I Hate This Place

Прошёл до конца, игра понравилась. В первую очередь хочу похвалить визуальный стиль. Приятно находится в таком красочном мире даже ночью, не говоря уже и про день. Сюжет ненапряжный и доступный, достаточный, чтобы дополнять игровой процесс и мотивировать идти дальше. Классная идея со звуками и визуализацией шума через всплывашющие надписи. Однако, во второй половине игры это становится уже не так важно, потому что я стал уже как терминатор и легко уничтожал любых противников. Также, я не оч понял необходимость постройки базы. И без неё хватает ресурсов на все нужды. Ну просто повозиться на базе немного прикольно. В общем, игра довольно хорошая и лёгкая. Я не очень понимаю, почему у неё столько негативных отзывов. Но может цена высоковата.

I Hate This Place: 6/10 Platform: Steam Completion Time: 9 Hours Price Tag: $29.99 Elena has returned to her childhood home. With her friend, Lou, they perform a ritual to summon The Horned Man in hopes of getting answers to what happened to her mother. Instead, Lou ends up missing, and the ritual has led to more questions than answers. Elena will have to travel through abandoned bunkers and uncover the secrets of the local cult if she hopes to find her friend and gain answers about her mother’s disappearance. I Hate This Place is an open-world survival craft game stylized like a comic book. You’ll set-up camp at your Aunt & Uncle’s farm where you’ll be able to craft useful items to use in the battles to come. There are two main objectives: finding Lou and uncovering what happened to your mother. Along the way, you’ll meet a handful of additional characters that add to the quest lines. You’ll also need to explore the various bunkers around the forest. Within them are, essentially, three different enemy types. You can either choose to engage in combat (advise against) or you can use your stealth and sneak around them in strategic ways. Each bunker will uncover a secret about the town. You will also experience ghost stories, where you will enter a different realm and uncover what really happened to the victim. This game feels like it offers a lot, but with a 9 hour runtime, I Hate This Place overstays its welcome. Given that this was a resource management game, and they offered you an entire farm to craft, I thought this was going to be a critical part of the game. I ended up encumbered for the majority of the game because it essentially gives you everything you need at each location. The only thing I struggled with from time to time was having enough food. By the end of the game, I questioned why the farm was even a necessary addition since they also offer small crafting stations in every location. The gameplay was enjoyable at first, but by the 5 hour mark, I was ready to be done. It became tedious - enter a bunker, crouch, solve the mystery, find the exit. It seemed pointless to engage in combat with the larger creatures because it took SO MUCH to down them. I believe it took 6 shotgun shells, 12 pistol shots, 3 flares, etc. I just found it more worth my time to sneak past them, which felt like that was more of the game’s intention. However, if you were to throw a grenade they targeted your direct location, which should not have happened. It also took a lot for them to disengage if you had been caught. I appreciated the addition of the voice acting, but a lot of times it felt stiff and didn’t contain the correct emotions. The animation during these dialogues were also incredibly stiff. The overall narrative of the game just fell flat. I also became frustrated with the last hour and a half of the game because it just wasn’t necessary to make the character go through another tedious bunker and puzzle and boss just to meet a character “beyond the forest gates”. I was checked out at this point and didn’t really care about the ending. I enjoyed the first few hours of the game, which is partly why the score is a bit higher, despite all of the negatives I point out above. I also thought that the elements they offered were interesting, even if they didn’t all fit together. This is also why I would still recommend the game because I can see that the developers really tried, and poured a lot of heart into it. Although I wouldn't recommend this game at full price, I would still recommend picking it up on sale.