SIGNALIS

I love the horror gameplay and piecing together the story while also filling up the rest with my own theories. I still have my mind stuck just thinking about it, getting depressed about it as well. Absolutely peak. Remember Our Promise.

Remember our promise

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Wow, this game is... special. I somehow struggle writing a review for this. Not because it was bad, but because it feels so much more than the "usual genres". If anything you might describe it as if Blade Runner and Neon Genesys Evangelion decided to make a computer game that follows the Silent Hill / Resident Evil gameplay. However it is far more than a survival game. In fact, it even changes the genre over the course of the game - and it honors this by giving you a different ending. But don't get fooled. Just because it has a underlying philosophical context that is clearly inspired by Robert Chambers "King in Yellow", this is no boring walking simulator. In typical "Resident Evil" style you walk around, even get weapons, solve puzzles, collect keys and read mails and articles. Some of the puzzles - as always in these games - don't really make much sense, but that is normal and in that case never felt too distracting. Especially since the game has a metaphysical overlay that reminded me on the old "Sanitarium" game (though the later one was just an adventure). The art style is pixel art but nicely made and decorated with short animations in between that give it a nice Anime-Style. The world however is oddly enough a futuristic-but-cold-war East-German (GDR) style space adventure. Damn, even the flag is still the DDR-style. But don't get fooled, it all adds up to the society shown in it. And since this game is (obviously) made by a German developer team, you might want to play it in German anyway (if you understand it). Otherwise the whole thing with the bird names only makes half as much sense. People praise the multiple endings that reward a different (e.g. pacifistic) play style. I personally don't see this as highly motivating though and you can read/watch the endings on youtube anyway. To me this is a play-once game but I might be different in that regard. So... you see, I struggle describing the game. I guess, you just have to give it a try. At around 9-10 hours of gameplay (depending on your speed of solving mysteries) it was really worth the time.

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