This resulted in some untimely deaths, backtracking, and really pushed me to play way more conservatively than I would have otherwise. This is something that was heartbreaking twenty years ago, and is just as bad today, considering most games have given us the creature comfort of saving every thirty seconds, and then saving again, just to be sure. Fail to find the next safe room/cassette and any progress you’ve made is completely lost. Throughout your journey, you’ll have to find single-use tapes to throw into an old-style recorder to save your progress. If you’ve never played one of the original heavyweights in the survival horror genre, auto save wasn’t in their vocabulary, and this game is no different, and it actually takes it one step further. Luckily, this is probably the game’s biggest and only really negatively impacting opportunity. However, I can see many player who would be turned off quickly by this, as it probably has some of the worst voice work I have ever heard, in any media, from 1995 or after.
This is something that I, as a huge fan of the games this title sought to imitate, can forgive. Literally every character sounds like they were voiced by someone who was shown a Let’s Play of the original Resident Evil, told to go for that, and then just spewed “Jill sandwich” ad nauseam at such rapid speeds it was modified in speed and pitch in post-production to form other words that vomited out of the speakers. The first, and arguably the biggest red flag that came busting through the wall with such speed and force I was half expecting it to growl “Starsssss” was the voice acting. Tormented Souls manages to nail every aspect, for better or worse, from the games that went bump in the night from my spooky childhood. Or a new nail gun to pop holes into monsters once the never-ending horror story that is 2021 throws another twist at us. Maybe pre-order the next Dead Space game. If I had a dollar for every throwback survival horror game that tried, and ultimately failed, at balancing a respectable throwback attempt with modern conveniences… I could probably buy something nice and shiny.
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