A series of horror adventure games that seems to have flown under most people's radar, but that I think to be fairly good. The puzzles are quite clever, and the game sticks with the old adventure game style of collecting lots of various types of junk, and eventually making progress with it, that mixes with a attractive realistic looking art-style, and adding some horror into the mix. Unlike some of it's predecessors, however, Black Mirror 2 & 3's (I wouldn't know about the first game, I haven't watched an LP of it) puzzles are fairly understandable, and most of the puzzles aren't that crazy. Most of them are fairly logical. You need to get a letter from a locked box, so what do you do? Go and bribe the local barkeep, and small-time thief with a few beers and some cash to give you a lockpick to open it! That's not to say that some of the puzzles are simple, however. One puzzle in the third game involves you having to scare two demons away from a room with a clever light turns on, other light turns off type puzzle, and making a path for yourself without dying.
This brings me to my next point, this game being a horror game. While I'm not much of an expert in the field of horror games, this game's horror just falls a bit flat. Taking a note from Yahtzee himself, there's a difference between startling and scaring. Some of the game's scares can make you jump like hell, one such example is when you're crawling under a grate in the sewers under a hotel that you pried up with a block of wood, when halfway from crawling under it, the block breaks and the grate cuts you in half. This happens so suddenly and out of seemingly nowhere, it's sure to make you jump, and is a trap that is certain to get nearly everyone on their first playthrough. Some of the game's scares are just cheap. That being said, however, some of the game's parts are legitimately scary, like the aforementioned light-dark maze.
All-in-all, I advise you all go give these games a play. You're all welcome to talk about your thought on the trilogy, and what have it.
A friendly flower, and your best friend. He has a knack for funny faces.
A series of horror adventure games that seems to have flown under most people's radar, but that I think to be fairly good. The puzzles are quite clever, and the game sticks with the old adventure game style of collecting lots of various types of junk, and eventually making progress with it, that mixes with a attractive realistic looking art-style, and adding some horror into the mix. Unlike some of it's predecessors, however, Black Mirror 2 & 3's (I wouldn't know about the first game, I haven't watched an LP of it) puzzles are fairly understandable, and most of the puzzles aren't that crazy. Most of them are fairly logical. You need to get a letter from a locked box, so what do you do? Go and bribe the local barkeep, and small-time thief with a few beers and some cash to give you a lockpick to open it! That's not to say that some of the puzzles are simple, however. One puzzle in the third game involves you having to scare two demons away from a room with a clever light turns on, other light turns off type puzzle, and making a path for yourself without dying.
This brings me to my next point, this game being a horror game. While I'm not much of an expert in the field of horror games, this game's horror just falls a bit flat. Taking a note from Yahtzee himself, there's a difference between startling and scaring. Some of the game's scares can make you jump like hell, one such example is when you're crawling under a grate in the sewers under a hotel that you pried up with a block of wood, when halfway from crawling under it, the block breaks and the grate cuts you in half. This happens so suddenly and out of seemingly nowhere, it's sure to make you jump, and is a trap that is certain to get nearly everyone on their first playthrough. Some of the game's scares are just cheap. That being said, however, some of the game's parts are legitimately scary, like the aforementioned light-dark maze.
All-in-all, I advise you all go give these games a play. You're all welcome to talk about your thought on the trilogy, and what have it.
A friendly flower, and your best friend. He has a knack for funny faces.