The Hole

What is The Hole? Well, given the level of "humour" on display in this "fantasy horror dark comedy" and it being solely crudely stupid innuendo, I can't be bothered to find out to be able to tell you. There's a couple of possible interpretations, what with it being how prisoners refer to solitary confinement and this is set in a prison. Yet, why if this is actually an eerie horror (which it atmospherically manages to be), is every single person mentioned in the game a stupid joke? Phil Accio, Harry Azcrak, Lou Briccant, and so on and so on. Here you are having woken up in normal suburbia and doing some mundane chores, when a series of spooky events sees you mysteriously teleported to a prison that is being roamed by some kind of monster. What then follows is a tedious and clunky hunt for clues and items whilst the monster can be heard snarling off somewhere in the distance, or occasionally appearing and then...well....it just disappears again. The game is weird because it seems like a fair bit of effort was put into giving it a creepy atmosphere and a fairly well designed environment. Somewhere along the way though they just went "f*ck this for a game of soldiers" and threw in the towel, then chucked out this piece of sh*t for a dirt-cheap price. Tonally there's a massive contrast between the relatively effective opening sequence, a mildly intriguing concept, decent graphics, sound and ambient music, that's then presented with sloppy controls and the immature and unfunny "humour". It's 79p and even less when I bought it on sale, but what is the point of it? It shows a 3rd person view on the steam page yet it wouldn't ever work for me in-game, nor did crouching, and sometimes the first-person camera would pass through bits of scenery. It's unpolished and boring, and it's this which bothers me most about this "game". I don't know why it's sh*tting on it's own story but I don't care to find out. This had potential but has clearly been shoved out uncooked to die an embarrassing death. At least when they're ripping off unsuspecting buyers it's not costing you that much money, though that's hardly a great selling point is it?