
From the creators of the popular mystery adventure game series “Silver Creek Falls” and the film-noir detective visual novel series “The Agency” comes a new horror-mystery series that will surely keep you at the edge of your seat! Sapphire Dragon Productions proudly presents “The Ghosts of Hackney Mills”
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J'ai dû bricoler pour faire tourner cette bouse bugguée. Du RPG Maker basique qui n'offre même pas de cartes Steam. A fuir.
What should I start with? I am still grieving as the ending credits are rolling. The music accompanying it makes my grief even more punctuated. I've learned that the choices we don't pay much attention to affect the lives of other people. The game tells you that you will need pen, paper and a calculator in order to progress, because many hints are hidden inside audios that you need to listen to very carefully in order to understand the story. Sincerely, when I got to the climax scene, I have learned something terrible. The car crash was no accident... PROS: - Great RPG; - Atmospheric music; - Saving is my life!! - Character sprite cute and well-executed; - Story built up nicely; - Easy to obtain achievements; - No monster! Thank Heaven! CONS: - I had to turn the volume up to hear the spirit crystals audio; - Even if it has Steam Overlay, I couldn't take any screenshot. To conclude, I recommend it to anyone who would like a scary story. It might disappoint some children of today because it lacks corpses, monsters and the like, but in my humble opinion this is what makes a good game: the story, the atmosphere, the macabre hints, the music, the player's epiphany after the climax.
This is a game that sounded like it was going to be fun and interesting. It ended up being rather tedious and dull. The gameplay basically amounts to walking around, checking crystals to listen to fully voiced (with no subtitles or text) plot or character interactions and checking for spooky notes. The voice acting ranges from "acceptable" to "I can't stop laughing at how bad this is". The plot is overwhelmed by personal drama. There are no real spooks. There is basically only 1 real puzzle to figure out. The central mystery of the game is not answered and the game *ends* with more questions than it starts with. I appreciate that everybody involved in this game worked hard and didn't deliberately set out to make a game that was laughable when it wasn't being dull, but unfortunately that's what they ended up with here.
Dobrý příběh se zápletkou, která se točí okolo pokusů jistých profesorů a armády. Jakožto ochutnávka to určitě nebylo vůbec špatné a pokud je Vám po gustu troška klasiky, jde o dobrou a logickou záležitost, kde musíte používat hlavu k řešení dveřních kódů a poslouchat slova krystalů. +Dobrý příběh +Casual hratelnost -Velmi krátké -Nevyužitý potenciál hry
another incredible game from sapphire dragon studios
This game does not work for Mac or PC. I've tried installing it on multiple machines and it always crashes. Absolute garbage. Save your money.
Es beginnt mit einem Stromausfall, doch wo eigentlich nur der Strom fehlen sollte, ist auch von Menschen keine Spur mehr zu finden. Als Elektriker durchstreift man den Campus einer Universität und trifft dort immer wieder auf unheilvolle Details. In kleinen Schritten eröffnet sich der Ursprung der Menschenleere. Mit diesem Plot lässt sich ein gutes Spiel machen. "The Ghosts of Hackney Mills" ist auch kein vollkommen vermurkstes Spiel. Aus den meisten Aspekten hätte sich nur leider deutlich mehr herausholen lassen können. Die Musik ist vielleicht der einzige Aspekt, an dem sich keine Kritik zur Verbesserung anbringen lässt. Die ist dunkel und stimmungsvoll gehalten und hält sich so weit im Hintergrund, dass sie Teil der Gesamtatmosphäre ist und nicht prominent heraustritt. Horror in Pixelart ist kein Widerspruch. Es gibt wunderbare Beispiele für gelungene, stimmungsvolle Spiele in den bewährten Bauklötzen. Hier ist allerdings einiges nicht glücklich gemacht. Zuerst einmal ist es die Draufsicht. Horror lebt zumeist von der Angst vor dem, was kommen wird. Eine solche Beklemmung entsteht nur leider nicht, wenn die gesamte Umgebung jederzeit gut sichtbar ist. Es muss dann schließlich auch nichts passieren, nur die Furcht davor, dass es so sein könnte, muss aufrechterhalten werden. Die Gestaltung der Umgebung selbst ist auch nicht besser gelungen. Finstere Spukschlösser, riesige Schlagschatten oder verkrüppelte Bäume brauch es nicht, gerade bei der vorliegenden Thematik. Die Graphik sieht nur einfach zu niedlich aus. Wenn "niedlich" das erste Wort ist, dass einem bei der Graphikbeschreibung eines Horrorspiels einfällt ist, wird schon einmal deutlich, wo der Fehler liegt. Wenn die Graphik eines Horrorspiels "niedlich" aussieht, sollte sie wenigstens einen Zweck damit erfüllen. Das tut sie dummerweise nicht, was dann auch nicht ideal für die Stimmung ist. Es bleibt noch der Verlauf des Spiels. Immer wieder finden sich Hinweise auf das, was geschehen ist. Diese Hinweise sind überall im Gelände verstreut und ihnen wohnt eine innere Dramatik inne. Die weiten Wege, die in dem Spiel zurückzulegen sind und die mangelhafte graphische Atmosphäre lassen diese Momente allerdings verpuffen. Der Ansatz des Spiels ist gut. Nur leider greifen die einzelnen Elemente des Spiels nicht so ineinander, dass daraus ein dichtes atmosphärisches Spiel geworden ist. Es ist so wie beim Backen, wenn der erste Blick einen herrlich aufgehenden Kuchen verspricht, doch beim Rausholen nur ein zusammengefallenes Etwas vorzufinden ist.
The Ghosts of Hackney Mills is an okay horror game. Let’s get into the story. It’s a late night in Southern Ohio as Todd Collins a worker for the White Cross Electric Company has crashed his car, luckily he's okay and even better he's not far from the old abandoned University he was sent out to investigate due to the power being on, but what is going on at the that is a truth abandoned University? Todd will unfortunately discover. Now the likes. The story is pretty good if you choose to listen to the story crystals in the game. The voice acting in the game was nice, some of it was good but others you could probably tell we're putting on fake accents but it was still good. The music was good, the puzzles were okay and the RPG Maker graphics were nice. Price for the game was good. it was very fair for such a short game. Now the dislikes. The game is not really all that scary despite being a horror game, I mean it was kind of scary if you listened to the story crystals but other than that again the game really wasn't all that scary. Game’s a bit short, also the ending for the game was kind of bad. [spoiler] After escaping the facility and finding your boss's car the game just abruptly ends. I mean it should have ended with the monster showing up or Todd finding his boss’s cell phone and calling the police and the game slowly transitions to the credit. [/spoiler] Now that I have got that done The Ghosts of Hackney Mills is an okay horror game. With a pretty good story, good music and nice voice acting. So if you're looking for a short RPG Maker horror game this could be for you.
I found the story intriguing and the implementation pretty cool for this type of game. Hard to get back into if you take a break though... It could use more quality of life features that avoid relying on players memory as much - but you get a fair heads up at least.
O my gosh, first of all, the sound, the background music and the voice in this game was super. It was clear and I played it with my headphone, it was like heaven to my ears. 2nd of all.. I hope this is the first game of this series, because I really wanna know what happened, it wasn't scary but it has that eerie atmosphere. I love it man.
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