Hidden Fears (Moonlight Edition)

Very laggy and buggy, unplayable.

The story isn't bad but the gameplay really is. The loading times between EVERY SINGLE ROOM AND PUZZLE are ridiculous. Most of the "puzzles" are really just time wasters or reflex testers. The game also tends to crash a lot. It's too bad because because the story seemed fun and the art wasn't bad. The voice acting was terrible though. Just don't voice it if you can't hire good VA please.

It wasn't that I didn't like the idea for what the game tried to do, but for one thing the puzzles were so very linear. You really couldn't progress without finding the ONE thing to move forward and then had to back pedal to the whichever room you needed to get back to. As to the controls during "ghost battles" they were so wonky at the best to times that it bordered on frustrating and aggravating. It was extremely easy to not hit arrows or lines if you so much as moved a smidgen of an inch in what the game assumed was the wrong direction. And if you failed so much as a key mech at the wrong time, you were then force you to do the whole thing all over again from the start. The voice acting for most of the characters was pretty good except for the main character... he just felt like he was phoning it at times. So much potential could have been saved if they had better beta testers who said, "No, wait, these controls suck."

I really wanted to like this game. I really, really did. On the surface is has all I want, being a horror themed casual hidden object game but with some interesting twists in the game mechanics that make it a fresh take on the genre. Yet it's pretty near unplayable at times. A good chunk of that unplayability is just how slow this game is. 10 to 30 second black screen load times between each room is just not a pain most people are willing to subject themselves to. But even if that bug would somehow been eliminated from the game it still has some speed issues, of being too fast and unforgiving that is. I have not found myself clicking the Skip button as routinely as I did with this game bc some of the minigames just felt impossible to pass on my own. And maybe they aren't but who knows because what this game also lacks is proper tutorials and guidance. It tells you that you need to achieve this and that in order to win a game but omits the actual how-to almost entirely. In multiple occasions you are told you have limited time to solve the puzzle, but no counter, just an ominous ball of lightning closing in and ZAP, you're back to where you started in a multi-level puzzle. And this is where I finally gave up on this game, on a ZAP, you're back to where you started on a multi-level puzzle, the puzzle being the apparent last boss fight. You have health that regenerates with time but if you are in any ways confused or late at the beginning of a fight (maybe bc of a lagging game with long load times) you will lose all of it in one go, resulting in any boss fight becoming one mistake will send you all the way to the beginning in a sucks to be you kinda affair. Yet I can't say that I don't want to see this type of game again. I enjoyed the limited action aspect tho I felt it would have better suited a touch screen rather than mouse. It's just this particular game that I cannot recommend.

Я не понимаю, откуда люди берут негатив к этой игре. Игра довольно дешевая, и за свои деньги в ней все отлично. Хочу выделить интересный сюжет, с музыкой тут тоже все в порядке. Я могу рекомендовать эту игру, как минимум себе в коллекцию игр.