5/24/2023 0 Comments Tormentum dark sorrow guard![]() Something I found interesting that caught me off guard was that the game has a moral choice system, which I half-knew going in, but it didn’t make itself obvious right away. While very macabre and even disturbing, it does a great job of demonstrating beauty in the grotesque. While I do think the game would have benefited from a stronger and more singular setting, the art was always stunning to look at. On this front the game never really disappointed either. The artistic style is actually what made this game appeal to me more than anything else, ultimately resulting in me picking it up. Giger - with more of a medieval twist - presenting a nightmarish world full of twisted beings and landscapes. While a multitude of other reviewers have said so already, it does greatly resemble the work of H. ![]() Where the game really shines is in the art direction. They could have been a little more challenging, for me personally, but I don’t think this took away from the experience all that much. ![]() The puzzles themselves are fairly challenging, forcing me to give them a fair amount of thought at times, but at no point did I ever feel too stumped either. The gameplay consists primarily of searching for objects of interest in different areas in order to solve puzzles and progress. With no memory of who you are or why you’re there, you must endeavour to escape from the castle and rediscover who you are. The ship descends into a haunting castle surrounded by a hellish landscape, where you are then imprisoned. You play as an unnamed hooded man, who wakes up in a cage next to another prisoner, hanging from a nightmarish airship. While I don’t typically want to be reviewing video games on this blog because I want things to be more story focused, I feel that the genre of this game is centred around story enough that I can justify a full review. I recently finished playing the horror point-and-click adventure game Tormentum: Dark Sorrow, released on Steam for personal computers and developed by OhNoo Studio.
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