Pesadelo - Regressão

Too dark, too unforgiving, too typical, too boring... Monsters are spawning right in front of you. No possibility to remap keys, so i spent half of a day to remap keys using .ini file by hands. Devs are not answering to players questions and issues in message topics. I see no reason to play it more. Delete...

"Pesadelo - Regressão" ist ein First-Person Horror-Spiel. Nachdem wir aus unserem Apartment getreten sind, finden wir uns auf einem Friedhof wieder. Der Totengräber gibt uns den Auftrag, Zutaten für einen Heiltrank zu finden. Danach kommen wir auf einen größeren Bereich des Friedhofs und später noch in eine Kirche. Meist müssen wir irgendwelche Zettel oder Schlüssel finden und werden dabei von zombieartigen Gegnern angegriffen, sobald sie uns bemerken. Natürlich ist es finstere Nacht und natürlich haben wir nur einen begrenzten Batterievorrat für unsere Taschenlampe. Speicherpunkte gibt es nur wenige und so kann es durchaus passieren, daß wir, wenn wir sterben, zwanzig Minuten Spielzeit verlieren. Und wir sterben schnell. Die Gegner lassen sich kaum abschütteln und sind für Zombies erstaunlich flink. Und genau das ist auch das größte Problem des Spiels. Es kann frustrieren. Zum Einen, weil man den Gegnern kaum ausweichen kann, zum Anderen aber auch, weil die Aufgaben gerne mal unklar formuliert und strukturiert sind. Zudem finden sich in der Welt zahlreiche Dinge - wie ein Beil oder eine Schaufel, die eigentlich äußerst hilfreich wären, die wir aber aus irgendeinem unerfindlichen Grund nicht mitnehmen können. Und so irrt man dann gerne mal planlos über den nächtlichen Friedhof. Und dabei ist das Spiel atmosphärisch durchaus gelungen. Die nächtliche Grusel-Stimmung ist passend und auch die Sounds sind treffend. Ein Teil der Stimmung entsteht allerdings auch dadurch, daß die dunklen Bereiche wirklich zappenduster schwarz sind. Technisch ist das Game auf einem gute Indie-Stand. Man merkt, das nicht alles ganz rund läuft und nicht alles völlig optimiert ist, aber es funktioniert. Ein durchaus interessantes Spiel, das allerdings auch seine Schwächen hat. [h1]Wertung:[/h1] 7/10 Atmosphäre 6/10 Story 6/10 Grafik 6/10 Sound 5/10 Spielmechanik 4/10 Balancing 6/10 Spielspass [h1]Fazit:[/h1] Friedhofs-Gesuche. [h1][b]6/10 Gesamtwertung

The review for the game is from what i've played and seen so far and might change once i finish off the game. Pesadelo is really a bit of a mixed bag of goods, but taken it's from an indie developer and a very small team, they have created a a nice litle title. Game uses UT4-engine and the graphics are really great, i'm not too deep into the game yet, but i do hope there are more elements to be found though. Gameplay on it's own was pretty simple to pick up, go from place a to place b to pick up quests, complete the objective and return. On this personally i would've hoped some more sidequests and so on, since the areas are quite huge and i hope developer will put those into good use later on to provide more excitement. Only two things which i've had some problems with. Firstly, it's kind of weird to start up the game and completing tasks when i have absolutely no idea on the backstory of this character (I hope it'll come up eventually) And secondly voiceacting. It might be that i'm not just customed to hear portuguese, but i can't feel charisma or any emotions on the voiceacting so it brings down the atmosphere a bit. All in all, what i've seen so far, it's quite alright. Just have to get time to actually finish the game

It's a decent game, but there are some things that put me off. [list] [*]Enemy Spawns / Detection You'll be sprinting through an open point of the map with nothing in sight, when suddenly, *PLOP* an enemy spawns right in front of you. The only way to avoid these is to quickly crouch before they can detect you. The detection is frustrating. I could be crouching around an enemy and you're about 15-20 feet behind him. However, if I stood up (didn't move, just let go of ctrl.) he would turn around and head in my direction. [*]Sounds The game is usually somewhat quiet, but when the radio plays or during some speech, the volume shoots up and is insanely loud, especially with the TV in the beginning. [*]Instructions There are some parts when I could sort of guess what I was supposed to do, but certain parts I had no idea what I was doing and eventually just game up. If there was a control to pop the mission(goal) back up every once in a while just to remember what you're doing, that would be great. [*]Achievements A few of the achievements seem broken or something. I had definitely died more than 5 times in my gameplay and after exiting the main gate it game me three at once. (That Smell, Nothing Behind, and Walkman) Not sure if the achievements are bugged, but just notifying anyone interested. [*]Closing Sometimes after I exit the game, the task doesn't end for a minute or more, so I have to go into task manager to end it manually. Not a big deal, but it's just odd. [/list] I didn't really enjoy the experience so I don't think I could recommend it, but it's not too bad of a game and would maybe be worth $5 if you don't have a problem with any of the above,

A história de Pesadelo: Regressão gira em torno do jovem Alex, que após perder as memorias do seu passado é submetido a um projeto tecnológico que pretende re-construí-las, no entanto memórias ruins irão vir a tona... Pesadelo é o segundo jogo da série, e foi feito por brasileiros. Recomendo.

This is a tough one to review. On the one hand I am a massive horror fan and so I am a little biased to always review horror games like this positively. On the other hand however I have spent quite a bit of time playing this game now and at times I have found the game infuriating. Whilst I am no stranger to horror games where avoidance/escape are your only means of defence, if a monster spots you in this game it is very difficult to get away from it... In fact you're probably more likely to run into another and before you know it you have 3 monsters chasing you. This in itself isn't a massive issue, but the save system of this game sometimes means that you can find yourself being unavoidably killed and having to replay 10-20 mins of the game. In all fairness this is very much the way games used to be and in old school horror the threat of dying before reaching a save point added to the thrill and horror... In this game however, it's just been frustrating. The gameplay is a little clunky in places but on the whole, not too bad. Graphics are decent but by no means great. Voice acting is all in portuguese (unless I've missed an option to change this to English somewhere) so I can't really comment on how good or bad this is but it sounds okay. The ambience of the game is pretty good. Enemy design is one of the biggest weakpoints of the game. The enemies are pretty much all the same and don't look that intimidating to be honest... just typical human style monsters. Storyline from what I've played so far is fairly generic and nothing to write home about. All in all this isn't a BAD game... But it's not GOOD game either. As a horror fan I may have been inclined to give this game a positive review, but certain factors have left a bad taste in my mouth and I just can't bring myself to do it. I got this game on sale and for me, it was worth it for the price I paid. But at full price, even for a massive horror fan like myself, I think this game is overpriced by quite a bit. If you see it on sale at under £1 and you're a fan of horror then I would recommend getting it just to fill a couple of hours but otherwise I can't recommend this title.

[h3]4/10[/h3] [b][EN][/b] [h2]It Had Potential...[/h2] Ok, soooooo I had mixed feelings about this game at first, I didn't know if I was going to recommend it or not, because... I liked the inventory mechanics, you can see that they are heavily inspired by Resident Evil, even the way we save the game. It had some puzzles here and there. You have to look for items, and the fight with the priest is easy once you find out what you exactly need to do. They talk a bit about Brazilian folklore, and I really liked that idea. The voice acting and animations are meh, but I understand because this is from a small company (that sadly closed not too long ago), so these are not a big issue. The main issue is how the game was poorly executed, and this is what made me NOT recommend it. It got boring sometimes, and the AI of the creatures was hella stupid, but sometimes they would spawn right on our asses, making it hard to escape. We cannot remap the keys, not in-game. The bugs - some of them were too stupid, like when I would get attacked on the loading screen and die, or when the rendering of some objects would take a while sometimes. But even so, I played it just fine in the first three levels until I got to the school level. It's not just creatures in hallways: it's a woman who spawns randomly and summons one of them to go after me; it's the killer who randomly spawns behind me, although he was slow, it forced me have to run way back because I was cornered by the other two creatures; and there is also a mysterious guy who draws traps that kill us. So, I got bored, I found some of these mechanics annoying, and I kept trying to progress, but these entities would randomly spawn at the most inconvenient moments. I just got tired of it. All of this was what made me give up, and it's sad because this game had potential. [b][PT][/b] [h2]Tinha Potencial...[/h2] Ok, entãooooo, tive sentimentos contraditórios em relação a este jogo no início. Não sabia se o ia recomendar ou não, porque... Gostei da mecânica de inventário, dá para perceber que é fortemente inspirada em Resident Evil, até na forma como salvámos o jogo. Havia alguns puzzles aqui e ali. Precisam de procurar itens, e a luta com o padre é fácil depois de descobrirem exactamente o que precisam de fazer. Eles falam um pouco sobre o folclore Brasileiro, e eu gostei bastante dessa ideia. A dobragem e as animações são meh, mas eu compreendo, uma vez que é de uma empresa pequena (que infelizmente fechou não há muito tempo), por isso estas não são um grande problema. O principal problema é a má execução do jogo, e foi isso que me fez NÃO o recomendar. Por vezes tornava-se aborrecido, e a IA das criaturas era extremamente estúpida, mas por vezes apareciam mesmo atrás de nós, dificultando a fuga. Não podemos remapear as teclas, não dentro do jogo. Os bugs — alguns eram demasiado estúpidos, como quando eu era atacada na tela de carregamento e morria, ou quando a renderização de alguns objectos demorava um pouco. Ainda assim, joguei bem os três primeiros níveis até chegar à fase da escola. Não são só criaturas nos corredores: há uma mulher que aparece do nada e invoca uma delas para ir atrás de mim; há o assassino que surge do nada atrás de mim, e embora seja lento, obriga-me a correr muito para trás porque fico encurralada pelas outras duas criaturas; e há também um tipo misterioso que desenha armadilhas que nos matam. Assim, aborreci-me, achei algumas destas mecânicas irritantes e continuei a tentar progredir, mas estas entidades surgiam aleatoriamente nos momentos mais inconvenientes. Simplesmente cansei-me. Tudo isto me fez desistir, e é uma pena porque este jogo tinha potencial.