Score: 8
"Scary as hell...but.........."
date: June 17, 2009
Fantastic job on this game....At first the colored visuals threw me off, but the more I walked around and looked at the rooms I began to like them. However I do miss the gritty, dark and terriftying sense of the dark grey colors from the previous game.
Scare factor in this game is unbelievable!!! I have never jumped more times while playing a Flash game then I did while playing this. This game had the hairs on my arms and neck standing up the whole time. The death scenes were NICE and scary. One scene I must greatly applaud you for is after you get the key from the fire and in the hallway the things are pertruding out of the wall...then moments later BAM the monster comes from the window.....fantastic job...really scared the hell out of me...the doll room was really scary as well ;).
The overall visuals of the game were good...as i said earlier next time I advise going back to the original style of the first game; gritty, raw, and a feeling of true terror and darkness. The seeing of many more monsters and weird, creepy things coming out at you of the walls made me think, "dear God what is going on here??". The nightmare sequence at the beginning was very well made as well.
I also enjoyed how it showed and said that you already solved various puzzles the previous day...that was a simple, yet detailed touch and made me really feel trapped =).
Sound was PERFECT....i heard more creepy moans, growls, glass shattering and whispers i've ever heard in any game (Except Silent Hill ;) ). I was at the edge of my seat the whole time and especially in the kitchen when you sit there for a minute and hear the glass shatter than a growl of some sort..oh my god!!! great job there!!
BUT......
My BIGGEST complaint is simply....how the hell does it end??? I solved the last puzzle correctly and everything.....but nothing happens....as stated in previous reviews the only way I know it ends is by going back to the "safe room" and reading the Walkthrough and it tells me that it's over....wtf??? I'm not only upset by it, but dissapointed. The first game and then this was AMAZING...i mean really well made....BUT you really brought it down with not making the ending or something at least???? I do hope it's explained in the 3rd. game (if it will ever be made, i hope so!) as to what exactly happened that 2nd. night in the house after solving the puzzle.
Good game overall...just badly hurt with the mess up of no ending! come on!!!!
Hope to see the thrid one soon...and yes..i love how you coupled Alexander Poe's The Raven into the game as well...one of my all time favorite Poems =)...
