Black Rose

Очень страшный хоррор, много скримеров и звуков, при этом очень хорошо продуман сюжет. Ночью играть не рекомендую!

I don't understand all the praise this game gets. It's quite mediocre at best. The horror aspect mostly comes from the chases. You can't hide as the monsters always know your location. Essentially you just have to run around them in circles until they just give up and despawn...uuh ok. Took me a while until I understood that and by that time the "oooo spooky" feeling already left. The first monster actually just despawns if you look at her for too long lol, and appears somewhere else where you're not looking. The problem comes from the final sequence: the quick time event with the ladder. This has got to be one of the most ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ QTEs I have ever seen. No matter how fast you press you still lose, I had to resort to an autoclicker script to do this garbage (credit goes to astro). I have no idea what the dev was thinking with this - excluding the fact that this kind of QTEs are a lazy way to add tension and have no business being in a horror game whatsoever. And the jumpscares are pretty lame. The puzzles also make absolutely no sense. "Read the lines between the lines" ??? Seriously, what is that even supposed to mean ? There are also moments where you have no idea what you're supposed to do, like the key hidden underneath a random chair in the chapel room. How was I supposed to know I can even search underneath them ? The story is interesting but it's told primarily through long ass pieces of paper that you get one after the other - it's a boring and lazy way to do storytelling, and slows down the pacing a lot. The atmosphere, looks, soundtrack and voice acting are all quite good - although I have to say that Sullivan looks pretty ugly, and not in the good way. He looks like a boiled potato lmao. But all these pros are, in my eyes, ruined by the problems mentioned above. I can't recommend this game, even for free. There's games that do horror much better than this one, and at the same price - I recommend itch.io for that. But ultimately it's your choice if this is worth your time or not.