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The Medium tries to blend the point-and-click genre with survival horror, failing to live up to both. With a problematic story that quickly derails after a promising start and a main gimmick that is ultimately wasted by poor puzzle design, The Medium eventually falls short of its ambitions.
The game starts with Marianne, a young Polish woman, looking for a tie clip in her father’s house to adorn his body. After putting the finishing touches on the corpse – she used to help him in his Funeral House – the lights go out and Marianne sees herself in the “other side”: she’s a medium that sometimes, against her will, is pulled to this other plane of existence [...]
Observer is a first-person cyberpunk game with a horror twist: its protagonist can hack people’s minds, but they are nightmare-inducing places. Although initially interesting, Observer is a game that quickly loses its appeal: its main horror scenes drag on for too long, repeating the same tricks over and over, while its story is terribly structured, struggling to find a theme to focus on until the climax.
The game’s protagonist is a Polish police detective called Daniel Lazarski – played by Blade Runner’s Rutger Hauer – who, after receiving a mysterious call from his son Adam, goes to his tenement building to find out what is happening to Adam. There, instead of his son, the [...]