[h1] [u]A good Idea but poorly executed[/u] [/h1]
[h2] The Ideas [/h2]
The idea of the game is one I find interesting, animal mixed with human body horror, the themes of people being kidnapped and spliced making monstrosities, I love things like this, specially ones that aren't afraid to go all out with their vision, nudity, gore, heavy themes of rape, murder, abuse and other heavy topics.
The game goes for this disturbing almost Saw like game where you wake up in which I think is a mix of an Asylum, Hospital, Church, home and so on?, there are lots of weird experiments of men and women being spliced with and also having awful stuff done to them sexually, gory and out right ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up, by the mutated people and the mad Doctor himself.
Overall in idea I like it and it's something I would like to see more of and different takes and spins, I do think some areas are a bit of a miss and or left kind of vague or just placed there with not much to it.
[h2] The poor execution [/h2]
The problem with the game that massively ♥♥♥♥♥ it over is the game it's self and some of the poor anatomy or art.
[h3] The game it's self [/h3]
The game is a 3D sprite base game, so like Doom, this is because it's a mod of Doom running on the modified Quake Engine, this shouldn't be bad but the problem is it's to much like doom, and the systems it still uses from Doom heavily pull it down, for example the enemies and the player, the game looks and feels like it want's to go for this slow unsettling horror type game play, that akin to Resident Evil OG and Silent Hill OG, but it uses Dooms movement speed and the enemies feel like re-skin of Doom enemies, so this game trying to go for this unsettling horror theme gets massively pulled down due to the fact it's playing to much like Doom, enemies will jankily zig zag as their navigation AI ♥♥♥♥♥ it's self, your shots are hard to tell if they hit because your shooting at a 2D image in a game designed to run and gun in large areas.
[h3] The Art [/h3]
The art isn't the worst, but it is quite off with some of it, there are some anatomy problems that someone who does art and knows anatomy will point out, but then some are so bad you will notice it no matter what, some of the male sprites look off specially the main enemy, their sprites look dis proportionate and as if the human they once was, was already a freak or some mutated human, it can be off putting at times specially when the enemy is so common and you see it a lot, there is also a lot of other things that I feel because it's done in this bit crushed sprite style, a lot of the details needed to convey what it is or what your looking at is lost, this leads to the design failing and not reading to the player like it should, you also have the view model for things like the pistol and the shotgun which look odd, the shotgun looks the worst as the weapon looks so jank in it's perspective and the guy holds the pump weird tucking his thumb under it instead of gripping it so he can ♥♥♥♥ it. It's small things but fixing them up can go a long way and it's a shame the directors cut didn't, also a lot of things in the game feel like they should of just been 3D assets and not 2D sprites, as well as this game being a 2D sprite game makes a lot of things follow your view making it look like the corpses and all that are still alive and just look's goody, specially when chairs and non organic objects have multiple sprites that it flicks to to make it look 3D.
[h1] [u]Bad game play[/u][/h1]
[h2] What doesn't work in the game play [/h2]
[h3] The game play mechanic [/h3]
Sadly the game play is awful, it's a Doom boomer shooter using the modified Quake engine, the game plays exactly like Doom with the fast moment, strafing and enemies that just out right B-line for you mostly, the game tries to have features and a play style of horror games like OG Resident Evil but doing this with Dooms fast movement and bullet hell ends up making this monstrosity of a game that is fighting it's self to be a slow pace horror but also a fast pace run and gun.
Countless times does the game struggle with you fighting a lot of enemies that you will need to shoot, well keeping a fast moments, in a map designed to be slow and careful with how cramped and small it is, well also giving you little Ammo because it wasn't to be a game where you preserve your bullets, I preserved my bullets so much I couldn't carry anymore and I'm already at a point where I got ♥♥♥♥ all and having to fight off insane amount of enemies, keep in mind this is also a Doom like game so the enemies are 2D sprites that don't work well for accuracy, their moment is blocky so they zig zag when walking and the fast enemies struggle to maneuver from where they spawned because they move to fast. All this leads to a stressful mess of just fighting the game as it's constantly ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ you over for no reason then it's poorly designed.
[h3] The Puzzles [/h3]
The Puzzles are awfully executed, the first one gives you a wall of flesh that tells you something, but what it tells you isn't 100% clear, specially with the topics it talks about and the room it's close to so it caused some confusion, plus I had to multiple times guess to myself if I was reading it right since it was pixilated as ♥♥♥♥,
Another Puzzle was a "Riddle" but I don't think the developer knows what a riddle is, it was not a riddle at all and instead something completely different, the puzzle's answer was [spoiler] You read the capital letters in the "Riddle and put them together and it spells out "Genetics", this isn't a riddle at all and the words mean nothing since you just need the capital letters nothing else, no actual riddle to solve [/spoiler]
The painting puzzle was nothing I just randomly clicked then and got it second try.
The door puzzle with the numbers I was done with this games ♥♥♥♥ and forced it, which was also bad as you had to click on the door handles, this includes the open doors so you need to walk up to the handle, look at it and click it, which is so stupid and I don't even know how I thought to do that.
[h3] Boss system /[spoiler] Nemisis Enemy [/spoiler] [/h3]
The bosses in this game boil down to bullet sponges that will take ages to kill or take down, there is one that I had to cheese just because it was stupid and was just me dying really quick and was straight up one of the later on Doom enemies, there is one in the game that I will put as a spoiler as he takes a prominent roll in the game, for simplicity sake I will just call him the [spoiler] Nemisis [/spoiler] this boss is just so poorly designed, the boss [spoiler] is just a fast enemy that will 2 hit you and if you manage to down him he drops a medkit, some pills and piss all ammo making him not worth the hassle, specially since he shows up over and over again in a secion where you have to back track the whole map well they spawn more pointless enemies to waste your ammo, he feels like he's trying to be like the Nemisis from Resident evil 3 but the difference is that the Nemisis in RE3 was slow at times and could be dodged, and when defeated he would drop a weapon upgrade that makes your weapons do more damage making you waste less ammo and kill things faster also making you save health supplies, but with the one in this game it drops supplys you just wasted but less so it's better to just run away instead. [/spoiler]
[b] Review to long so some of it will be in the comments [/b]
