This isn’t a game where you have free control of the camera- Tormented Souls is set up using “screens” you walk through, and the camera is fixed, sometimes causing a disoriented feeling going from one screen to another. The camera placement works in tandem with the prerendered backgrounds that players will cross time and again to solve puzzles and complete the various objectives in your way. Trying to engage with every foe is a great way to meet the game over screen, so one of the best tips can be to only engage with combat on your terms. There were some enemies I just did my best not to engage with at all, like the guys with glowing eyes and an axe, and found that luring them toward a wall and running around them was often the best course of action (until the end of the game, anyway). There are several instances where the best course of action isn’t to engage with two or more enemies at once, but to merely kill the one directly in your way and move right to the next screen. Animated corpses crawling on the ground will require you stop, aim down, and shoot them, possibly even requiring that you walk up and club them with a crowbar until they stop moving. An example would be knowing that you need to run clockwise around a body on an operating table with a lighter in hand, but doing so to no affect because you forgot to turn the lights off, first.Ĭombat in Tormented Souls is very, very similar to classic Resident Evil games from the Playstation. Like classic survival horror, there’s an order of operations for everything and missing one poorly communicated step will result in the player getting stuck. Many puzzles have hints that can help you solve them, but it can still be a bit difficult to do some of the more esoteric puzzle solutions, at least until you familiarize yourself with Tormented Souls’ brand of puzzle solutions. The puzzles in Tormented Souls range from simplistic to layered and intricate, requiring the player do quite a number of steps beyond the usual explore > combat > puzzle > key loop. The game is relatively forgiving with tape reels, thankfully, because it’s pretty simple to reach the end of the game with four or five still in your inventory, but if you’re a busy gamer with a child, for example, you might need to consume more tape reels to save than most, which can feed into issues should the game crash. Like old Resident Evil games, the ability to save your progress is limited to the number of tape reels you can find throughout the mansion. There’s very little inventory management in Tormented Souls, a departure from the classics in this regard, though you’ll often refer to the items and resources screens to combine items or switch weapons. It cannot be understated how Tormented Souls feels like a late 90s, early 00s survival horror, and that was clearly the developer’s intent. The combat, while stiff and limited to those not experienced with the genre, hearkens back to a day of simpler control schemes where the clunkiness of the combat goes hand in hand with making enemies seem fearsome because do you really want to engage with a difficult foe when that could mean lost time? For those who never played that kind of survival horror game, or only played action-based survival horror games, then this can be a massive negative influence to your experience. The only way forward is to make her way through the mansion and defend herself from all variety of abominations.įor fans of classic survival horror, a la Playstation 1 or 2, then Tormented Souls is exactly what you want in a game. Accosted by an unknown assailant shortly after entering, Caroline is down 50% of her eyes and 100% of her depth perception. Caroline becomes plagued by headaches and nightmares after receiving a mysterious photograph in the mail, so she does what every sane person would do: Break into a haunted mansion. Who here hasn’t trespassed into someone’s mansion, get bonked on the back of the head, then wound up naked and intubated in a bathtub? Well, I know I’m not completely alone in my spring break experience because that’s precisely what happens to heroine Caroline in the beginning moments of Tormented Souls.
So, is Tormented Souls a game that’s going to torment you as you play, or does this game radiate enough charm to keep your interest until the end? Let’s find out. This is a game specifically meant for those who played the Resident Evil 2 Remake and decided they preferred the original PS1 game or Gamecube port, replete with puzzles, items to collect, and awkward combat controls you have to use to prevent eldritch horrors from giving you hugs. A direct homage to the Playstation 1 and 2 era of survival horror, Tormented Souls is a modern take on the old-school survival horror genre.
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