Shawnesey O'Hern

Do you like doing chores? Yeah, me either.

Pure. Garbage. Darkness is your weakness in this game. After playing for an hour or so, this game plunges you into complete darkness. Then you get to stumble around in darkness, with no clear indication of where you're supposed to go even if you could see. Then monsters instantly appear and kill you (also instantly. You can't fight them). Deleted the game from my PS5 after 5 hours of profanity-laced stumbling in the dark. [Edit] I don't think I worded things strongly enough in my previous review. This game says it has puzzles in it. Well, I was certainly puzzled. While most games will insult your intelligence by having the puzzles be of the " hey. I just found some gears. I noticed the clock in the foyer had some gears missing" variety, VISAGE would never DREAM of condescending to you in that way. The puzzles are more like "hey. I found this freeze dried octopus tentacle. I noticed earlier that the glockenspiel in the foyer wasn't working. Maybe this would fix it." If you're Salvador Dali, you'll totally be able to make the logical jumps required to solve the puzzles in this game. The rest of us are in a lot of trouble. I mentioned that the game involved stumbling around in the dark, looking for where you're supposed to go. I didn't mention that where you're supposed to go is actually through transdimensional portals that appear in places you have already been, and there's no clear rhyme or reason to where they appear. Do you want to know what it's actually like to play this game? You are taken to a racetrack, and told you are going to run against Usain Bolt. Five seconds before start, you will be kicked in the crotch. If you don't win, they are going to shoot your entire family while you watch, just before torturing you to death. Oh yeah, almost forgot to mention... your side of the track is scattered with nails. You will be running barefoot. Remember... have fun! The game condescendingly tells you at the beginning that it is hard. Guys, Abe's Oddysee is hard. This "game" is designed by sadists who clearly hate the idea of the player having one moment of fun. Don't do it.