"Agony" comes out tomorrow, and....

[Mondy]

Good lord it looks bad. Bear in mind the video is the first 2 hours so Spoiler alert.

You can really tell this was kickstarted by the voice acting most of all. It's really bad, but the biggest thing seems to be the gameplay. Just walking through narrow corridors lighting obstructions on fire, solving rudimentary puzzles and reading really poorly written notes.

I guess at 30 dollars you can't complain too much but boy, I had high hopes for this one and it doesn't seem to have ended well.

 

[Pottuvoi]

Still no flying owl and piano soundtrack.

 

[DukeBobby]

Tomorrow? I thought this was still ages away for some reason.

 

[Loggjaw]

I was gonna get this for my birthday but if it's that bad I will just wait till it's like 10 dollars.

 

[MMarston]

This looks like a 2004 game that's 14 years too late to the party.

 

[Khezu]

Oh is this demon tits the video game?

I might watch it later.

So gameplay wise it's more like Gone Home then something more involved?

 

[Maxime]

Gamekult (French outlet) is currently reviewing it and:

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"While waiting the full review, here are three screenshots perfectly summing up my time with this little gem."​

Plus in other tweets:

- It's woefully bad (as far as he played), don't bother even if discounted.
- It is "between a prototype made by students and a mod for Half Life 2", nothing holds up beside a few moments thanks to the art direction (though the game seems poorly optimized and ugly if not on Ultra).

So yeah... :\

 

[Deleted member 3897]

That video killed my excitement for the game. Damn. The trailers made it look really insane and "spicy". The gameplay in OP looked just boring.

 

[CannonFodder52]

Oh wow, I had no idea this was coming out so soon.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Still no flying owl and piano soundtrack.

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I know, right. Every single time.

 

[Jonnykong]

That is a very intense soundtrack.

 

[Chumley]

Not even remotely surprised this is garbage. No marketing whatsoever.

 

[Jackpot]

You can really tell this was kickstarted by the voice acting most of all. It's really bad, but the biggest thing seems to be the gameplay. Just walking through narrow corridors lighting obstructions on fire, solving rudimentary puzzles and reading really poorly written notes.

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Pretty much what I expected. Everyone kept going on about the art style but nobody seemed to be even mentioning the actual gameplay.

 

[Deleted member 41931]

Damn, I was planning on buying it tomorrow. It looked so cool. :(

 

[Loggjaw]

So my wife ordered it for me, and I ran in and just had her cancel it lol.

 

[Mars People]

Plus the developers are going back on their promise to release an uncensored patch for the PC.

Fuck it.

 

[AlexFlame116]

I was going to cancel my order way before this, but then I saw that Amazon had shipped it already but had never sent the notification....

 

[Patazord]

Plus the developers are going back on their promise to release an uncensored patch for the PC.

Fuck it.

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what ? they censored it ????

 

[Plumpbiscuit]

Apparently there's going to be no uncensored patch because they had been threatened with a studio shutdown if they would publish it. My guess is investors don't want their names attached to the game of this nature and threatened some lawsuits.

Not only that, yeah, the game looks downgraded to fuck, but the Agony mode sounds kinda interesting...?

 

[Lt.Chips]

Such a stark contrast against the previous trailers and screenshots. Watching the walkthrough video you can see it's really bad. Man.

 

[Mars People]

what ? they censored it ????

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Yeah all versions are censored. To what extent is mostly unknown.
The developers said they would release a patch for the PC version to restore censored content. But now they are saying they wont for reasons.

To hell with it. Game looks crap anyway.

 

[Napalmjam]

I fell for trailers and bought it really struggling to get past the first mission its horrible :(

 

[Chance Hale]

Isn't that as of yet an unverified discord person that said they won't release a patch?

Video looks super washed out, can only hope the gamma is off in the video or something.

 

[Plumpbiscuit]

Yeah all versions are censored. To what extent is mostly unknown.

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According to the devs, censored content includes a few seconds cut from both endings and minor graphical changes in-game.

To hell with it. Game looks crap anyway.

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That pun.

 

[BeeDog]

Always found the game to look like shit, so I'm not surprised. Still interested in reading the reactions though; sort of like looking at a car crash.

 

[ILikeFeet]

damn, I always felt the game wasn't going to be great, but I hoped it would have made it through in the end.

 

[Mars People]

Lets hope Scorn fares better.

 

[Izanagi89]

Lets hope Scorn fares better.

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I believe in the tapestries.

 

[Manu]

Lets hope Scorn fares better.

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That's Beksinski as fuck. I approve.

 

[Adam802]

Guess i'll wait for 'Scorn'.

 

[Kinthey]

The level design looks so confusing to me

Not even remotely surprised this is garbage. No marketing whatsoever.

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Indie games rarely have much marketing

 

[SmokingBun]

Here, I was expecting Amnesia IN HELL!!! but then I get... whatever this is....

 

[Crawling Mushroom]

censorship is bullshit

and the graphics i'm not that bothered with but if this is just basically a walking simulator I'm out

to think i had almost ordered this last week

 

[Praxis]

Noooo!

This is that game that was set in hell with babies getting hit by rocks? I was looking forward to it.

 

[Deleted member 15428]

I don't get the appeal of this game at all.

 

[prudis]

just FYI about the video .. this is what the uploader says

It's blurry because I added blur to avoid community strikes over showing flopping dicks and vaginas.

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You can really tell this was kickstarted by the voice acting most of all. It's really bad, but the biggest thing seems to be the gameplay. Just walking through narrow corridors lighting obstructions on fire, solving rudimentary puzzles and reading really poorly written notes. .

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iirc it was always supposed to br walaking sim-ish

 

[Strat]

This is that game that was set in hell with babies getting hit by rocks? I was looking forward to it.

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[Imitation Of Life]

Too edgy for me. I'll watch it on YouTube.

 

[NoReasonReally]

Aw, the game sounded so interesting =(
Really sad that it's bad.

 

[Calderc]

Keep getting this confused with Scorn. Whatever happened to that?

 

[Phoenix RISING]

I don't get the appeal of this game at all.

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Yeah, taking a tour of hell is indeed...alienating.

 

[Aaron D.]

I couldn't get past 10 mins in the vid.

Yaaaawn.

 

[ReginaldXIV]

If you're going to make a literal walking sim in hell, make the level design interesting. It looks like a Quake 1 modder went to town on some red and purple hallways that go in random directions.

 

[Easy_D]

I had a fear it was gonna end up like this after reading about the random permadeath survival mode. Shame because artwise it looks amazing

 

[cosmicblizzard]

What the hell did they have to censor if they were getting threatened with a studio shutdown? This is only a gore game, right?

 

[Jawbreaker]

Eek. That looks dreadful, and not in the way they intended.

 

[boontobias]

Censored? FoH

 

[Kilgore]

I don't see what's so horrible about this game tbh. I always expected a walking simulator with some survival ingredients and some puzzles. It looks good.

 

[Drencrom]

What happened? The game supposedly looked like this before.

 

[Kyle Cross]

Wait, they're not releasing the uncensor patch because of threats of being shutdown? It looks like this game is going to bomb critically and commercially so there's a good chance of that happening regardless, they should at least honor their word.