The Land of Pain

Что сказать, товарищи? Потраченного времени жаль. Мне продали сырую кривую АМНЕЗИЮ и заставили давиться и плакать за мои же деньги. Игра - отвратительная, сюжет - отсутствует, симулятор бега и хождения 10 из 10. Не советую тратить время и деньги лучше еще раз пройдете выше упомянутую амнезию.

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Didn't hate the game. The core story is cool. No technical problems, it was well executed. Where it falls short is the actual gameplay. Gets a bit boring at times, no real challenge, just walking back and forth finding items to move forward. Doesn't mean it's bad because of that but too much walking without feeling nervous or whatever. I can only think of a couple of moments that actually scared me or made me "feel" in general. Otherwise it's more of an aesthetic that tells you "you should be scared". To give credit where it is due, I liked that there are no invisible walls, for the most part when you can't go somewhere, there's a reason. If an obstacle is short enough, you can jump over it and sometimes it actually matters. And again, as a story I enjoyed it. With all its flaws, for the duration and the price, especially on sale, go for it. It's fine, no regrets.

It starts interesting enough and the graphics, even though old, still seem decent enough, but after the first chase sequence the game just seems bad, reusing very cheap assets.

[h1]THE LAND OF PAIN[/h1] First game by developer Alessandro Guzzo, I was more or so invested in the game and it was mostly enjoyable throughout the whole playthrough. The Lovecraftian story was engaging, the mystery of exploration and the creepiness of the adventure while avoiding that monster! Yeah... that one annoying and irritating entity that chases you around and doesn't let go! What's most annoying is if you are chased, you can forego any secrets that could be scattered around and that is such a shame. The visuals are still pretty nice to this day, almost 10 years later! The sounds and music does the job quite well too. Gameplay is mostly a walking simulator at times but you have to do many interactions with certain items, in order to progress the story. And that was another irritant and there is A LOT of backtracking since you require X item to open Y door (key, chainsaw, hammer... etc!) and doing all that while avoiding that monster... that just seems to sniff your @$$ even across the map. Not... fun! Sure the game would had been much shorter if some of these "puzzles" were removed but I think it would had been a better experience than padding the game longer than it's welcome. I did not encountered any bugs or technical issues. The game supports perfectly Ultrawide monitor, so that is a huge pro in my book! [h1]OVERALL & RECOMMENDATION:[/h1] Overall, I enjoyed this Lovecraftian game, even with the irritants! The story was good and I was hooked to know how it was going to end. It's clearly not perfect, the monster was annoying and at times, the objectives weren't too clear near the end. But I had played WAY worse games than this before. I recommend you give this a try if you do have an interest. It is surprising how talented the developer is and I am looking forward to play his other games... The Alien Cube and the latest one just released today, Cosmic Fear.

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Jogo extremamente entediante. É relativamente curto, de 2 horas, mas parecem 12. A história se arrasta e nunca se desenvolve completamente, as mecânicas e gameplay no geral são bem fracos, assim como o aspecto de terror (na minha opinião, é um game mais de suspense do que de fato terror). Além disso, a principal forma de gameplay, resolver os puzzles abrindo portas e objetos se torna muito repetitiva e cansa logo: Achou uma porta ➡️ encontre a chave ➡️ abra a porta ➡️ pegue o objeto dentro para prosseguir a historia. Isso se repete no mínimo umas 15x. Não vale nem em contexto de promoção.