This is the Revisited version of my mod Madhouse 1 - The Legend of Osterseestein.
A shallow remaster of an otherwise good mod. Its only goal was to remove the signs of cooperation with a person you're no longer on good terms with.
Removing hidden notes instead of rewriting them was a questionable choice, now there's less stuff to collect, and the story of the mod isn't so detailed, anymore. The easter egg was a complete joke, i'm taking at least half a point for how pointless it felt, and served no other purpose than to put shame on a specific person from the community. Serious quality mods like this should not be used to such an extent.
The voice acting that was replaced is even worse quality then i remember the original one being. Also, looking for your DEAD wife? Man-things? The original madhouse has some problemous story parts sure, but at least it was consistent. The multiple typos and weird sentences do not help with the case, some of the storyline was noticeably cut.
Things that did not change at all but should have:
- Bad voice acting for everyone except protagonist
- Some voice lines do not make any sense or unnecessary
- Large amount of resources with few ways to use them
- Too many key puzzles and barely anything else
- Still one-shotting monsters making even laudanums pointless.
With fast paced self healing included as well is a huge letdown.
Madhouse is still a decent and visually stunning mod (now with even minor upgrades) with a few decent hidden places, but it falls short in almost everything else. In its current state almost being "demaster" i have to lower my previous rating, since the core problems are now more apparent than ever, and i was looking for something better judging by the title. I'm looking forward to the renewal of the following chapters that i think had better replayability overall, but i really hope you'll consider making it an actual remaster instead of what i've seen here.
It's a good mod worth playing but its sequels have raised the bar so much that the first one doesn't feel so good anymore.
I'm glad the lantern was finally fixed, that was something I hated with passion before.
The original Madhouse was my really favorite mod. However this is no longer Madhouse as we know it. Texts are amended, abbreviated, some are completely removed. The mod as a whole thus loses its value. The whole community knows that the author did this intentionally due to problematic personal relationships with the co-creator of the mod, who is author of the storyline. The shameful Easter Egg is clear proof of that. This conflict resulted in the destruction of this mod, as well as the destruction of the work of 11 translators. Therefore, this "demake" cannot be evaluated positively and should never have been created.