![]() ![]() ![]() And I don’t mean “complex” in terms of difficulty - I mean that this is one of those games where you have to backtrack constantly, since it delights in having you go from Point A to Point J via Point Q, sending you back and forth just to perform the most menial of tasks. I’m skeptical you’ll even have those jump scares, though, since True Fear: Forsaken Souls – Part 1 commits the cardinal sin of making its puzzles too complex for their own good. It has fairly low production values, with generic music and middling graphics, which means that, at best, you might get a jump scare or two. But that highlights one of its major flaws: it’s not scary, either. And not a particularly interesting one at that, since the puzzles are rarely, if ever, challenging, and the game lacks any of the humour that has come to define the genre over the last several decades.Īdmittedly, the main reason it’s not funny is because True Fear: Forsaken Souls – Part 1 aspires to be a horror game. In other words, True Fear: Forsaken Souls – Part 1 is basically just a standard point & click adventure game. They’re all there so you can work out puzzles that need to be solved in order for the game to progress. There are, to be sure, static screens where you have to find objects, but none of these objects are random. There are no static screens full of hidden numbers or incongruous boats or oddly-placed swords or anything, no lists of random items you have to discover before you can find the one thing you need for the game to progress. Here’s the thing, though: True Fear: Forsaken Souls – Part 1 doesn’t actually have any hidden object puzzles, at least not in any traditional sense. I mean, technically its description in the PlayStation Store says you can turn those on or off, but when they’re on, to me that means that the game is, ipso facto, a hidden object game. See, it describes itself as a hidden object game. I never thought I’d have very strong opinions about what does and doesn’t constitute a hidden object game, but True Fear: Forsaken Souls – Part 1 is certainly testing that resolve. ![]()
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