I finished Realms of the Haunting today, pretty cool game. A somewhat mindfucky "horror" shooter with inventory and puzzles. Reminded me a lot of Undying, albeit probably better if only because the ending wasn't so horribly rushed. The whole premise is VERY Clive Barker-ian, too, with shittons of religious imagery, lots of conflicted "factions" in the main plot, jumping around through dimensions, etc. One thing that kind of sucked, though, was that for a supposed horror game, there was no horror whatsoever in it, not even any jump scares. The very opening is a bit unnerving, but after that it only gets less and less gloomy, especially due to the fact that you find guns with endless ammo pretty soon and most of the different dimensions are just pretty gardens and chirping birds.
Cool game, tho, and fairly long, too. Also, them cheesy FMVs
There's no point of enduring this. It doesn't get better. This game is a really bad combination of the mechanics limitations of many RPG engines with limited RPG options of a tactical game. The worst of both worlds.
This. I soldiered on despite ignoring warnings from both Awor and DraQ, and the game is really somewhere between mediocre and plain bad. I still don't understand how, even in TB mode, it manages to be less fun and so much more boring than FO1 despite having full party control. I blame it mostly on encounter and location design, but whatever it is, it just makes the game tedious to go through. There are maybe a couple of misisons that are more interesting, but I don't even remember them, and that's not a good sign.
