Massacre At The Mirage

What's most frustrating about this game is that it began to show so potential towards the end but is too riddled with flaws to be recommended. This is a game where the antagonist tried to kill the player by boring them to death. The voice acting is mediocre. Lines are delivered as if they were each recorded in isolation (not is a charmingly uncanny SH2 way). I found my self mocking each delivery, and by the end I was skipping through dialogue. The game doesn't know what it wants to be and has completely disparate gameplay elements, all boring. The actual gameplay consists of heavily padded walking 'here' to take something 'there' while bumbling around in a poorly lit room looking for the thing you need. This happens when you switch to a different character which immediately signals that this character is about to die and removes any tension from the horror. The padded nature of these tasks adds to the boredom and makes the player want to get the whole thing over with, further removing any horror that would come about the intricate death sequences. You switch between this, short segments of an uninteresting drawn out movie theater sim, and tediously slow pouring minigames. The concept of a sim with horror elements only works by getting you so invested in doing your job that you let your guard down for the horror. The main issue with this game is the complete lack of tension that give the kills a payoff, and it's clear the a lot of thought went into the character deaths. Without the tension, each kill ultimately falls flat on delivery. The game lacks focus. I'd strongly recommend the developer check out the director's commentary for Amnesia: The Dark Descent to learn how to build a good atmosphere for a horror game. Masterfully, Frictional Games can make the player apprehensive about walking down a dark hallway even though there is essentially no consequence for dying.

This game is well, it's not horrible its not great. You largely can't make any decisions or do anything of impact. There is like two puzzles. It's mostly just watching people get slaughtered with nothing you do mattering or even much of a building up before whoevers POV you're inhabiting dies . The villain design is actually pretty good its fairly eerie. But the achievements for this game suck, imagine the hardest achievement in this horror game is the horror of operating a snack counter for 50, 5 minute shifts its kind of fun at first but by the time you unlock everything you're already bored and then you have to do 30-35 more shifts after that.

I was initially drawn to this game after playing the Skin Stapler Demo so I figured I give it a shot since it seems to be similar as far as the gameplay and overall vibe. Let me tell you it did not disappoint. I wish the story was longer but I value quality over quantity which this game definitely met that criteria. The story was gross, gory and creepy which is exactly what I want in a horror game. I can tell it was at least loosely inspired by the Terrifier series which I found endearing. I really hope there's a sequel in the works because it deserves one. This game has definitely heightened my excitement to play the full release of the Skin Stapler! Also small spoiler but shoutout to the devs for making sure Whiskers survives :)

It's not an immersive sim because it is not structured like an immersive sim. It's not a survival horror because it lacks the gameplay elements required of a survival horror. Why is it allowed to have false marketing tags? Or has the definition of immersive sim and survival horror become so muddled that literally anything fits now? Anyway. The voice acting is awful. It's a boring linear busywork game. The horror is cringe. A lot of people have bad taste in games. Whodathunkit?

我觉得模拟经营里面的毛绒玩偶好可爱，做成周边好不好！ （被害者视角躺着被杀还是挺舒服的，我本来以为还要和小丑斗智斗勇，进行一番惊险晕3D的操作，只要按流程走就能乖乖被杀还可以拿成就真是太好了！）

After playing this game I must say the people who left reviews are more insane than the villain in the game! This game is so well put together and fun! The jumpscares are phenomenal, the plot and play style is purely amazing. This game has an amazing soundtrack and voice acting. I really love how the game seems very similar to a horror movie and it is one of the best games I’ve ever played

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Nice game but the jump scares were a lil lame and predictable and game felt long should've been shorter but it was nice hearing some voice acting