Dead Beacon

I really wanted to like this game more than I ended up doing. Unfortunately some really awful design decisions held it back from being as good as it should have been. The main problem is that the mansion is at once too interconnected and not well defined for navigation. There are too many ways to end up in different areas that don't flow well. For example, once the central area of the Main Hall is available, you end up branching out on upwards of three different levels, doubling back on yourself multiple times, passing doors that are not marked, trying to remember which key went where. This was not helped by a truly awful map system where you mark notes down, only for the text to overlap onto different rooms and blend into walls. Add onto that that the mansion is too visually similar to itself in different areas, and building a mental map of the game becomes more trouble than it's worth. The statues of the Greek gods, which should be major landmarks, are all visually similar. They're all real life statues, rendered down, resting on red carpet with warm lighting and wooden floors. Then the developer buries an essential path to progression behind an honest to God merchant purchase halfway across the map and potentially hours later, and it's a miracle people figured out how to finish this game at all. Skip this game. If any of this looks appealing, play Nightmare of Decay instead. It's this game, but leaner, cleaner and prettier.

Dead Beacon was a SLOG to play through.. The melee requires charge up and does little damage, almost all the guns besides the magnum feel like you're blasting your enemy with NERF gun, your character slows down to a crawl every time they need to reload and still take forever to reload the gun. I have the mentality of someone who doesn't give up very easily. This game screwed me over not once, but twice.... The first time I didn't have enough ammo for the first boss, because I spent too much time over-exploring before fighting him. The game screwed me a second time on the third boss, as I didn't have enough rifle ammo to fight him, and the boss is a flying boss that never gets near enough for you to damage with a pistol/shotgun effectively. So having started this game over a 3rd time, having beaten the game, and gotten both endings B and A, I'm a little annoyed by quite a bit. First and foremost, the final boss is a joke compared to all the other bosses. Both endings are awful. Ending B is the bad ending which I get, but its not even a cut-scene, its literally a note you pick up and read. Ending A is supposed to be the good ending, but its not even really an ending. I've seen better endings to fairy tales made up by a 5-year old. To say that Dead Beacon is a bad game is an understatement. The game feels like it was in very early stages of development and then just released. Having played the excellent "Nightmare of Decay" first, Dead Beacon wasn't just a step down the stairs, it was a swift push down them followed by a disrespectful kick in the jewels.

This and Nightmare of Decay are what I would refer to as "RE7" likes. classic survival horror setup, but FPS perspective/combat great game go play it

Pretty solid

muy buen juego

cooles game. ich merkte sehr schnell die klare Anlehnung an Resident Evil. Sound von Türen, tickende Standuhr, Spinels, eine Residenz, Schüssel, Karte, Shotgun, Händler und und und. es hat mir super spass gemacht. extrem viel spass für so wenig Geld. hat sich echt gelohnt. die Mechanik beim Schießen hat mich an manchen stellen etwas gestört, weil treffer aus etwas größere Entfernung oft nicht gezählt werden. das ist aber auch schon das einzige Manko am game. tolle Rätsel und sehr gut abwechslungsreiche Bosse, die alle etwas anders zu besiegen sind. ganz klarer Kaufempfehlung für alle, die die sich an der Grafik nicht stören

Малобюджетный survival horror без изысков, но неплохой, если вы ищете что-то в духе старых Resident Evil. Внятная стрельба, простые, но местами хорошо обставленные пазлы. Отдельно выделю расстановку врагов, имеющую смысл как в контексте сюжета, так и с точки зрения создания интересных игровых ситуаций.

Что ж, мертвый бекон дропнут. Сурвайвал в духе Резика с оммажем на Nightmare of Decay оказался лютейшим проходняком. Пробегусь по минусам, плюсов здесь нет, хотя были все у того же мною с удовольствием пройденного Nightmare. 1. Кривизна управления. Чертовски странный баланс скорости в стороны с общим ощущением, что все в игре происходит под водой не дает игре плюсов, а лишь бесполезно увеличивает хронометраж. 2. Сюжет. Его тут просто нет. 3. Оружие не чувствуется от слова совсем и никак. 4. Раздражающие звуки без малейшего эмбиента. 5. Длинные пустые коридоры, не несущие в себе никакого смысла кроме растягивания хронометража. По итогу, 3/10. Я видел игры и похуже, но это очевидный незаслуживающий внимания проходняк с неизвестно откуда взявшимися очень положительными отзывами. Играйте в хорошие игры, товарисчи, а в дерьмо за вас буду играть я.