A decent entry. The presentation and horror was fantastic, but the gameplay left much to be desired: no puzzles, no real exploration or sense of discovery either. In my opinion, the gameplay greatly hindered every other part of the game.
The game is played more like a choose-your-own-adventure style game rather than an RPG maker game, and I fail to see the advantage of it. It made the game less scary as all the horror was interrupted by walls of text and having to wait for your character to move all the way. This also made the game appear bigger than it is as you often have the ability to choose two or three paths only for only one of them leading forwards the others being a dead end. It also ended really abruptly and I'm not sure if I could have done something else but after trying again I failed the same way. There is also this chase sequence with the nurse, but after I completed that there seemed to be no story or gameplay relevance as I ended up in a place I could walk to anyway. All of this made me rate the gameplay poorly.
Now, the story was very interesting. It's split in a goofy bit where the teenagers challenge the little kid which gives the game a mask of not taking itself seriously, which is quickly thrown off when you actually enter the hospital: a great contrast. I have read all the notes but don't fully feel like I grasp the story, but I do have some idea of what happened in there and it wasn't good (child experimenting?). The game also had plenty of scares, being the most scary of all the entries.
This game was pretty interesting, the lore behind the abandoned hospital is decent, following typical virus outbreak storylines. There are a few errors with sentence structure which carries the sentence on too much or adds unnecessary language. Also a few places where words shouldn't even be such as on the 2nd agenda sheet it talks about a doctor spilling something on their computer then following with "Comput Then..." Which is most likely just a typo.
The game itself plays pretty well, and overall I would say it's a fun game. Another thing that doesn't make sense is why there's a 5 year old at an abandoned hospital and further more why a bunch of teens sent a 5 year old into an abandoned hospital. Just confused me a little on how that situation came about.
Overall I'd rate this game a solid 5.5/10 because I think a few things could be improved but it is still a pretty good game in concept, design and plot.
hi, thanks for playing the game and sorry for the spelling mistakes (English is not my main language so I had to translate everything with google, hehehe)
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A decent entry. The presentation and horror was fantastic, but the gameplay left much to be desired: no puzzles, no real exploration or sense of discovery either. In my opinion, the gameplay greatly hindered every other part of the game.
The game is played more like a choose-your-own-adventure style game rather than an RPG maker game, and I fail to see the advantage of it. It made the game less scary as all the horror was interrupted by walls of text and having to wait for your character to move all the way. This also made the game appear bigger than it is as you often have the ability to choose two or three paths only for only one of them leading forwards the others being a dead end. It also ended really abruptly and I'm not sure if I could have done something else but after trying again I failed the same way. There is also this chase sequence with the nurse, but after I completed that there seemed to be no story or gameplay relevance as I ended up in a place I could walk to anyway. All of this made me rate the gameplay poorly.
Now, the story was very interesting. It's split in a goofy bit where the teenagers challenge the little kid which gives the game a mask of not taking itself seriously, which is quickly thrown off when you actually enter the hospital: a great contrast. I have read all the notes but don't fully feel like I grasp the story, but I do have some idea of what happened in there and it wasn't good (child experimenting?). The game also had plenty of scares, being the most scary of all the entries.
My playthrough: https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1121874284
Any chance to save the game at any time? Or to skip the intro?
Game looks great though.
hello, you can save your game when you encounter any monster. it saves automatically when you move to another room anyway.
Ah, thanks a lot, this is helpful. I saw that there are autosaves, but I didn't know when they are done until your repost.. Thanks.
amazing game 10/10!
good game :)
This game was pretty interesting, the lore behind the abandoned hospital is decent, following typical virus outbreak storylines. There are a few errors with sentence structure which carries the sentence on too much or adds unnecessary language. Also a few places where words shouldn't even be such as on the 2nd agenda sheet it talks about a doctor spilling something on their computer then following with "Comput Then..." Which is most likely just a typo.
The game itself plays pretty well, and overall I would say it's a fun game. Another thing that doesn't make sense is why there's a 5 year old at an abandoned hospital and further more why a bunch of teens sent a 5 year old into an abandoned hospital. Just confused me a little on how that situation came about.
Overall I'd rate this game a solid 5.5/10 because I think a few things could be improved but it is still a pretty good game in concept, design and plot.
hi, thanks for playing the game and sorry for the spelling mistakes (English is not my main language so I had to translate everything with google, hehehe)