![]() The menu system is derived from Resident Evil, as well, but has been updated to include a touch-interface akin to point-and-click games. A crowbar can also be used for self defense when low on ammo. She’s initially provided a nail gun while pieces of other weapons are available later on. This allows Caroline to put down her lighter and actually use a weapon to defend herself against the monsters. Most of the hospital is run by generators that need to be powered on. Taking from the Amnesia franchise, if Caroline is exposed to the dark for too long, the shadows will take her and provide instant death. ![]() Winterlake Hospital offers tight corridors with a combination of light and dark areas. A puzzle is immediately required to try to get out of the room. Caroline wakes up naked in a bathtub and is missing her right eye. Unfortunately, there are leftover monsters that focus more on the Silent Hill design of horror rather than having zombies. Caroline has a vision and decides to head to Winterlake Hospital, which has been abandoned for some time. You play as a woman named Caroline that’s mailed a photograph of two girls. The setting and plot of Tormented Souls also features a combination of both Resident Evil and Silent Hill. ![]() While both of those series have evolved in different directions (and Silent Hill being flat out absent), Tormented Souls is full of tropes that comes from both titles that blend together seamlessly. Tormented Souls takes cues from the likes of the original Resident Evil trilogy and Silent Hill. From the initial load you’re greeted with a familiar warning. Thanks in conjunction with PQube, Abstract Digital Works and Dual Effect, Tormented Souls is a traditional survival horror game that features modern visuals. Those were the days, and the newly-released Tormented Souls looks to bring all of that back with ridiculous puzzles to boot. Games that keep you on the edge all times while entrenching you into their eerie world with atmospheric visuals and audio. A game that makes survival difficult by limiting your means of defense, using fixed camera angles to mimic a movie, and literally pressing forward on a controller to go forward. It also has a short cooldown after using it where you can’t do it again, so you can’t do anything crazy like double your invulnerability window.Imagine, if you will, a time when survival horror games were meant to be an interactive movie. You do have to time things well, though, so don’t think you’ll save yourself by trying to spam it. If an enemy is about to attack, dodge and you’ll likely be able to avoid taking damage at all. ![]() This doesn’t just give her i-frames, but she basically becomes fully invincible as long as the animation is going. The dodge has i-framesĬaroline can do a backward dodge if you press the square/X button while aiming. But it can also be pretty frustrating at the same time. This game may seem intimidating at first blush, but it’s more lenient than you might imagine. How many supplies are there? How careful should I be? How often do I need to save? Can I screw myself over, requiring a restart? I’m going to break down everything I think a new Tormented Souls player should be aware of before starting their game with these beginner tips. Whenever you’re doing your first run of a survival horror game, there are certain unknowns that will temper your playstyle. ![]()
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