True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2

I love games of this genre and have a mild obsession with 100%ing them for achievements (it's just SATISFYING lol) so was looking forward to playing FS2 given it has been sat untouched in my Steam library for ages. I wouldn't consider myself difficult to please with these sorts of games either because the gameplay loop of them is generally quite chill and enjoyable, however you will have noticed that I didn't recommend this one, here's why (I'm sorry devs lol): [list] [*][b]Janky UI:[/b] My god the amount of times I'd be trying to click something near the bottom of the screen and it'd take me back a room. Once or twice is forgiveable and perhaps my fault but during certain puzzles it'd happen way too often. Credit where credit is due- I didn't lose puzzle progress because of this but it was still [i]intensely[/i] annoying. [*][b]TOO MUCH STUFF:[/b] I can't say I recall ever playing a HOG before where I have almost three bars worth of items at once. It's legit overwhelming and turns a relaxing experience into a needlessly frustrating one. Add to that the heinous amount of available locations and it's a recipe for chaos. I rarely need guides for hidden object games (besides the odd puzzle that 404s me) but I tapped out and ended up having to follow a guide for FS2 because I got to a point where I just didn't know what to do with my hoarder inventory or where to put it. I don't like it when you're kinda relegated to the same four rooms in this genre but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I felt like my head was going to pop off at times with this one. [*][b]Story:[/b] I admit I haven't played the first game, so I know I'll have missed some callbacks which I didn't mind (it did a decent job at catching you up, to be fair) but the overall story itself just felt a bit nonsensical. I was doing x to achieve y but didn't really know why I was doing it. I felt like the story got more and more diluted as it went on and the ending had me sat there like [i]wtf I DON'T GET IT-[/i] [*][b]Achievement bugs:[/b] The biggest thing that made me not recommend this game; listen I get some people aren't as frothing at the mouth over achievements as I am, but I sank over 15 hours into this game to get 100%, and it still bugged out on me and won't give me the last 2 (I noticed in Steam's discussions quite a few people have had this issue). I used a guide for my 2nd playthrough and clicked every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ clickable thing in this game and it still won't pop the two achievements I need. I refuse to sink another several hours into running this game for one simple reason: [b]you cannot play through the game on a different difficulty without making a NEW profile![/b] This means you have to run the entire game, on expert difficulty, without missing a SINGLE ITEM/COLLECTIBLE, because if you miss ONE single thing, you've gotta do it all again because one of the achievements is getting all of them on ONE profile. Honestly, the other stuff I can grumble about and move past but this decision by the devs is so stupid I really can't comprehend it. No respect for players time whatsoever, [i]infuriating[/i] even. [/list] Oh, but the art was nice. [i]Now excuse me while I go sulk in the corner because this will forever be sat at 27/29 in my library, never to be played again.[/i] [b]EDIT: Found a solution for the folks with bugged achievements [url=https://steamcommunity.com/app/935580/discussions/0/802344041053191532]here[/url] in one of many discussion threads![/b]

Good gameplay and intense video clips. Missing the hidden object part from Part 1