Kwaidan ～Azuma manor story～

Extremely charming homage to PS1 and PS2 survival horror, tank control games crossed over with a point and click adventure. You have an option to play without tank controls as well, though I didn't check that out personally. The game itself is pretty short but the puzzles were enjoyable without stumping too hard, and I did see a guide was posted if you need more help. I saw some negativity around the point and click aspect around online reviews but I didn't find it too troublesome. You can inspect a lot of the environment and I didn't run into trouble using it to get through doors or pick things up. During a fight if you think you'll need to use medicine you can simply hover your mouse on it. It seems typical for this sort of game but you do want to be careful hoarding heals, especially in the final section. I played badly so I had no healing for the last few fights and essentially had to play perfectly to beat the game, but even when I was at my worst there was a way forward to save and then heal a tiny bit more. I think this is a nice pickup for the atmosphere and unique experience, but like some said you may want to wait for a sale if $25 seems too steep for a 3-5 hour experience. There is some replay value in beating the game on the two modes and also for playing without being damaged a single time, but I don't think I'll go for those.

Amazing Game

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A fun and short, old-school survival horror game with a really neat PS1 inspired artstyle. It's a fairly easy game with monsters that have clear tactics for beating(though the bosses are a bit too easy). The atmosphere is great, the music is fine with the ending/credits song being a standout. The puzzles are fairly simple but enjoyable with my favourite being the safe combination one. I really like how that one is solveable without finding all the numbers beforehand. I wish this game was a more popular and I'm really interested to see what's next from the developer.

El juego base no está mal, pero tiene tantas mecánicas mediocres. La más obvia es la inclusión del menú tipo aventura gráfica. Es completamente inútil y molesto. Tener que cambiar de ítem para pegar al medio, arriba o abajo es otra muy mala idea. Si lo jugás te vas a encontrar con otras muchas pequeñas decisiones polémicas, pero para resumir es bastante injugable, sobretodo si lo hacés en el modo "original" que tiene los controles tipo tanque, en ese caso el juego se hace mucho más difícil y frustrante por lo mal diseñado que está para ese tipo de control. Una lástima porque si hubiera tenido mecánicas más sencillas creo que sería un gran juego.

found this game while surfing the steam store playtime if you are very well at managing your item you can finish it quickly although the puzzles will extends your playtime if you love puzzle solving the puzzle solving is not that difficult it's more time consuming imo graphics/art is a ps2 style era the camera has two types, fixed camera and third person perspective however on 3rd person you can't move your camera freely the combat is ok and polished as i said before, this game is also item management i ended up start from the beginning twice because of how i messed up throughout the game you are limited to a few slots of inventory (8 or 6 slots i think) music is nice soundtracks is nice there is one minor bug but only to be triggered by player's action so it doesn't come to you there is a boss will charge right at you and if you decide to block and gives you i-frame but due to the boss size it went through you and the character you controlled will fall into the void, but beside that everything is safe [spoiler] Developed by one person, and made a very good quality game, that's very impressive [/spoiler]

I finished the game with "Modern" controls. Beware, it is really an old-school survival game. One stick to move your character, one stick to point-and-click the screen. Just a button to reset camera's position. And of course, number of saves and healing are limited. But I liked it! Yes, it can be challenging (and sometime frustrating) but I really liked the spooky atmosphere and the story of the Azuma family. Besides, as other reviews mentioned, it is a one-man project and make it even more impressive.

I'm not very far into the game yet but I absolutely love it. It's got that Dreamcast-early-PS2 era graphics and the vibes and quirks of a game from a super small team with a strong vision. There aren't many games like this these days! I'm playing on steam deck and it works great apart from some UI/graphical glitches so far. The controls are a bit odd and clunky but I feel like it's appropriate to the game.

would it hurt to add in a couple extra healing items at the final boss? the entire final area is ridiculous with the enemy spawns. it just stops being fun. it's not "old school" design it's just obnoxious. i was enjoying it up until then but the end left too bad a taste and spoiledit

this game is very old school, the control is clunky, the puzzle is confusing and the hidden item, lol. But it's a good game if you like games like og RE, Onimusha. Oh and the developer has the balls to make his name appears multiple times for multiple roles instead of just saying a game made by him at the end lol.