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Grim Part One

Game review may contain spoilers

I didn't explore outside the house, so keep that in mind.

Audio: mostly awful. Game starts with a repetitive beat, but not like a heartbeat, that soon becomes incredibly annoying. Much of the ambient noise has obvious and jarring loops. The voices in the jail room were cool though.

Graphics: mostly decent, on par or above typical Unity titles. Only problem is you will see SO many repeated assets that it becomes boring. I'm talking about resized boxes and the weird arch rocks in the cave. Also, some graphics don't make sense. For example, the elevator in the cave just looks like a closet, and you have no idea what it is until you step in. Lots of assets don't really mesh together and you can see where things stick out, like rocks jutting unnaturally out of a rock wall. I also had some issues with huge framerate drops when I was at the waterfall, but my computer is old and dying so I can't say for sure that's the game's fault.

Aesthetics: font of the papers was awful, incredibly font-like and completely removes me from the game - especially the skeleton's note that says "there's someone here ri- oh no ahhhhhh". Who would have time to write oh no ahhhh when they're being attacked? Whatever attacked him was gentle enough to let him finish writing before it killed him? The flashlight is almost entirely useless, as most locations are very well lit. It only lights up certain corridors in the cave, which, trust me, you don't want to see anyway (because they're boringly designed, not scary). "Level" design was bland, just corridors. I was very impressed with the opening credits though.

Plot: nearly nonexistent. I am confused if I got to the end, but I don't want to play this again; I ran into a wall at the end of a corridor and got a black screen that only said "main menu" and "quit". Very anti-climactic, disorienting, and completely ruined any tension. I don't know if I "died" in the game or if that was the end. The few notes start to set something up, but never fulfill