And the crowd goes wild. A masterpiece of horror. An ingenious way of telling an award winning story. From the makers of Amnesia: The Dark Decent... it was bound to be groundbreaking. ... Yes. It was. It broke the filthy ground open and dragged my useless mind down into a pit of boredom. Six hours of boredom. Begin.
This game is a disgrace to horror. It's a pile of overpriced trash, and I beg everyone to never buy it. The developers don't deserve money for this, let alone 30 of your god given dollar bills. It starts off with some promise, but the game turns into a waste of life. It's like they wrote the concept for the gameplay on a sheet of paper and stapled the ends together. You just keep doing the same things over and over again... you walk down a long hall, you solve a pointless puzzle while debating philosophy with a door opener, then you run away from a monster that can't kill you. Repeat.
Let me tell you what this game did wrong. It introduced your character, who is a complete uninteresting dweeb who curses and shouts at every little inconvenience, then cracks pouty jokes the next moment. Then it introduced a woman who breaks the immersion of any hint of horror, like it's her job. She talks your ears off like nobody's business. That's not good for horror. And the little bits of lore in the game force you to memorize a terabyte of acronyms and names, but the story really never hits a climax. It's just slightly distraught people talking about technical stuff that the players will likely not care about. The first and last audio log in the game will sound about the same.
Don't waste your time with this game. It's getting a lot of good reviews, but they're from people that are either biased or actually have no idea what they're talking about. People slagged Machine for Pigs, but to be perfectly honest, the story was a billion times better than this crap. And what the heck is Soma? A Soma? Whatever... that wasn't even explained. Stupid game. Never buy it.