IRENE.HOUSE

[h1]Before I played irenehouse, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]

What a mess. Nothing but slowly exploring boring repetitive environments with nonsensical audio and videos. The game manual recounts how the game was developed and at one point states "the project eventually outgrew the need for a narrative". Dude, what? Originally, there was a narrative that was given as a screenplay that you would have had to read while playing the game which was given via PDF file. So the game is paced and structured for the screenplay (which doesn't exist), and is both painfully slow and feels meaningless. Also it bugged several times. I got soft locked in the first 30 seconds. Another time it crashed so hard I had to restart my computer. You can look through walls by walking through them. A lake didn't spawn in for like 20 seconds after I got to a new level. The game's just sloppy. I enjoyed some of the visuals and ambiance, but considering you have to read the PDF manual to get a vague idea of what's going on, it's just not worth playing in my opinion. I know this "game" isn't a game per se, but when you're making an virtual exhibition, it would make sense to put the point of the experience within the experience, and not in a PDF that basically no one is going read

IRENE.HOUSE, heykeltıraş Irene June'un yer aldığı yaratıcı bir sergidir. June ile yapılan bir dizi konuşmaya dayanan bu proje, onların ev, soy ve hayallerle olan ilişkilerini araştırıyor. Oyun sürükleyici, mekansal bir deneyim için HUD'sız bir tasarıma sahiptir ve oynanabilir veya NPC karakterleri içermez. Bu proje aynı zamanda Irene ile işbirliği içinde yapılan performansları, konuşma parçalarını ve kamera kayıtlarını da içeriyor.

This feels like an alien came to our planet and was told to make a video game without ever being told what a video game is. It is empty, confusing, incredibly dark, and has no ending nor purpose. It tries to be artsy, but all of the textures look like they were made in the early 2000s with banana pudding as a reference. There is no rhyme or reason to go anywhere or do anything, there is zero interactivity, the imagery you look at is boring, literally dark, and repetative, there is little to no sound whatsoever, the only movement is WASD, mouse, and crouch, to progress through "levels" you need to walk around randomly until something triggers, sometimes nothing will trigger the first time so you need to keep going in circles until the game lets you go, etc. etc. etc., you could go on for hours on why this is a waste of time. Irene House attempts to be an art simulation without the art or the simulation. You just kind of walk around in nothingness and try to find out how to get to the next stint of nothingness. It really feels like a test demo for a game engine than anything else. Imagine teaching someone from 1910 how to program, never showing them what a video game is, and then telling them to make a game. You would probably get something like this, an aimless walking simulator with absolutely no substance, no artistic merit, no interactivity, nothing really at all. I'm not really sure why this was posted to Steam in the first place, to be honest. It isn't really anything at all, and even if I played this several decades ago, before the age of the internet, I would probably say, "Huh, neat." and that's about it. Plus for some reason this program opens SteamVR even if you're not using a headset. And don't bother trying to pause, it will just close the entire program and you will have to start over. Actually just don't even bother downloading this. My review is making it sound much more interesting than it actually is. At least a bad game is memorable, this is nothing really at all.

Игра "IRENE.HOUSE" оставила смешанные чувства. Визуально игра выполнена в приятном, минималистичном стиле, который создает атмосферу таинственности и неопределенности. Звуковое сопровождение также хорошо работает на атмосферу, добавляя напряжения моментам исследования. Однако, геймплей кажется несколько однообразным. Головоломки, хоть и несложные, повторяются и не предлагают достаточного разнообразия. Сюжет, хотя и интригует вначале, к концу становится немного скомканным и оставляет больше вопросов, чем ответов. В целом, "IRENE.HOUSE" можно рекомендовать любителям коротких, атмосферных хоррор-игр с упором на исследование. Но не стоит ожидать глубокого сюжета или сложных головоломок. Это скорее интерактивная новелла с легким налетом хоррора.

Das Problem bei diesem Walking Simulator ist, dass alles willkürlich ist und keine Story hat, der man folgen möchte oder überhaupt kann, was den einzigen Nutzen, die dieses Spiel hätte nichtig macht. Man könnte die Passagen auf TikTok werfen und dann als Kunstkanal durchkommen, das wars aber auch.

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