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October - Horrorthon
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01-10-2021 11:13am#1Join Date:Posts: 49971
I used to drop everything and have a month of horror games in October but haven't really been able to the last few years. I'm going to have a go of it this year.
I'll use this to update what games I try and progress. You can join if you want, the more the merrier but if not then fine by me.
To start I'll be considering tackling these three games first and hopefully getting through them:
Enemy Zero (saturn)
Clock Tower (SNES)
Sweet Home (Famicom/NES)
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Well horror games in October not off to a great start.
I did play a bit of Yakuza Dead Souls. It's not an amazing game but for Yakuza fans there's a lot of humour even if the gameplay is a bit rough. Some of the substories are hilarious. Won't be playing much of this as I'm only able to play when I'm visiting the parents.
Tried to get Enemy Zero working but no luck. Saturn emulation has an issue with multi disc games so if I get to the part where the disc needs to be swapped I won't be able to continue the game. Really frustrating.
I'm going to try the PC version but it being a PC version from 1998 it probably won't work.
I could just dig out the saturn but it's buried in my parents attic.
Anyway I think I might have to try the other two games first.
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I'm enjoying Enemy Zero. It'd very dated though. The writing is really bad and the story is just a rip off of the Aliens films. The gameplay though is genuinely terrifying. Having a gun with only 2 or 3 shots and getting hunted by enemies that are invisible and you can only tell where they are from sound is so tense. Also the gun only works are point blank range.
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And game number one is down!
Enemy Zero is and interesting game that succeeds as a horror game and totally fails narratively. I actually did enjoy it but jesus the writing is dreadful.
Leaving my full thought on the game completion thread.
Think it will be Sweet Home next, the famicom/NES game that would inspire the Resident Evil franchise.
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Started Sweet Home last night.
What a fantastic and inventive little game. You can really see how this game influenced Resident Evil.
It's basically Resident Evil as a JRPG. You have a team of five but have to split them as you can only have a team of three in a group. You can switch between them and send them to different areas. It plays with this mechanic loads. You can even call the other team into battle if you are having a tough time.
Each character has their own unique item to use in battle or for puzzles. You have to be careful as items are one use and there's only a certain amount in the game and if you lose a character they are gone permanently. Anyway my first game ended in disaster when I lost the character with the medkit to an overpowered zombie. Going to start again and be more careful. You can save anywhere and I think I should be using that a lot more!
Really nothing else like this game, it's fantastic.
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Not had a whole lot of time to play Sweet Home. I got through the first major area. Still absolutely love the game but there is one flaw, you can very easily soft lock the game. You need to use wooden planks to cross small gaps at points an these can break at random. But you can also run out of these planks and leave you characters stranded. I suppose you are supposed to only cross with a single character and hope you don't have to rescue them if the plank breaks.
At least you can save anywhere so you can save before messing with wooden planks and restarting and reloading is near instantaneous.
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