One of my favourite aspects of old school survival horror is actually how some games handled saving. I did have a couple of instances where auto aim just refused to work, by the way, making for a frustrating battle that had me take more damage than I needed. Ammo is well spread out, so there’s that constant fear you will run out as well. It very much plays like the Resident Evil remake in this regard, with auto-aiming towards enemies and being stuck into a specific spot while aiming. Very early on you will get a nailgun and that will be your main weapon for much of the game. There’s a good balance of puzzles here and they aren’t so challenging to keep you stuck for a long time.Ĭombat, however, is a little bit more basic. It often makes you question who the hell designed this place.
Most of the time the puzzles in Tormented Souls require you to use certain objects in the environment or find specific items, ranging from simple things, like finding a fuse to open a door, to more complex and nonsensical puzzles where you need to knock on a door in the rhythm of a heartbeat (which is one of the harsher ones). This is something that modern Resident Evil has struggled with, especially in Resident Evil 7 and Resident Evil 3 Remake, where the puzzle solutions are often blatantly obvious. The puzzles in Tormented Souls are wonderfully designed, being just vague enough to feel like the game’s not holding your hand, but not enough to the point of making you feel lost for extended periods of time. It’s an incredibly well designed environment that loops around itself as you open up shortcuts and the lack of direction is welcome, letting players figure things out. Occasionally you will meet another character who will tell you where you need to be, but that’s only a part of it and mostly acts as a reminder if you’ve forgotten based off other clues. Even leaving the first room isn’t as simple as opening a door, introducing you to the game’s puzzle aspects quickly. There’s very little direction here, as you need to figure where you need to go by yourself. Tormented Souls drops you straight into the tick of it, with you waking up in a hospital and immediately looking around. It’s used to great effect here, and very rarely becomes a nuisance, except for those instance where enemies are just off camera or when it disorientates you when trying to run away. This creates some wonderfully tense moments as the camera rotates as you go down a long dark hallway with nothing but your lighter.
Often used fixed angles to add tension to the scene and combining it with dynamic moving camera’s the will follow the character around the room. Much like this year’s The Medium, Tormented Souls makes use of a dynamic camera system, evoking the classic horror of the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 era. It’s a very standard horror story for the most part, but it does take some surprising turns that make its overall world building a little bit more interesting. She must uncover the truth of the disappearance whilst surviving the horrors of this wicked hospital. Such investigation leads her to Winterlake Hospital, where she is eventually captured, awakening in a bathroom attached to medical equipment. You play as a woman named Caroline, who is investigating the disappearance of twin girls.
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