Perception

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If there’s something that fascinates me in short stories, it’s the way the character is guided into the twilight of memory. The beginning of the story is spontaneous, without distinguishing what the past was like. Although it doesn’t resort to amnesia but to the confrontation of a bitter memento, whose outcome it’s gotten from an out-of-place perspective. Cassandra goes to a manor and at the end she’s looking at it as a model, as an omniscient character she causes trepidation in me.
When I watched some gameplays, I paused to play on my own. The gameplay caught my attention, she’s a blind character. The story tells something like this: It's about Cassandra or Cassie. She visits the mansion located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, as an inexplicable voice and a vision of a tree are calling to her. Upon arrival, she unearths the past of the house, where a long time ago a woman accused of witchcraft used to live. After her death at the stake (or gallows), a curse falls there. Everyone who resides in the house dies tragically. So Cassie will do everything she can to get rid of the evil living in the mansion.
The story is interesting, I don't reject it. Each chapter narrates a different epoch —death and jinx— for every one occupant. It occasioned me feel like a journey back in time, the mansion transforms depending on its context of the past. The horror adventure is retrospective, where people, the echoes of ghosts, recount their tragic precedent. The chapters give a feeling of partaking diverse stories, but they’re always related to Susannah Martin's past. I liked idea of everything happening in the mansion but at different times. The memories in some objects and Cassie's brief soliloquy consent us to come into that dark world in its double meaning: the blindness of the protagonist and the curse.
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The game is a walking simulator. Although that’s one of its difficulties, because it can be transformed into the actions of seeking and hiding. This has double gameplay. If you want the narration, Cassie will talk more frequently. On the other hand, if you want gameplay, the sound of the enemy will be important. Although she hardly speaks except in narrative moments, so the game is set in the silence of darkness. Almost everything is partially dark.
Since the character is blind and therefore there’s an absence of colours and light, echolocation plays its important part. With the cane being hit against something, it allows you to glimpse the environments for a moment. The only bad thing from my point of view was the misinterpretation of the resonance of the objects. Hitting something against metal or glass will not be similar, in the game the opposite happens. However, although it’s narrative, the character automatically has an app on her mobile phone to scan some things and thus know what they are. As I said, they’re narrative, they’d have been better utilized and developed to provide an unique gameplay experience that expresses Cassie's perspective.
The app is interesting: scanner and help from the community. But everything was reserved at the narrative layer, a script that could be better. Interaction with objects reveals fragments of the story. It’s also possible to see where to go through the sixth sense, that is, the ability to highlight things. Though, when the difficulty is changed there’re spots where the player can hide from evil creatures (the Presence). She’ll be left in the dark; although there’re also other sounds produced by her footsteps, speakers playing or dripping water with which you can temporarily glimpse the surroundings.
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The game has a few colours, while it’ll always immerse you in darkness. It was a good idea, but the proposal, the gameplay and the thoughts created on what the inside of a blind person is like were needed to be further developed. Everything will become monotonous, without great details if you’re used to colours. If so, despite its noteworthy narrative, I don’t recommend it for everyone. This game requires patience, sympathetic and understanding.
Sighted everything in black and blue tones with the shapes of the objects being emphasized caused an impact of new experience on me just as the story accompanied it. Just as silence predominates on many occasions, sometimes you’ll hear choral pieces of music (or music performed on piano with a melancholic air). The style of the game mainly brings back memories of Amnesia. Due to the gameplay or the story, this game has an unconventional point of view with the way of holding your hands into the heart of the night.
Recommendation: 7/10

Steam User 3

Reviewed last year

⠊⠝ ⠞⠓⠑ ⠙⠁⠗⠅⠝⠑⠎⠎
If there’s something that fascinates me in short stories, it’s the way the character is guided into the twilight of memory. The beginning of the story is spontaneous, without distinguishing what the past was like. Although it doesn’t resort to amnesia but to the confrontation of a bitter memento, whose outcome it’s gotten from an out-of-place perspective. Cassandra goes to a manor and at the end she’s looking at it as a model, as an omniscient character she causes trepidation in me.
When I watched some gameplays, I paused to play on my own. The gameplay caught my attention, she’s a blind character. The story tells something like this: It's about Cassandra or Cassie. She visits the mansion located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, as an inexplicable voice and a vision of a tree are calling to her. Upon arrival, she unearths the past of the house, where a long time ago a woman accused of witchcraft used to live. After her death at the stake (or gallows), a curse falls there. Everyone who resides in the house dies tragically. So Cassie will do everything she can to get rid of the evil living in the mansion.
The story is interesting, I don't reject it. Each chapter narrates a different epoch —death and jinx— for every one occupant. It occasioned me feel like a journey back in time, the mansion transforms depending on its context of the past. The horror adventure is retrospective, where people, the echoes of ghosts, recount their tragic precedent. The chapters give a feeling of partaking diverse stories, but they’re always related to Susannah Martin's past. I liked idea of everything happening in the mansion but at different times. The memories in some objects and Cassie's brief soliloquy consent us to come into that dark world in its double meaning: the blindness of the protagonist and the curse.
⠎⠊⠛⠓⠞⠑⠙ ⠺⠊⠞⠓ ⠎⠕⠥⠝⠙⠎
The game is a walking simulator. Although that’s one of its difficulties, because it can be transformed into the actions of seeking and hiding. This has double gameplay. If you want the narration, Cassie will talk more frequently. On the other hand, if you want gameplay, the sound of the enemy will be important. Although she hardly speaks except in narrative moments, so the game is set in the silence of darkness. Almost everything is partially dark.
Since the character is blind and therefore there’s an absence of colours and light, echolocation plays its important part. With the cane being hit against something, it allows you to glimpse the environments for a moment. The only bad thing from my point of view was the misinterpretation of the resonance of the objects. Hitting something against metal or glass will not be similar, in the game the opposite happens. However, although it’s narrative, the character automatically has an app on her mobile phone to scan some things and thus know what they are. As I said, they’re narrative, they’d have been better utilized and developed to provide an unique gameplay experience that expresses Cassie's perspective.
The app is interesting: scanner and help from the community. But everything was reserved at the narrative layer, a script that could be better. Interaction with objects reveals fragments of the story. It’s also possible to see where to go through the sixth sense, that is, the ability to highlight things. Though, when the difficulty is changed there’re spots where the player can hide from evil creatures (the Presence). She’ll be left in the dark; although there’re also other sounds produced by her footsteps, speakers playing or dripping water with which you can temporarily glimpse the surroundings.
⠁⠍⠕⠝⠛ ⠛⠓⠕⠎⠞⠎
The game has a few colours, while it’ll always immerse you in darkness. It was a good idea, but the proposal, the gameplay and the thoughts created on what the inside of a blind person is like were needed to be further developed. Everything will become monotonous, without great details if you’re used to colours. If so, despite its noteworthy narrative, I don’t recommend it for everyone. This game requires patience, sympathetic and understanding.
Sighted everything in black and blue tones with the shapes of the objects being emphasized caused an impact of new experience on me just as the story accompanied it. Just as silence predominates on many occasions, sometimes you’ll hear choral pieces of music (or music performed on piano with a melancholic air). The style of the game mainly brings back memories of Amnesia. Due to the gameplay or the story, this game has an unconventional point of view with the way of holding your hands into the heart of the night.
Recommendation: 7/10
Steam User 2

Reviewed last year

Finally got around to experiencing this spooky adventure.
It had an interesting concept of of being in the shoes of a disabled character who is blind, really made it terrifying when you could only rely on noise.
The only negative was it wasn't without some glitches that hampered my experience a little bit at the time and had to either find workarounds or restart the game.
Aside from that, it had a good story and some parts really made me sweat with fear.
i give it a 8/10 which i think is generous considering the problems i had.

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