▪ MUSIC: Exceptional soundtrack with over 40 tracks. ▪ STORY: A dark adventure between dream and reality. ▪ PUZZLES: During your journey you will come against 24 varied logical puzzles and minigames. The game also features over a hundred additional screens as well as dozens of paintings created by the mad painter residing in the cathedral You'll meet characters with unique personalities who will help you - or try to prevent you from - reaching your goal. ▪ THE GAME WORLD: 3 realms, differing in architecture and creatures inhabiting them. Thus begins the surreal story bordering somewhere between dream and reality. Those are, however, the least of his problems as the airship descends its flight towards a huge, gloomy castle which soon becomes his prison. The only vague memory he can summon in his mind is that of a sculpture atop a hill, depicting human hands reaching towards the sky. It becomes clear he is its passenger against his will and the machine's destination is unknown. The story begins as the protagonist wakes up locked in a metal cage hanging below a large flying machine. This unique mixture gave life to a bleak and depressing world. The game's final look and feel was also strongly influenced by the universes of games such as Demon's Souls or Dark Seed. The dreamlike, nightmarish atmosphere of the game was inspired by the works of painters H.R. Wandering through strange lands, he struggles to discover the truth about the world around him, as well as about himself. He doesn't remember his name nor where he comes from. Giger and Zdzisław Beksiński.Ī nameless hero finds himself in a place between fantasy and nightmare. The main focus is on your cloaked hero and what he must go through to find the place in his dreams.Tormentum is a dark point & click game.
There is a deep and rich past to the place your Hero finds himself, but you only get small pieces of it through scraps of paper found laying around, and it seems just as interesting at the characters who live there.
#TORMENTUM DARK SORROW OBSEDRVATORY ENTRANCE PUZZLE FULL#
Everyone feels as if they had a full background to them, but you're only getting a small taste of their lives. This world is filled with interesting characters, both in design and personality. you have to use your logic or the careful hints around the place to figure them out. Besides the moral choices there are some other puzzles to be seen, like placing the gears in the right spot to get the machine going, or sliding blocks around to complete a picture. Still, it's nice to see the choice is given to you, since there are other points within the game where you'll wish you could have been part of the decision making. In most cases, you'll only pick the wrong one if you accidentally misread the symbols. There are quite a few moral decisions to make in this game, but only one or two come with moral ambiguity.
Granted all the artwork is morbid and gives you a shiver in your spine, but an enjoyable kind of shiver. Tormentum: Dark Sorrows will feel like at times it was just made to show off their great talent in the art department and honestly they do have great talent so you'll find yourself not minding one bit. This makes gameplay simple so you can really just enjoy the story, the art, and the amazing music, especially the track that plays during credits. In order to use items you must click on your pack, click on the object to select and then click on what you use to use it on or give it to. Other wise you'll just get a description. If you can pick it up then it will be done so when you click on it. If you can use it or pick it up, your cursor will change into a skeleton hand. Since in this game you don't move freely around the screen, just click on the spots you're interested in. All places you can go are marked with a white simplistic arrow that fades in and out. The only side-effect from this is it can be hard to see the exits on the screen. Even in the background there is something there that makes you feel unsettled.
While nothing in the content really makes it a horror title, there is some very disturbing imagery. The artwork is what really sells this game.
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