I made this little edit for a video on my Gameplays channel, to commemorate the final chapter of the series. and since I liked how it turned out I decided to upload it here too, one more video is one more video xd.
Remorse The List is an Indie horror game that caught my attention a long time ago with its Trailer. It is greatly inspired by another Indie horror that I really liked at the time, "Cry Of Fear". Both games share many similarities, such as the strange design of their enemies, each representing certain traumas or memories of the protagonist, also accompanied by very fast and erratic movement animations. Another similarity they have is in the visual and how well designed the disturbing scenarios are that use lights and shadows very well that always keep us with the feeling of insecurity in every step we take.
And finally, another great similarity they have is in the ambiguity of their deceptive history. During most of the game they give us very small clues about the story, always leaving many unknowns and without giving us precise answers so that the player can form theories about what happened. Another way that the game gives us clues is in the large number but subtle metaphors that some parts of the scenarios or enemy designs have, making each little thing another piece of information in the story puzzle.
But personally I enjoyed Cry of Fear much more. This game, at least for me, after a few hours the fear is lost quite quickly with the monotonous gameplay it has. While in my case Cry of Fear kept me afraid and interested throughout the game.
In my case I feel that this happens for two reasons: 1- because of the weapons: in this game they are very simple and boring to use, they even have bad shooting animations and unsatisfactory sound and even somewhat buggy at times. While in Cry of Fear the weapons felt much better when using them, the sound and animations were very good, and also that aiming had its complications since the protagonist was a normal young man with fear and without any type of training, and the The game took this into account, making aiming difficult and even worse with enemies with such fast and erratic movements. The weapons also had a mechanic that I loved, which was that if you reloaded while the magazine had bullets, the bullets inside that magazine would be lost, making you have to decide at every moment whether to fight with the disadvantage of having few bullets in the tank. magazine and that you may very well have to reload in the middle of the fight, or play it more safely by reloading the weapon and wasting ammunition but running less danger in the next fight. All of this made the weapons in Cry of Fear feel more realistic and fun to use.
Reason 2 why I liked it less was because of the Protagonist: In Cry of Fear "Simon" is a protagonist with dialogues and cinematics in every important moment of the game, and he even has comments when interacting with various objects showing us his opinion and their shape of thinking. To sum it up, he is a great character with excellent development, and it is very easy to empathize with him.
While Remorse's protagonist is a mere avatar for the player, he has no lines of dialogue or cinematics that highlight the protagonist. He is a simple NPC that we use to fight and get from point A to point B. and the only way we have to empathize with him is in some of the notes and audios in which he is mentioned. All this makes the protagonist and us feel very alien to the story that the game is telling us.
But despite the bad things it has, it is still a good horror game. You will never forget all the fear that happens in the first hours of the game.
Music:
OMORI - OMORI [guilty ver.]:
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