Dead of Darkness

Another Resident Evil clone that thinks excessive backtracking and finding keys is what makes RE so good. All of the other negative reviews state a common problem, there's no pause in any of the menus' outside of the pause menu. This makes you take hits unnecessarily when you're trying to check your map, because each area has 10 different rooms per hallway, using a key to open a door, or even trying to reload your gun. Old Resident Evil games gave invincibility frames on picking up items, which is necessary to dodge / avoid hits. They also had a way into bait enemies to attacking you, if you were skilled enough, you could avoid the hit, and then run past them during their animation. This game has none of that, and the enemies gravitate towards your location as soon as you load into the next room. This is a very tedious game, and its so long too, I kept clicking my tongue and giving a frustrated sigh when I had to go into yet another giant mansion like area, full of annoying monsters, and rooms locked with different flavors of keys. The difficulty is all over the place on "moderate". You're either given far too much ammo, or not enough when the game spawns excessive amounts of enem…

Worth the price. I have always wanted to play a survival horror pixel games (just missing and RPG survival horror now), and lives up to it. There are some recurring themes from big sagas, but somehow manages to have something original and engaging. Sequel? I believe this game have everything to set up a new series, all my best wishes to the devs if that is what they are aiming for. Downsides: I would say are that a lot of the lore stays as a mystery and that's good but i do feel like the first two location of the game barely provides information about what is going on, those locations are not bad at all, it is used to set up the atmosphere but again I felt like the plot moves slow in comparison for whats to come later on. A gameplay downside? Hmm not really i think i only hated when sometimes i would aim at one direction but due to a small movement of the joystick it would shoot at a different direction.

its a nice game

This is a really good game. I find the horror element is pretty well done, it focuses mainly on atmospheric horror with a few jump scares here and there. The lore is very interesting. There are lots of areas in the game where your visibility is reduced significantly and get left to wonder the darkness which produce a very specific forms of terror (not recommended for peole with claustrophobia). There are also lots of contents as well, there are different areas that you can explore, or come back later to get more supplies, upgrades, etc. There are some little issues here and there, but I think this is more like a design choice. I hope the Dev gets these improved in future games. One is the inventory space is pretty small, and 1/3 of it is often used just to store key items. This creates an unnecessary back tracking where you keep going back and forth from your chest just to retrieve the items you need. I think it is better to either 1. Expand the inventory space out completely or 2. Keep the inventory space limited as is, but create a separate inventory to store only key items. Second I think is the difficulty setting. There is a big gap from Easy onward. In higher diffi…

Dead of Darkness is a solid survival horror title that captures the atmosphere, and gameplay loop of the classics in an art style that gives me 2D Zelda vibes. The story and characters are well written, barring some awkward dialogue that probably has more to do with English not being the dev's first language and less to do with the writing quality. Voice acting is mostly good, especially Miles' VA. My only problems with it are, I wish there were more weapons and the sanity mechanic was barely noticable.

ill write more later but wow this is fantastic