For example, at one point you have to give a special item to one of two characters. Even if it has a bad outcome down the line, it’s more the choice in the moment that matters. In the end, however, the choice that seems like the obvious good choice usually is. It seems like madness to spare some of these characters lives or help them in general. Trying to go for the good choice can even seem foolish or naive at times, especially if you’re a jaded person like myself who sees the world in shades of grey. You don’t always know who to trust, and it’s clear that people are hiding their true natures or lying to you for one reason or another. There are several moral choices to make, but they aren’t always obvious. Definitely slapped my forehead a couple times.Īs you explore this bleak, depressing, gory world, you’ll come across various interesting characters and monsters, all more unique than the last. I was only very briefly stuck three times, but it was because I didn’t notice a clue or item to examine, and they all seemed obvious in hindsight. But the puzzles are pretty much all very straightforward, and each area of the game only takes an hour and change or so to progress from. OhNoo is a very active developer, which is great. There were reports of bugs at launch but they appear to all be fixed, and I tried the game on my iPhone 5S and my iPad Air 2. So imagine my surprise when I found none in Tormentum. You almost always get two out of these three.
They usually have too many nonsense puzzles, they’re usually paced a bit too slowly, and they usually have some weird bugs. Here are the most common criticisms I find in my adventure games. Tormentum’s art is so detailed, with such strong shadows, and the game uses parallax scrolling so well at times, you’d almost think the game is 3D on occasion. Google image search both artists at your own peril, but you’ll probably see some NSFW stuff. Just look at all those Zs in his first name) but I’ve definitely seen his work before, which is equally brutal and metal. Giger, who you may recognize as the visionary designer of the Alien franchise, with art that fuses man and machine in painful and sometimes sexually suggestive looking ways, as well as polish (represent!) artist Zdzisław Beksiński, who I was unfamiliar with by name (my ancestral language is one of madness. The art style is heavily influenced by H.R. The big buzz of this game back when it was first crowdfunded was its inspiration, which the game wears proudly on its sleeve. But it pulls you into this world with the incredible artwork of the main illustrator Piotr Ruszkowski, and it just doesn’t let you go. What follows is a deceptively simple game that seems far deeper than it is. In the game, you play a cloaked and hooded fella with amnesia (of course) who wakes up in a cage hanging from an airship next to an anthropomorphic rat who tells you that you’re being taken to a castle to be punished for your evil deeds. As a fun side note, some of the IndieGoGo rewards included finding your name on a gravestone in the world, or finding your corpse, re-imagined by the artists based on a photo that you provided.
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It was crowdfunded on IndeiGoGo, approved on Steam Greenlight, released, and finally ported to iOS and Android a year later.
Tormentum – Dark Sorrow ($4.99) is an absolutely gorgeous powerhouse of an adventure game, and it is objectively incredible in many ways, even if it doesn’t appeal to your subjective tastes as hard as it does to mine.ĭeveloped by OhNoo Studios (Love the name), this game has had quite the adventure of its own. The App Store gods have been kind to my weird self this year, first with the gloriously twisted adventure tale of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream, and now with another point and click adventure that is just wrapped in brutal art within a bleak world and some moral quandaries that leave you thinking.
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