Nothing is as simple as it seems in this world.Įvery now and again I also gave in to my desire to exact vengeance. However, it wasn't until later that my seemingly "good" choices had some unexpected consequences. Do I help out a fellow imprisoned soul or leave him to his death? Given the dark nature of the game, I gladly picked the "good" choice nearly every time hoping to redeem myself in some way. At various points throughout the game, I was presented with a moral choice. One aspect of Tormentum that I really appreciated is that my choices mattered. I easily spent half an hour just marvelling at these paintings. There are easily 50 paintings on the wall, which serve as a not-too-subtle way to view more of the dev's art work. Later in the game, I arrived at a cathedral and was presented with the option to help out a blind artist restore his paintings of the nightmarish world. Death and punishment twist the landscape into hellish architectural designs. The whole world is saturated in pain and suffering, with seemingly impossible creatures etching out a miserable existence. While I was genuinely captivated in finding out what had landed me in this hellish landscape, it was the incredible art style that took my breath away. Rewiring a circuit box to program spikes to impale my captor was surprisingly enjoyable.
The majority of the puzzles - which all have a dark twist to them - revolve around the concept of manipulating objects to order them in the correct manner. The puzzles are relatively straightforward and don't require too much flexing of your brain - you can expect to finish the game in around three hours, which feels quite appropriate. The game plays out as a rather traditional point-and-click adventure, although there's certainly nothing natural about the environment you explore.
This isn't necessarily a negative of the game, but rather a warning to be well prepared about what lies ahead. Without spoiling too much, at one point a character makes some comments about suicide that are incredibly distasteful and will likely offend people touched by it in some way. But others may also find themselves recoiling in shock. As a Christian I found Tormentum to be particularly confronting and disagreeable given its spin on these issues. The art style and themes being dealt with - death, sin, punishment and atonement - are incredibly dark. In learning the truth, it becomes quickly apparent that Tormentum is certainly not a game for the fainthearted. Without any recollection of how he arrived there, the story gradually unfolds as our protagonist learns more about himself and what he's done to deserve such a terrible existence. The dreamlike and nightmarish landscape whips by below. Tormentum opens with our unarmed protagonist being held in a locked metal cage beneath a hellish flying machine. It has the feel of a dark and twisted version of Machinarium, Dark Souls and I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream. It is a completely twisted world, populated by things that should only inhabit our worst nightmares. In what can only be described as disturbingly brilliant, the world of Tormentum looks like it has been ripped straight out of the sketch book of Giger. A future that shows aliens and humans twisted together into a cold and biomechanical relationship is truly freaky stuff.
While I found the aliens to be sufficiently scary, it was the dark and creepy universe in which the movies take place - created from the mind of surrealist painter H.R.
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I remember watching the movie Aliens for the first time many years ago.
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