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Scorn - Reviews Thread
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yamaci17
Member
and the fact that they fight for their survival before that... makes it even more brutal and surreal.
It’s one of the most atmospheric games I’ve played all year, maybe in a few years. Gameplay is meh but the environments are amazing.
I truly felt bad making the first fetus into a flurry, and no game has that effect on me.
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Secret of Evolution
Banned
Environments 10/10
Puzzles 8/10
Combat 5/10
Good gamepass title. Not worth $40 on its own. Feels like the majority of the games budget was used to make stuff look pretty.
Puzzles 8/10
Combat 5/10
Good gamepass title. Not worth $40 on its own. Feels like the majority of the games budget was used to make stuff look pretty.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Y'all talking about combat as a negative, I ran away from 90% of the fights, the enemies are nice enough not to follow you outside of the immediate room in most of the cases lol
deriks
4-Time GIF/Meme God
Played for like an hour or so aaaaaaaaannnnnnnd
Some people said that the puzzles are kinda hard, and it's really not. I saw some guy saying that he made half an hour on the first big puzzle (the egg thing), and I'm judging his videogame skills with this.
Anyway, the art, landscape and the graphics overall are gorgeous. Ambient sound also is pretty nice... I was on the edge of the seat and my phone ring, so I was kinda spooked out. The problem starts with basically everything else. Level design is too much the same, so you get lost very easily - and I do not accept this as "part of the puzzle" thing. Also, too much of empty spaces for no reason. You don't get reward for exploring, so why having this? And while some puzzles are very smart, some are just a waste of time - pressing A at the right time is not a good puzzle, and having a lot of times is just lazy.
Not sure if I will play until the end. I can see this as an adventure game, not an fps. Dark Seed made first and made it good thou.
Some people said that the puzzles are kinda hard, and it's really not. I saw some guy saying that he made half an hour on the first big puzzle (the egg thing), and I'm judging his videogame skills with this.
Anyway, the art, landscape and the graphics overall are gorgeous. Ambient sound also is pretty nice... I was on the edge of the seat and my phone ring, so I was kinda spooked out. The problem starts with basically everything else. Level design is too much the same, so you get lost very easily - and I do not accept this as "part of the puzzle" thing. Also, too much of empty spaces for no reason. You don't get reward for exploring, so why having this? And while some puzzles are very smart, some are just a waste of time - pressing A at the right time is not a good puzzle, and having a lot of times is just lazy.
Not sure if I will play until the end. I can see this as an adventure game, not an fps. Dark Seed made first and made it good thou.
01011001
Banned
there is a reason why mainstream games these days like Uncharted or Horizon basically only implement fake puzzles that solve themselves either by being not even real puzzles or by the main character or a support character telling you exactly what to do
Rise of the Tomb Raider even went so far as to almost completely remove puzzles from the main "quest line" and making them all optional side stuff in order to not get into a situation where people might get stuck lol, someone getting stuck is the nightmare of modern AAA devs
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FluffShake
Member
Reinstalled it again after reading everyone reading everyone's praises of the final act and wow... I'm glad I did in the end. Simply breathtaking.
nkarafo
Member
I liked the puzzles. Even though it took me a while to figure out the first few ones. Much more satisfying when you do them this way. Also, looking around trying to figure out what you need to do is part of the experience for me and in a game like Scorn, where you are completely alone in a terrifying setting, it's essential even.
PCFanboy64
Member
I've given it about an hour and really want to like it. It isn't doing it for me. I don't really understand the hype on the environment. Sure, the art style is pretty cool but everything is so static it's...meh
Torrent of Pork
Banned
This is definitely going to be one of those games where for those few people who click with it, it clicks pretty damn hard. I'm loving it for what it is, but I'm glad it's as short as it is. I'm just glad it didn't go for the cheap shock value with no substance like Agony.
BusierDonkey
Member
Game is a 7/10. Super cool environments and atmosphere, super average gameplay.
ZehDon
Member
Played for about an hour last night. I'm enjoying it so far, but I can tell it's not the kind of game I can do in long sessions.
The atmosphere is really special, and the glue that holds it all together. Some games want to have a mature theme and presentation, which usually boils down to violence and profanity. Here, the mature theme and presentation is expressed with the environmental design in a way I haven't really experienced before. It's unique enough that I'll likely see it through to the end.
The atmosphere is really special, and the glue that holds it all together. Some games want to have a mature theme and presentation, which usually boils down to violence and profanity. Here, the mature theme and presentation is expressed with the environmental design in a way I haven't really experienced before. It's unique enough that I'll likely see it through to the end.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Seems like the perfect amount of length to spend for a game like this.
hangdang69
Member
Because it's forgettable. The environments look great, but the game is a bore. There also isn't really much variety in the environments either, so once the initial wow factor subsides, you are left with a pretty boring game
Buggy Loop
Member
Just finished the game. Wow that ending..
Solid 8/10 game. Any sub 5 scoring i would say they are out of their fucking mind.
I can't imagine this with VR mod
Solid 8/10 game. Any sub 5 scoring i would say they are out of their fucking mind.
I can't imagine this with VR mod
GenericUser
Member
This game will be a cult classic in 5 years.
Feel Like I'm On 42
Member
Naughty Dog games are super annoying with "Hint? Hint? You want a fucking HINT?" or an NPC "hey let's look OVER HERE Nate"
You're right about puzzles in AAA games
ByWatterson
Member
This is a very good game. Amazing level design that makes you feel you're leaving important details behind, but then gently leads you, in a linear way, where you need to go.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Finished the game yesterday and everything I've said about it up until now still stands. But....
As for how the game ends, I like everything about it cuz pretty much the whole last part of the game has very deep meaning and how the game ends makes perfect sense to me. Also, it's not a 5 hour long game, I've spent almost 9 to finish it and Idk why anyone would rush af playing this game, it meant to be played slowly, suck you into the world with it's atmosphere, art etc. etc.
If there's one thing I really don't like, it's really out of place and very junk part where you have to kill 2 organic cyborgs by running in circles 100% of time and dodging grenades - everything about this part is just wrong top to bottom (except the way you activate cyborgs by inserting huge jars into exoskeleton), as well as parts where you need to use the final weapon to blast you don't even know what for stuff to happen. I wish that instead all of this crap, you had to use these 2 cyborgs to solve puzzles.
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DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
The first flurry eyes, when you squish....its looking into my soul. Mental.It’s one of the most atmospheric games I’ve played all year, maybe in a few years. Gameplay is meh but the environments are amazing.
I truly felt bad making the first fetus into a flurry, and no game has that effect on me.
Such a strong ending act and totally makes up for that middling to bad combat in the middle section of the game. Luckily like @adamssaid, you can run passed most encounters and it's better for you both ammo and health wise.
Mephisto40
Member
It really does feel like this game was made with VR in mind
Fools idol
Banned
May pick this one up during the innevitable xmas sales.
baphomet
Member
How you've managed to double the amount of time it took me to finish this the first time I have no idea. That was looking at everything there was to look at, setting up screenshots for the best composition, and playing through at a leisurely pace.
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Its up their with the best walking sims
DenchDeckard
Moderated wildly
if this, tinykin,tunic, persona 5, dragon quest, ni no kuni, yakuza, halo, forza, doom, plagues tale...are typical gamepass games...then keep em coming.
Ill deffo play through this again at some point, it is like interactive art.
Ill deffo play through this again at some point, it is like interactive art.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Well, I had to replay a few parts of some levels cuz of the stupid save system + I didn't know about something that you can do in the game and how to do it (I haven't watched or read anything about the game outside of the very first trailer), plus I really took my time to beat the game. Idk what else to say.
Buggy Loop
Member
Btw, there’s a lot of content even in recent Xbox (1-2 years back) play through that was cut from final game, like entering a statue from the outside field, the bomb being used in act 3 and probably a lot more. Apparently from the art book, there’s 2 missing worlds.
nkarafo
Member
The level design is a bit weird or am i doing something wrong?
For instance, the very first room you start the game with has a door you can't open but the game locks you out of it pretty early on. I don't think there' a way to go back and use the door thing to open it. Or maybe you can open it from the other side? I'm not sure.
At one point there was also a nice looking room that looked like it's explorable but you couldn't access from your location and i don't remember ever going there.
Dunno, even though there's not much to explore in this game other then the main path and it always locks you out from earlier areas, it still gave me the sense i missed a lot of stuff. Kinda want to replay it just for that but i'm not sure if i'll waste my time.
For instance, the very first room you start the game with has a door you can't open but the game locks you out of it pretty early on. I don't think there' a way to go back and use the door thing to open it. Or maybe you can open it from the other side? I'm not sure.
At one point there was also a nice looking room that looked like it's explorable but you couldn't access from your location and i don't remember ever going there.
Dunno, even though there's not much to explore in this game other then the main path and it always locks you out from earlier areas, it still gave me the sense i missed a lot of stuff. Kinda want to replay it just for that but i'm not sure if i'll waste my time.
Buggy Loop
Member
Yea I have that feeling too, but I felt like when you change character, that we’re far off in the future and kind of don’t recognize the ruins of the level and go through these doors.. ? Not sure, still wrapping my head around this experience.
Fushitsusha
Banned
You do have to go through it.
, those were brutal times!
Mephisto40
Member
People realise that every single enemy encounter can just be ran past don't they? the enemies don't follow you past the room they spawn in, the only occasions you actually have to use the gun to avoid getting hit is when the tentacle things are blocking your path
Big Baller
Al Pachinko, Konami President
Simple, don't die.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
To be honest, they're not that bad.
Dying in combat naturally sets you a bit before that combat encounter, and in my experience you are check pointed immediately after doing each puzzle so there's never a case where you need to redo a puzzle again after dying.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
The only problem the games has imo is not the checkpoints, but the actual save system. Yesterday I did Act III in it's entirety without the game saving once or, at least, I couldn't see anything new in the "Load game" screen.
The combat might be slow and kinda jank, sure, but I think it's designed to be that way. It's no power fantasy, and it kinda feels like the combat you'll find in a survival horror game.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
there's no shame in youtubing a guide for that puzzle lol, for the first puzzle in the game it is devious
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The Fartist
Gold Member
If someone had told me that H.R. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński were brought on for SCORN's art direction during development, I would've believed them, If they were both alive, of course.
ÆMNE22A!C
NO PAIN TRANCE CONTINUE
How long did it take you?
ÆMNE22A!C
NO PAIN TRANCE CONTINUE
Lol. Sounds like me. To those who have played, is there a certain approach to the puzzles or... Like the post above I always miss shit in these type of games =)
AV
We ain't outta here in ten minutes, we won't need no rocket to fly through space
"Finished" tonight. That is to say, ran into two instances of the same bug in the final act and gave up and watched the ending on Youtube.
Did the boss fight and got a bug where every button except moved stopped working until I closed and restarted the game. Got it again 10 minutes later and bailed out. Far from the only bug I've had either, the game forgets my motion blur and vsync settings every time I load the game up (even though they look right in the menu) and also thinks I have an Xbox pad plugged in for some reason.
Inexcusably basic bugs, a mixed bag of puzzles, and dogshit, tacked-on combat that should never have been there in the first place unfortunately took the legs out from what could have been a real gem for me. I maintain that the artstyle and atmosphere is phenomenal but it's just not enough for me to recommend it. Any Giger or Giger-adjacent art fans should look at Scorn, if you can put up with a bad game to see some incredibly art, play it. Otherwise, Youtube it.
Such a shame. Second biggest disappointment after Tunic, which is still a top 3 or 4 for me this year, but it's another case of you were SO close.
Did the boss fight and got a bug where every button except moved stopped working until I closed and restarted the game. Got it again 10 minutes later and bailed out. Far from the only bug I've had either, the game forgets my motion blur and vsync settings every time I load the game up (even though they look right in the menu) and also thinks I have an Xbox pad plugged in for some reason.
Inexcusably basic bugs, a mixed bag of puzzles, and dogshit, tacked-on combat that should never have been there in the first place unfortunately took the legs out from what could have been a real gem for me. I maintain that the artstyle and atmosphere is phenomenal but it's just not enough for me to recommend it. Any Giger or Giger-adjacent art fans should look at Scorn, if you can put up with a bad game to see some incredibly art, play it. Otherwise, Youtube it.
Such a shame. Second biggest disappointment after Tunic, which is still a top 3 or 4 for me this year, but it's another case of you were SO close.
Orbital2060
Member
I would say the difficulty of the first puzzle is akin to something like a puzzle in Myst, where you need to acquaint yourself enough with the environment to discover something out of place. No hand holding, text, or arrows pointing in the right direction. Takes a bit of patience, and to enjoy being in the gameworld. Or dread it, depending on your sensibilities.