Score: 6
"Torn"
date: November 19, 2009
I actually came back to this page after deciding not to review it, but decided that my indecision was cause enough for a review.
Overall, I felt like this was a missed opportunity. The artwork style is spot-on and the story is a good one, but several basics are missed along the way. Most glaringly of all being, "Why can't she just leave?!" Go to the neighbors and get help, for God's sake.
I've seen several complaints in the reviews for the "sex scene' which in reality is a "rape scene" and yes it should have been done without. Suggestion, has a much lower disgust factor and much higher scare factor and would have been the better route to take.
The instant-death factor is really only made intolerable by the fact that it takes so long to get started again. If this time were reduced, then I think there would be far fewer complaints.
The sad thing about this, I think you really showed potential to make a really great point 'n click horror story and it looks as though in the time that has passed you haven't taken what you learned from this to create something really amazing. That's a damn shame. I think a similiar art style and mood could lend itself to another improved story and you'd really have something.
Try again, I think it would be well worth it.
