Take the role of Edward Ross and try to escape from the Anorland Castle while uncovering unsettling events on the way.
Best mod from this creator when compared to the overrated Anorlands. Good and scary atmosphere, partially great design. Most of the puzzles were pretty vague and extremely confusing (the rusty key in one of the shelves in laboratory took me years to find), and the oil amount was too little. So much potential which was wasted in two poor mods.
Congrats on releasing your first mod as a full conversion, rarely you even see one of those even from experienced modders for reasons unknown to me, as it gives much more editing freedom. However, that freedom was not used nearly to its full potential in this case..
First of all: the levels have generally great atmosphere. Clever use of bilboards, lights and fog areas, you never made anything too bright, staying true to its horror concept. Although quality seriously decreased towards the end (i can understand due to the length of the mod), accompanied by the new music it felt nice to explore and hide in. Some of them were tense and creepy too, the first chase scene was exceptional!
Sadly i cannot say the same for the puzzle system. Towards the end there was some variety to balance out the design quality decrease, but man i haven't seen this many key quests in one mod since like 2012. The stamina system was a good addition, i can't believe after implementing a system like that you didn't notice that even hammers/chemicals basically served as keys to unlock doors..
The story was vague and felt totally disconneted from what was happening. The levels had similar structure, find a few things (sometimes unnecessarily hidden), run/hide from the monster, repeat. Some of those monster encounters were actually well executed, but monsters got overused near the end where they became more of an annoyance than a threat, and made me rush and die a few times. The water level in the flooded map was too high for christ's sake, if it wasn't for the bugged AI, i would have died for sure! Death, as a mechanic removes half of the atmosphere too, as the music never resumes after that.
Resource management was a mixed bag, tinderboxes and health potions barely had any uses, every time that i actually died i was oneshot so i carried them all till the end. I barely had any oil and sanity potions at some points in the second half of the mod.
All in all, this was a nice first attempt, you spent a lot of time detailing, giving it a unique feel, but with the lack of given directions and small variety in gameplay (even key items barely gave any clue where to use them) and all those mentioned above, best i can give is 7.5 for the effort. Some of the later levels could have been cut easily as they didn't add anything to the mod, they just made it unnecessarily long and even somewhat repetitive. Good job though, and i wish you luck for any future projects, this was a decent start!
Great level design, lighting, puzzles and also pretty good story. Excellent mode.
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Super awesome!
generically scary