You are a investigative reporter. There is a castle nearby that nobody dares to investigate but you do. Along the way, you experience terrible horrors and seek the truth of what happened and what turned the castle into one huge death trap.
Very generic, I was initially going to give a lower rating, but the story did somewhat redeem itself near the end, with an interesting chase section and turn of events. But the beginning? Oh gods... so dull...
Corridor Simulator: The Custom Story is what this should be called as what you spend the vast majority of your time doing in this custom story is running down seemingly endless corridors and grabbing key items to progress to the next set of corridors. Map design is way too bland, in terms of reality, who the hell designed this castle?! Why is it just an empty set of corridors and rooms with an absolutely nonsensical layout?!
Unfortunately I don't have anything else positive to say about this custom story other than my initial point, a very dull custom story with not much going for it. It does actually have a story, which isn't bad, but the map design doesn't do it justice.
I enjoyed the two scares with the Grunt, and I liked the look of the corridor after the staircase-part where the player falls down. They were frightening to me, and I liked where you placed them, though I wish there was a chance to hide when the player encounters a Grunt behind a door, which starts chasing the player right away without warning. At least it was easy to run away from it. One thing, though... I have reached Alexander's portrait, but then nothing happens, and there's no way out. What do I do next? I'm stuck, and can't get out of the castle.
Out of curiosity, I see comments which mention a Brute, where is it? I saw no Brute in your story.
If this is your first story, I see that you have potential to do better. I don't think it was that bad, though I must be honest and say that the puzzles were too easy, and it could've been more scares, but you tried your best. I didn't get it how the explosive mixtures created themselves, though... I'm a new modder myself, working on a CS, and I also know how hard it is to create one. Add things to your maps, instead of leaving them so empty. Also, the tinderboxes were pretty useless, and there's no way out. Still, I give you a 7 for your work, since I enjoyed playing it until I reached the portrait.
Very bad.
I'm not exactly sure why this custom story was rated so low, it wasn't that bad. I have played better but I have also played worse. I gave it a 7/10 because of all the lower ratings. At least you tried.
Huge empty rooms and hallways. First monster encounter literally shoved in the player's face after you open the 2nd door. A couple of cheap jumpscares.. Really simple puzzles, there weren't any actual puzzles actually..Collect key > Open door, Collect ingredients > Mix them into an explosive, wait..they mixed themselves?? Pure magic! The second encounter was easy but I thought I should make it interesting, so I played around with the Grunt and finally, after 100m of chase(LOL) we came to a room, closed the door on him, he broke it, and started walking into a wall. Monster AI ftw(!). I just read the note, took the key, moved the bed to check if anything's under it, then left the room, completely undisturbed, I did all this while he was still in the same room as me, walking into a wall (rofl). Humongous Wine Cellar without any objects, well THAT was the pure definition of emptiness, it just couldn't be any emptier than that(!) Also in the Wine Cellar, at one point my character stood at one place, looking in one direction, I heard footsteps, so naturally, I was absolutely sure there will be a monster in the area...I said to myself ~Oh, finally, some action!.. but sadly, there was none at all.. After blowing up the rock barricade, I went through the next map...9 doors, one after another, I feel like you just wanted to give me a chance to practice how fast I can open & then close doors behind me. Was there supposed to be a chase at that location?.. Well nothing happened in my playthrough.. And the ending?.. after opening and closing all those doors.. I stared at Alexander's portrait. That's all. No credits. Did I miss something? 1/10 What a disappointment(!)
Positives:
- Scared me a few times
- You created a story line
Negatives:
- The most empty and bland story I've ever seen
- Low creativity
- Very simple quests
- Bugs
- Every map looks more or less the same
- How was I supposed to survive the brute part?
- The explosive mixture created itself? :/
- Poor ending
Conclusion:
You created a story line. It's poor, but it's something. Sadly, 95% of the story is nothing but empty, long corridors. To be honest, I could barley finish this story because I was so extremly bored.
- Poor level design
Work more on your levels! Don't make all the rooms so dam huge! I can split this up to 2-3 castles :/.
Add more items, more details, more supplies, more of everything. I saw a huge room with NOTHING in it except for a hole in the wall I was supposed to crawl into. Really?
- Boring and easy quests
Most of the quests are key quests, and the explosive mixture created itself. That was the lamest thing I've seen for a long time. I was 4 meters from the table and the ingredients mixed themselfs.
In short, there is no challange in this story at all except for the chasing parts. While talking about chase parts, how was I supposed to survive the brute? He came from one direction (see what I did there?) and it was the only way out of there. He killed me in one hit and I had no chance to escape.
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I did not like this story at all. I don't know how it could take you over a month to create this. I'm guessing you were learning while you were creating it? Otherwise wierd since all the maps are empty and looks almost the same. Almost like you copied the maps.
I can't give this higher than 2/10. You made me scared a few times, but I was so bored I basicly forced myself to keep playing it. Spend more time on your work next time.
2/10 - Very bad
**** poop
This is just freaking terrible...
HUGE maps with no rooms,only one.
The "main"entrance of the castle is a maze?then a huge useless room and another maze?...Jannete's bedroom....omg.. there was not even a bedroom in her bedroom...Every puzzle was taken fully by the original story..
terrible,just terrible.When i finished your cs i auto deleted cause it was so bad..
And the only reason i downloaded it is just because the "recommended list" was showing your mod....
1/10 - Terrible