INFERNIUM

追いかけてくる敵から逃げながらパズルもどきを解いて進んでいくゲームです。 嫌いではないのですが、移動が遅くてインタラクトもめちゃくちゃ遅くて何をするにもストレスが溜まるので(そういうゲームなのは分かっていますが)あんまり好きになれません。風景は好きなんですけどね。スクリーンショットが撮りたくてわざわざ数年ぶりに2周目をクリアしたくらいです。一通り撮りながらクリアした後にフォトモードの存在に気が付いてかなり悲しくなりました。

I don't write a lot of reviews, so this really means something for me. You can also ignore my game time, as this is a game I bought on the Nintendo Switch back when it first came out, beat it, and liked it so much that I just recently bought it here. This is a fantastic game with a great atmosphere. Very little is explained and I think that's a core strength of the game. It gives you enough room to explore and figure out how it works. I don't think there are a lot of games nowadays where I've had the freedom to discover their world naturally, and I think this game does a great job of doing that.

Why does the game keep crashing within 1 minute of opening it ? I want to play it but it keeps crashing even in it's lowest settings .

I wanted to like this game, but I cannot recommend Infernium. The interconnected metroidvania level design is exceptional, several clever shortcuts throughout each section, it begs to be explored and even revisited to open every locked door, gated area, etc. even if the reward is minimal or non existent. Honestly it's amongst the best of it's style in a first person setting that I've played. Other positives are the atmosphere and occasional drone audio tracks which gives a good mood of somber isolation. But... Everything about your character is slow and clunky, you move slow, you interact with every object slow and worst of all the teleport ability takes too long to charge meaning using it is slow, you move at a snails pace as it charges, it has limited reach must be pointed at the ground or angled geometry facing you, lots of times it feels like your aiming at a group of three pixels that will let it work as it randomly spazzes between red and yellow especially noticeable in crimson river level, it is unreliable, broken and awful to use when under pressure. There are too many gotcha moments and unavoidable death's some wrong turns are just death with no chance of recovery, that's not hard gameplay just unfair. It uses a bonfire system like dark souls that are placed far apart but dark souls is an action game meaning you can go through failures with different styles and get better more skilled regardless of the mobs, here you just have to do the exact same thing over and over again most times there's one way of progressing and one way only, one solution to a chase puzzle and one solution only, get used to boring needless repetition. The timed puzzles/sections later in the game are just terrible, holding a switch for 5-10 seconds to loop around and miss an opening by a pixel again with the stupid teleport whilst being chased by multiple enemies is pure tedium, the timings in this game are at times mean and stingy considering how clunky the mechanics are. Finally the end sequence is beyond awful, all of the glaring problems of this game are multiplied ten fold in a sequence so badly designed it genuinely baffles me. It is a shame because in the right hands this could have been a great game with the same level design and quicker fluid gameplay / reliable faster charge teleport, a limited sprint system, anything to make it feel less slow/clunky and tedious.

Slow, dark, boring, annoying and just all round terrible. Don't waste your money!

Interesting concept, but very rough around the edges. Sound design needs polish, movement needs polish, gameplay needs polish, story needs polish. Sound mixing is all over the place, some sounds play very oddly (ie wooden footsteps on stone floor, ambient sound and gameplay sound is jarringly contrasted). Plays very clunky. Intro is supposed to convey some sort of story but just a black screen with the sound of a car crash, then instantly into the game world. Price drops drastically on a sale. Otherwise it is definitely not worth the full price.

Garbage. Crashes after 2-3 minutes, no matter if I'm in game or in the main menu. The issue is not my system, because I have tried it on THREE different PCs, including the brand new gaming system I built just a few months ago.

Although the graphics look great as well as the performance while moving around in the evironments is perfect, also the sounds are suitable too (chase scene music sounds very familiar to me;-) the gameplay is too hard for me, because of these stupid "checkpoints". After you got caught (in the act) you will always wake up in the same empty area in order to change to the place you just were beginning the section, so you'll have to repeat the last minutes. That's not relaxing for me. Sorry. You cant't do even some changes in the menu without leaving the running gameplay. The steam sale price is a gift by the way.

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7/10