As the curtain goes up, he's driven to a motel to break off a torrid affair, only for somebody (Wake?) to steal his car and maroon him outside Dormont - a spookily abandoned, predictably metaphysical town whose shadows are filled with knife-wielding spectres, their eyes flickering in the depths of closets and cornfields. Leading man Edward is drinking and monologuing himself into an early grave over the loss of his family, as leading men in horror games often do. The premise is Silent Hill as rewritten by an Alan Wake who has run out of coffee, and possibly self-respect. Those Who Remain does have some neat ideas, but all of them are squashed beneath a great steaming heap of mediocrity. Let me tell you: I wish I'd stopped at the lions.
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But I came back the next morning and beat the area, thanks partly to bloody-mindedness and partly (I speculate) to a developer update that prevents the monster from chasing you endlessly once alerted. After my eighth try I decided that life was too short. These burdens create tension, of course, but only for the few seconds it takes you to realise that you're playing a mandatory-stealth McGuffin-fetching puzzle with instadeath.
The main character has no means of defending himself, so you must take winding routes to those plinths while lugging chunks of Umbrella Mansion Surplus stoneware that prevent you from sprinting, block the view and have a habit of jumping out of your hands.
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There's a lot of that kind of thing in Those Who Remain - accusing messages on walls, silver-masked demons chortling about sin and forgiveness - but for the most part, the emotions you're repressing are boredom and frustration. The problem is that there's a monster in your path, an oily personification of buried guilt and suffering. The idea is to carry the statues to candlelit plinths. One such puzzle is a labyrinth dotted with lion statues. A first-person blunderfest for horror obsessives only, the game's setting is split between a menacing night-time reality and a weed-choked, oceanic otherworld in which objects float and the puzzles are more, well, videogamey. I almost gave up on Those Who Remain halfway through. Those Who Remain is like a new dish created by an inexperienced chef haphazardly combining a variety of his favorite flavors: laudable in aspiration, but unlikely to prove tasty to very many people.A couple of nifty concepts can't save this uninspired genre piece from its shortage of character or fear. Opening endless empty drawers in hopes of finding something useful and trying to edge around corners looking for a light switch without any indication as to how close you're getting to the instantly lethal darkness just isn't much fun - especially when death means reverting to a distant saved game that forces you to begin exploring the current area from scratch. While it's always nice to see a game that makes exploration and puzzle solving its focus rather than mindless shooting or hacking and slashing, an extra level of care needs to be put into these games' mechanics to make them compelling. Muddy looking graphics, frequent technical issues, middling writing, and stale voice acting put a damper on things, forcing unavoidable, unfavorable comparisons to horror games made with more time, resources, and quality assurance testing. Unfortunately, all this ambition clearly outstrips the game's budget. The notion of using darkness as a deadly, physical manifestation of fear and evil is, if not terribly original, at least compelling, and makes for some interesting puzzles - especially in moments when you travel through a Twilight Zone-style light door into a mirror dimension where you can move objects and change things that will remain changed in the real world. You'll be torn up over the decisions you have to make, mainly because Edward is a deeply flawed protagonist desperate to be forgiven. Those Who Remain is an ambitious attempt to create a thoughtful horror experience that makes players really consider what's right, what's wrong, and if and when people who've made mistakes deserve a chance to redeem themselves. It's best to be in a forgiving frame of mind while playing this one, and not just because you're presented with plenty of situations where you'll be judging the fate of characters who have done wrong.
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