Hell is Us

Great game

7.5/10 Great game. A story so intricate, sad and filled with hedious acts that will make you question who really are the bad guys. However, too much walking to finish quests and get rewards. Still a great game with very good combat and graphics

This game is really really good forget all the people complaining about the combat it is fine it is nothing like souls I would say it is easy. The exploration and the puzzles are not for the average player. You have to really think read all the evidence to figure out a puzzle reminds me of when games were hard unlike today.

A must play if you like intricately detailed and strange fantasy, with a side of genocide and other assorted war crimes. This game is profoundly weird and profoundly horrifying and its only really let down by middling combat, but if you look past it you will love everything else about it.

It's not a bad game, but the lore is difficult to follow, combat and combat animations are a bit off and in general, I simply got bored...

The narrative, world, and lore are excellent. The detective-style investigation is one of the game's greatest strengths. I also appreciated the lack of objective markers and the trust the game places in the player to figure things out. However, the game isn't always consistent in how it expects the player to operate, and that inconsistency became increasingly fatiguing over time. 1. The combat felt awkward to me. It took me a long time—and ultimately a custom control scheme—to become comfortable with it. a) Attack directions are dependent on the direction your character is facing, not the direction of the camera. That would be fine, except while exploring (which you do a lot), your flashlight follows the camera instead of your character. This creates two different control paradigms for exploration and combat. In practice, you can be looking directly at an enemy but still attack in a different direction because your character isn't facing the same way. A soft-targeting system would go a long way here. I also found the lock-on system to be more of a hindrance than a help. b) Inputs for combat are a commitment. The game is very dedicated to finishing the animation and this leads you to do a lot more slow-paced and intentional combat as opposed to hack-and-slashing. Combat is less about stats and more about committing to each action. It's not inherently bad but it does make the combat feel awkward and takes some getting used to. c) Even with a controller (as recommended), I found the combat to be too reliant on timing and modifiers. I found the difficulty wasn't dealing with incoming damage, but managing all of the required inputs simultaneously. Ironically, switching from a controller to my Logitech G600 MMO mouse + keyboard dramatically improved combat for me because I could map every action directly and use a modifier without sacrificing movement. Had I not changed control schemes, I'm honestly not sure I would have finished the game. 2. The game asks the player to do a lot of traversal. I don't mind exploration—I actually enjoyed figuring things out without objective markers—but too often I found myself walking long distances simply to locate the clue that would allow me to solve the actual puzzle. The puzzle solving wasn't the problem. The travel between meaningful moments was. 3. There's a momentum loss in the flow of the game. The first half of the game is excellent because almost every step forward reveals something new about Hadea and its history. By the later acts, however, the game becomes increasingly reliant on long dungeons, repeated traversal, and backtracking. I found myself wanting to see where the story went, but increasingly frustrated by the amount of traversal and backtracking between major revelations. Then the final act of the game ends very shortly after the previous act, which was a bit of a gut punch since I was invested in the story only to get no real closure on it. Despite these criticisms, I'm still glad I played it because the world and mystery were compelling enough to carry me to the end. The world-building was truly excellent. I initially set out to complete everything. By the end, though, I was fatigued enough by the traversal and inconsistencies that I chose to finish the story and move on. Finishing the remainder of objectives felt too much like a grind at that point, which is a shame, because the world itself deserved my curiosity all the way to 100%.