Fragile Reflection

It's almost like it's missing another 6 months of mechanical polish, it's not a bad survival-horror, it's just a bit janky and somewhat underdeveloped (depending on the area), that said, I can tell the developer cares about the medium, it's just one of those things, the intent is good, the result is maybe not so great. To be fair when it comes to PS1 inspired horror that janky feeling is almost a feature, there is a threshold of "bad" that I will accept, but I do think this game need more than a few adjustments. There is a world where this game can be much better, it's just a depends if the developer wants to keep working on it, will that happen, I don't know. There is clearly some heavy Silent Hill inspiration, even to a point where it feels like it recreates similar scenes and locations, which is not super original, but many games do it, and hell, maybe you want that anyway. I don't have a problem with how the game looks, although the navigation in this game can be a bit disorientin...

so this game released as a finished project, not early access, so i am going to judge it as a full release. this game needs a minimum of 6-9 months more to bake. the user experience is just pathetic, unfortunately. it just feels like a student project or game jam with no polish whatsoever, which imo is not worth the $13. the market for sub $15 survival horror games has a lot of good to offer and this just doesnt stand tall with them. i really wanted to give this game a try, it has potential but its not worth the price rn, sorry. some of the issues i had within 15 minutes; cutscenes either WAY too loud or no audio at all. extremely clunky inventory ui all tutorials prompted the A button, regardless of the actual input for the command. floaty combat with no response. settings menu jank, sliders having way too strong of an effect. dialogue either being way too loud or way too quiet. the world had no interactions other than key items and doors, no "its locked" or "theres nothing in there...

They're quickly fixing bugs and adding QOL updates, and you can tell a lot of love went into this game to begin with. It's really a nice atmospheric homage to classic survival horror. Love it!

I still haven’t finished the game, but will on this week I’ve encountered some bugs ofc, but it seems that dev is fixing them, so don’t care honestly, enemy difficulty have recently improved, so gonna finish it soon!! Atmosphere is NAILING, as well as the music. The story is somewhat confusing now (again still haven’t finished yet), but I will figure it out. The overall gameplay is sending me back to Silent Hill (the true feeling of this COMBAT is recreated) anyway I think the game is good overall, just little bit rough (but it’s definitely changeable)

The first game ever to feature a logarithmic camera sensitivity slider!