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Skywalker333 - 29 November 2017 02:54 AM

notanumber - 28 November 2017 06:56 PM

Sooo, sounds a bit like Syberia 3? I’m hearing direct control where you have to be positioned “just right” to activate hot spots. What’s wrong with point and click, anyway?

it cant be released easily on consoles or attract players that only game with gamepads, thats the reasoning.

That doesn’t really hold water for me, since point and clicks like Day of the Tentacle and Full Throttle have controller support on pc and were released on console. 

Anyway, didn’t the developers of Syberia 3 add point and click support in a patch?

Why is BM IV listed here as 2.5D in “Recent New Releases”, when it is realtime 3D gamepad crap?

Just got the game today for PS4. Sort of begrudged paying £34.99 for it but the Black Mirror series is one of my favourite adventure franchises.

First thoughts are slightly mixed. The story moves at a steady pace and it keeps you interested. I’m not sure the reboot and the originals are linked as this castle is set in Scotland and the originals were England. Not really sure why that were necessary, just more confusing than anything but hey ho. At this point the originals seem to be more eerie and disturbing than this reboot but i’m only on chapter 3 so far. The voice acting can be shaky but thats something i’m willing to accept for an adventure game. The castle is pretty cool to explore, especially at night time with its spooky shadow and lighting effects which the game does quite well. (in the daytime however I notice all doorways are just blackened out which is kind of lazy of the developers).

Onto the negative…

In some scenes the main character has visions where you must interact with hotspots and characters. However when you move too close to these visions for too long (a few seconds) you’re killed by them. This would have been fine, had it been done better. It’s just fiddly and the aim is a bit unclear which leaves you bashing X until something happens. I’ve accidentally skipped possibly important information because of this.

Now onto the really bad…

Its been mentioned but the loading times really are the worst i’ve ever seen, which is a massive shame. It completely takes you out of the game and ruins any momentum. Every time you leave a room/area there is a loading screen and its maddening. In a game like this where you are moving from room to room to explore and constantly interrupted each time by a loading screen is frustrating to say the least. The worst I’ve seen is when one cutscene is interrupted by a loading screen which goes into a 5 second cutscene, and then interrupted once again by a loading screen. WHY?! I’m not really sure why its necessary when we have games out right now that have massive worlds to explore and barely a loading screen to be seen. This really ought to be changed in a patch because it completely ruins any immersion the game has to offer.

So far i’m giving the game a 5.5/10. Honestly it would be a 7/10 without those pesky loading screens.

The more I’m playing the game, the less I’m liking it. At a certain point they just kinda stop putting puzzles in. It becomes “you need to use an item which you can find on the same screen or one screen over.” And the multiple puzzle solutions and decisions they allow you to make in the first chapter or two just stop happening.

Was this game meant to be episodic at any point? It honestly feels like they meant to divide the chapters into separate releases but then something fell through and they just had to jam the backend of the plot in at the end. It becomes rushed and incoherent.

These controls are ... bad. Really bad.

It’s Black Mirror, for sure. German Black Mirror and not Czech Black Mirror, unfortunately.

Gabe - 01 December 2017 04:37 AM

In era of techno horror must be most out of date adventure,why developers still wasting time with antiquated flicks, seems so redundant to me.

Techno went out of date in the 90s.

I’m enjoying the game, although Graphics can be strange at times.