Tormentum: Dark Sorrow Review
By raising $11,000 on Indiegogo, Tormentum: Dark Sorrow proves that point and click adventure games still have an audience. And at first glance, it's easy to see why: not only did OhNoo Studio create a hellishly beautiful game, they lowered the puzzle difficulty so as to appeal to a larger audience.
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| This puzzle is actually just glorified matching. |
Speaking of puzzles, let's talk about game design. In Tormentum, players do not control their avatar directly; instead, they click left, right, up or down in order to progress through a series of moderately interactive screens. As to the puzzles themselves, they appear in two forms. The first requires players search for a particular object, such as a bone to appease a hungry animal or a key to unlock a prison cell. Secondly, Tormentum is filled with mini-games. These mini games often possess puzzle elements—for example, adjusting a set of gears to open a door—but not always.
Experienced point and click adventure fans may have noticed that I didn't mention item combinations. That's because there aren't any. OhNoo Studio ditches item combinations in order to lower their game's difficulty while providing a minimalistic inventory system. Does this decision pay off? In the end, I have to say no. The puzzle design in Tormentum never strays too far from easy, and genre veterans will breeze through this game.
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| I know everything is burning, but I'm more concerned about the dude on the piano. |
That said, easy puzzles shouldn't distract from the game's biggest triumph: tone. All of the art in Tormentum is hand-drawn and disturbingly ghoulish, with many monsters seemingly torn from the pages of a H.P. Lovecraft novel. The world alternates between horrible, bleak, and ravaged. No one finds goodness in Tormentum, a sentiment echoed by the game's ominous and occasionally plaintive soundtrack.
With decent gameplay and strong art, I'd consider recommending Tormentum were it not for the game's terrible story. OhNoo Studio bundles two video game clichés with a vague plot and obvious morality system. Amnesiac protagonist? Check. Absolving murderers good and killing innocents bad? Check. The nail in the coffin is the game's English translation: though Tormentum is more or less devoid of blatant errors, several awkward phrases took me out of the story.
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| From a grammatical standpoint, it's fine. But seriously, who talks like this? |
When I think of Tormentum, I think of missed opportunity. What if this game had put a price on being good, encouraging the player to make the evil choice instead? What if the developers had fleshed out the plot? While Tormentum: Dark Sorrow could have left me contemplating life, OhNoo Studio settled for style over substance. This point and click adventure will have its fans, but don't count me among them.
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-Clichéd story
-Very easy
-Uninteresting morality system
-Very easy
-Uninteresting morality system
Full disclosure: I received a free copy of this game from the developer.
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