AMFP Member Review Thread

[pagan]

I cannot believe this community. So TCR removes the inventory, and people have arguments over whether or not it's even a video game. ...Seriously

The problem is not the lack of inventory, or the sanity system, or stuff like that. The problem is that everything is simplified to almost nothing, almost every gameplay element have been removed, leaving nothing but walking in a linear corridor and reading notes. No interaction, no exploration, nothing. The way i was shepherded through a very linear path, while i couldn't interact with anything, and the doors were always opening and closing in a very contrived and illogical manner to keep me on the path was very immersion-breaking for me. No immersion, no player agency, no "telling the story by gameplay", after the first half hour i felt like an outside observer. The whole game-design went against everything that Thomas Grip is writing about on his blog. That's why i was surprised Frictional gave their blessing for this game.

If from the beginning it was declared to be a Dear Esther-like game, there wouldn't be so much outrage, but it wasn't, and the teasers suggested something entirely different as well.