Vernon's Legacy

I sampled this game's early stages, and despite some questionable inventory design and illogical puzzles the atmosphere and plot (the story is told entirely through notes) was really rather engaging. The beauty of the Unreal Engine 4 shone through, if not exactly the best use of it I'd ever seen, and overall it was looking like a really enjoyable and spooky horror story. Having played 81 minutes now I've had it refunded - what looked truly like a great little indie game was an ultimate failure, let down by a game design choice which absolutely destroyed it from around 40 minutes of gameplay onwards. Initially we had a spooky mansion setting, and quite a gripping one at that - foreboding atmosphere and some nice ambience as well as the gothic look of the place made this compelling enough to want to go on. And unfortunately that was where it unravelled - that initial setting was by far the best area, as once you end up deeper in the game and are introduced to the entity which pursues ...

I recommend this game with mixed feelings. I bought this on sale, and I think that is when it should be bought. Lets get the good stuff out of the way, because there is a good bit. The game is gorgeous. The mansion looks creepy and has a definite sense of foreboding. As you explore the mansion, the only soundtrack you get is the thunderstorm happening outside. I loved it. Sadly, the only music soundtrack you get is when you are reading notes, and it is highly repetitive. I feel that it breaks the rhythm of the game. I loved walking through a beautiful mansion at night with no musical accompaniment. I loved finding and reading all over the place to get the story. There were some light puzzles, but backtracking wasn't a big hindrance. Hindrances came in part 2 of the game but we'll get to that. Part 1 of the game took place in the mansion: reading notes and solving light puzzles until you get to Part 2, which changes locations and feel......and not all for the better. The bowels of th...

Oh my god, where to even begin with this steaming mound of unpolished, overpriced fodder. Vernon's Legacy is the first, and only, game by publisher/developer TripleBrick. It's your standard walking, key and note finding, simulator. Worse than that, however, is just how poorly this title runs, and just how much of the developer's laziness shines through. First of all, no matter what I do I cannot get this game to run in any type of full screen, 1080p mode. Why is there no resolution option in-game? Is that seriously too much to ask for? Hitting ALT+Enter just cycles through a bunch of preset options, and none of which are even remotely ideal for any PC built in the last 10 years. On top of that, TripleBrick couldn't be bothered to untick that one Unreal Engine checkbox that makes their game want to launch in freaking VR, so I have to put up with that running in the background on top of the resolution problems. There's also no VSync, so have fun listening to your HDD grind while the gam...

[h1]Promising start, but most of it feels like a rush job, only get this on a deal.[/h1] [i]The Good[/i] This game starts out very promising in a well designed, graphically impressive house ca. 1900. There are a bunch of notes which give you an idea of the lives of the people living there and of the strange things they experienced in the basement. The game has a spooky atmosphere and in order to get to the basement you have to solve some fairly clever puzzles. Not really hard, not too ease and they fit in nicely with the overall level design. All the clues you need to solve them are in plain sight and I enjoyed solving most of them. The sound design is sparse, with no voice acting and very little music, mostly when you open up the journal in order to read notes, but what there is helps to set the mood. So far so good. [i]The Bad[/i] While I haven't encountered any gamebreaking bugs or glitches and the game has never crashed, there are a lot of small design issues that should've been ...

The full game is finally out, and it's a pretty enjojyable trip. The story is intriguing, graphics are beautiful, and somewhat reminiscent of Amneisa. The story is told almost exclusively through the notes you find around the manor, and even though I'm usually not a huge fan of that, this game somehow makes it work. However, the biggest downfall of the game is really the "enemy" that starts chasing you. It is rather forgetful, and were it not for the great atmoshpere, it really wouldn't be nerveracking at all. And after encounetering it a few time, it becomes more of a chore to avoid it, instead of fear. The game ends up being more of just a scarry story, than actively trying to get away from something. If you want to take a look at the game before buying, consider checking out my walkthrough! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ycbv_9uaqo&index=1&list=PLKMxTuqznyPM86bguxKr5xFbzPhtljbW1

There's not even a game here! Its no more than a map and spooky sound effects. Don't even get me started on the sp00ky skull in the basement. That music puzzle that isn't even a music puzzle. The obscure passwords hidden in textures without so much as a hint. If they add a game, buy it, till then, save your money for something fun, like cigarettes. If you need your P.T. 2.0 fix, wait for Visage. 1/5 +1 point for visuals -4 points for being a buggy incomplete mess

All I can say is " Was I playing the same game " or are some people easily pleased.there where halls that went nowhere ,boxes flying around,difficulty picking items up and fuzzy graphics just glad It was cheap

The developers added 30 minutes more worth of content, and called it finished. This game had so much promise when I played it when it first came into early access. The first 3/4 of the game is really really good, with very clever and logical puzzles. Then once you enter the vault its all downhill from there, you'll spend most of the remaining minutes of the game running from a really generic looking and rather annoying "ghost". Get it cheap or don't get it at all, they really dropped the ball on this one.

It's just a clone of Amnesia only worse in every single possible way. The notes scattered throughout the game were semi-interesting to read, so I thought it could all wrap up to a decent ending. Alas, it fell flat on its face. I was severely disappointed at the extremely boring and lackluster ending. By the time it came I was so relieved that it was finally over. I suppose if you want to play a semi-fun, mediocre horror game it might be worth playing if you: A) Have nothing better to do B) Can get it for $3 or less. It's not worth a penny more.

b-class horror game. -gather notes to learn story -some puzzles -the monster is kinda meh. -ending is just front page of newspaper