I wanted to love this game so much. H. H. Holmes is such a fantastic serial killer to incorporate into a immesive game. Unfortunately, it's not 5 minutes before that immersion is broken by horribly written dialogue attempting to be "old timey". If it was just the dialogue in the intro piece, I could forgive it, but then we're introduced to a group of some of the most unlikable people to exist. That's fine in a horror movie since it lets you enjoy the killer more, but playing a game of "pick the line that makes you cringe the least" or having the group split up over and over giving you no agency is not enjoyable.a
Of course, maybe the main story could redeam it and have an amazing killer, right? Wrong. This game was constantly glitching out. From cutscenes just stopping, QuickTime events working for one person but not my co-op partner, clipping objects, camera randomly zooming in so far you can't see, characters just turning invisible (even during their death scenes). It's just too much.
Then you have absolutely no closure from an unstoppable Jason wannabe.
The only real positives were the setup of the house, the saw-esc kills, and the fact that you can save the dog.
Then you have absolutely no closure from an unstoppable Jason wannabe.
The only real positives were the setup of the house, the saw-esc kills, and the fact that you can save the dog.