Siren: Blood Curse
- Thread starter KNiVES
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It doesn't have the same atmosphere as Silent Hill. Personally I've found that it largely fails to create any atmosphere at all a lot of the time, especially due to the level repetition.
Maybe I expected too much from this game, but I'm very close to the end now and feeling fairly unimpressed. It's decent, but not amazing by any means and the storyline feels so fragmented and unclear that you simply find yourself doing things because that's what the objectives list says, rather than because you understand the relevance of those actions to the story.
It's also terribly inconsistent at times; on some occasions it'll guide you by the hand via the objectives list and the map so you'll know exactly where to go and what to do, and other times it leaves you stranded. Annoyingly, it's often the times when you need no direction that it guides you anyway, and the times when you're struggling that it'll leave you to figure it out yourself. The checkpoint system is similarly inconsistent, in that it sometimes won't checkpoint you for a significant amount of the level.
The gameplay itself is decent, there are many different weapons but although some are stronger than others, there's nothing much to differentiate between them. Perhaps it's OTT, but I'd have expected large blade weapons to cause significant injury and loss of limbs at least occasionally, but it always ends the same way regardless of what you attack with.
The music and voice acting is decent, but I find that the music itself sometimes gets in the way of the creation of any atmosphere through the use of sound. Levels seem to often lack a lot of ambient noise that would really benefit the creation of a creepy and scary atmosphere.
I also can't help but think that the method of release has wasted an opportunity. When I heard it was an episodic game, I actually looked forward to the idea of having to wait for each new bit to play more of the story and advance further. Instead, they've completely ignored that aspect (despite giving each episode a "Previously" and "Next time" bit at the beginning and end respectively) and released it in one awkward lump. Really don't understand the logic behind that.