mess (I'm going to give a chance to play trough with Emily anyway, since I heared the story becomes a bit better that way...). The first 2 hours or so is quite engaging, (and it has some good parts toward the end) but it is downhill from there. The mansion does not really open up, despite the map layout having the potential. The game constantly blocks already opened paths, creating artifical corridors and alternate dimension pathways in which you are forced through. Because of this, the game is pretty linear. I liked the main protagonists, however all the side characters are boring and the voice acting is terrible. They are whining in every line they have. (Don't get me started on the narrated logs... Thank god there is an option to mute them). The music and the audio design however (sound of weapons) are awsome! The OST has some pretty nice Twin Peaks-like themes. Maybe get it on a deep deep sale, otherwise buy/replay RE2/RE4 remasters (or even the originals) OR there are several better (indie) survival horror games out there as well. This game had potential and good ideas, and you can see that, but it is really unplosihed (maybe the studio rushed to finish it). At this state I would give it somewhere between 2 and 3 out of 5. (Would refund if I could, event though I got it on a -60% sale, but when the problems started showing up, it was way past the 2 hour mark...)