Games You Played Today V: The Phantom Play’n

[ellaguro]

i’ve played it a little more. i still mostly stand by my observation in the SIGNALIS thread

SIGNALIS

okay, i played it for my stream. prob like 4 hours into the game now. observations: the UI is fucking awesome but a little confusing and dense. i found myself screwing around and going to the wrong menu constantly. maybe this is just a problem i have with a lot of games, but something about the way this game did it confused me more than usual. it is basically a Resident Evil clone. i.e. pretty much all the design tricks are things that are done in the first Resident Evil, other than like……

but it has integrated Silent Hill into its things it’s cribbing from… which is fine. Silent Hill cribbed from a lot of things anyway (David Lynch, the movie Jacob’s Ladder, John Carpenter etc). still really like the environments and overall aesthetic/presentation, still am amused by the anime robot girl story, still hate the combat and mostly find it pointless. def still into it enough to finish it though.

@isfet

still haven’t escaped the first area, but also not looking it up lol

also there are doors you can go through in places that are not always super easy to see (i.e. in what look like the middle of hallways). i got stuck on this in the demo. so maybe this helps.