[b] P. S. If you have difficulties in the walktrough, this guide will be very useful: [/b]
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3561496240
[h1] DARK ssa [/h1]
This game feels more like a failed parody than a true survival horror. There are five levels from the perspective of a girl named Catherine, and four of them take place in the same location. The objectives basically involve running from point to point, collecting documents, or pressing buttons. All this is wrapped up with attempts to make sense of the local, honestly ridiculous 'story.' As for the main story or the Russian voice acting, it’s barely worth mentioning — everything feels thrown together without any enthusiasm.
The game doesn’t really have any good points. The downsides?
The biggest headache is the bugs. Sometimes enemy attacks hit you even after they’re dead, letting a dead enemy land a couple of hits on the heroine, which is a big deal even on medium difficulty. Just as annoying are the random freezes that can happen anytime, even when nothing’s happening on screen and you’re just standing still.
Switching between inventory items is ridiculously inconvenient. In most games, weapons and flashlights switch logically, using numbers or the mouse wheel. But here, the developers went even further: to just use an adrenaline syringe, for example, you have to hit Escape to open the menu, go to the inventory section, click "use," sit through a short animation, and only then keep moving. It's infuriating.
The main character's movement is clunky and awkward. Yeah, the game is 3D and third-person, but the fact that the locations aren't properly rendered and there's black void behind the walls is just the tip of the iceberg. The in-game camera sometimes does its own thing and won't listen, and when the protagonist gets stuck in doors with an enemy, you know things are bad. On top of that, she moves in a ridiculous way, like she's running in heels.
Nothing here, which is logical, really has decent graphics or any kind of atmosphere. The enemies, whether humans or local test subjects, have no tactics or decent AI — they just charge at you like tanks (and it’s kind of funny that you can spot them coming thanks to the sharp action beats, which here are called "music"). As for the unbalanced difficulty and the total lack of even a hint of fear, I don’t think it needs any comments.
A special “thanks” goes to the trickery and the attempt to bait players into buying the “Gold Edition.” This version, which costs twice as much on Steam, offers at most three alternative costumes for Catherine, a couple of new guns (which spawn randomly, by the way), and basically a soundtrack that barely exists in the game. Even if I were a developer, I’d be ashamed to even think about such a shameless money grab.
The bottom line? Honestly: garbage from domestic indie development.
[h3] P. S. 2x. Did you like the review or my profile? Drop a Steam reward for the review. Thanks to your support, I don't lose the point of playing and writing reviews! [/h3]
