I had a lot of expectations when launching this game as the store page led me to believe this would be some sort of an anthology horror series. The translation is one of the weirdest I have seen in a video game. The other language available is Japanese so Alaska is probably a foreigner and not a native English speaker. The selection text for graphics is way too strange. Wonder if Google Translate was used for this - I assume it can translate sentences wrongly if there is no context, at all, even in English.
In any case following the weird translation you have two levels available. One is a sort of tutorial with room after room teaching you of the controls. That are... weird, to say the least. Objects can go into our right and left hand, separately, and a separate key allows them to change hands. When launching the second stage (taking place in a hotel) I saw no use of this mechanic since I mostly picked up keys to open doors. But to open said doors I needed to open the inventory and select the key. 3 options to choose from: putting them into your left and right hand or using them. What's with this weird hand mechanic?!
In the hotel we pick up the phone at the reception. You can immediately understand the voice acting is an AI-generated speech where the audio and the subtitles do not always match. Then you go from one room to the next only to get more keys and pick up pieces of paper reading some weird text. Again, bad translation but not with lots of typos just strange expressions.
The store page focuses too much on the technical aspects of [i]The Collector[/i]. Utilising UE5 is commendable but the whole game looks like a tech demo and it appears to be unfinished. It is nice that it is free but I came for the story and didn't find any coherent one. The developer has another game released last year but only in Early Access that hasn't since a single update since last December. I'd rather play a bad walking sim than an unfinished one.
