To this effect, most of the puzzle-solving in this game is actually quite clever (though asking the player to pick a tricky lock puzzle in the midst of the climactic boss fight while a monster clobbers you from the side was perhaps pushing the friendship a little)! And the learning curve applied to these virtual "mini-game-within-a-game"s is mostly realistic and achievable, even for a certifiable doofus such as I. One improvement it arguably makes over the original are the very distinct "special abilities" which each character has, all of which you will at some point REQUIRE to make progress through the game (as opposed to the "vaguely-useful-but-mostly-inessential" abilities evidenced by most of the characters in Obscure 1).
Given that I had slightly higher expectations of this one in the wake of its more-than-serviceable predecessor, I wouldn't say that I'm "disappointed" so much as a little bewildered at just how nutty and, well, frankly "incompetent" this one so often is.ĭon't get me wrong: There's a lot of REALLY GOOD IDEAS here. I recently played and wrote a review of the first Obscure in which I declared it a "pleasant surprise", or words to roughly that effect. Compatible with the Xbox 360 controller.Ĭombine a storyline more loopy and incoherent than almost every Japanese anime ever made, a cumbersome real-time item-choosing system guaranteed to make you use those medkits even faster, a save system which ensures you'll have to waste countless minutes at a time getting back to the bit which killed you in the first place, the occasional obstructive "camera angle" almost deliberately designed to ♥♥♥♥ you six-ways-to-Sunday, and some of the ♥♥♥♥♥iest boss fights in all of video game history.and what do you have? Well, oddly enough, a mostly enjoyable and worthwhile gaming experience.but ONLY if you've already played several dozen other post-Resident Evil third-person "survival horror" games, and are so addicted to such curiosities that you'll endure almost any level of punishment in search of that next elusive "fix". Stunning soundtrack composed by Olivier Derivière and performed by the Boston Symphonic Orchestra and the Paris Opera Children's Choir. Co-op mode: a second player can join the game at any time. 6 charismatic characters with unique skills. Adventure and action with a teen horror-movie scenario. The sequel to ObsCure, the game that has become a classic in the survival horror genre. When the seeds finally sprout, nightmare suddenly turns into horrifying reality. A handful of students learn that the flowers are far more dangerous than they seem. Now, the survivors have picked up the pieces of their lives and gone to college.īut all is not right at Fallcreek University: strange flowers suddenly appear everywhere on the campus, flowers that contain a dangerous substance that induces strange but vivid dreams. Some of them survived that terrible night, while others perished. They suffered through the longest night of their lives, chased by abominable creatures created by their principal. Two years ago, a group of young teenagers found themselves trapped inside their school.
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