Saw: The Game
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If it's Halloween, it must be (time to talk shit about) Saw. 
Honestly tho, that does look like a fun rental or maybe a good demo for a bored night.
Honestly tho, that does look like a fun rental or maybe a good demo for a bored night.
I won't lie, this game looks like it will be...not so great.
Seeing as how almost every trap will be a 1-hit kill I can see most rooms becoming a case of 'save game, run blindly into room and note down location of trap that kills you, load game, enter again armed with this knowledge and harmlessly bypass trap' (what myself and a friend call 'in-game precognition', that being where the player knows everything about the situation because they've been able to do it again and again unlike their character).
While a game consisting of avoiding mutilation from instant-kill death traps is very fitting when we remember it's SAW it also has a problem of possibly being a very irritating game because something like this could very easily become a war of attrition or a case of trial and error. There won't be as much thought or cunning as the developers would like to think because most challanges could be completed using the tried and tested 'throw enough mud at a wall' approach.
Outside of that it looks like it'll also be a parade of gore/violence and shocking images and moments. I'm normally fine with that (hell, I enjoyed Manhunt) but there's a fine line between a game that uses these things effectively (such as Condemned) and a game that will throw them in for the sake of it (which is what this looks like it will be).
Seeing as how almost every trap will be a 1-hit kill I can see most rooms becoming a case of 'save game, run blindly into room and note down location of trap that kills you, load game, enter again armed with this knowledge and harmlessly bypass trap' (what myself and a friend call 'in-game precognition', that being where the player knows everything about the situation because they've been able to do it again and again unlike their character).
While a game consisting of avoiding mutilation from instant-kill death traps is very fitting when we remember it's SAW it also has a problem of possibly being a very irritating game because something like this could very easily become a war of attrition or a case of trial and error. There won't be as much thought or cunning as the developers would like to think because most challanges could be completed using the tried and tested 'throw enough mud at a wall' approach.
Outside of that it looks like it'll also be a parade of gore/violence and shocking images and moments. I'm normally fine with that (hell, I enjoyed Manhunt) but there's a fine line between a game that uses these things effectively (such as Condemned) and a game that will throw them in for the sake of it (which is what this looks like it will be).
I lost interest in the Saw series ages ago, so that kinda puts me off the game. That said, I will say that I'm interested to see how they are going pull the game off, so it might warrant a rental, nothing more though.
This is looking like one of those games where there is a significant level of skeptisism going in because it is (a) a movie tie-in game and (b) because it looks like a generic horror game.
I will still probably rent this anyways.
I will still probably rent this anyways.
I suppose many people here fail to see the Psychology in Saw. I put the film series up alongside Silence of the Lambs and not down with Hostel and other torture films.
OT: The game looks interesting and could spark a bit of a revival in the survival horror genre. This is what the old Resident Evil games were good at and they seemed to stray from that formula somewhat.
However, that being said, there's not enough replayability here to be a buy, it's only a rental. I've also read in a review that many puzzles get repeated after a bit.
OT: The game looks interesting and could spark a bit of a revival in the survival horror genre. This is what the old Resident Evil games were good at and they seemed to stray from that formula somewhat.
However, that being said, there's not enough replayability here to be a buy, it's only a rental. I've also read in a review that many puzzles get repeated after a bit.
As long as there's little quick-time events, trial-and-error, and it's on the DS, hell freaking yes.
I think what the "think of the children types" got all uppitty about madworld because it was on the wii and how dare they make a violent game on a console that they viewed as marketed toward their kids. I also think that it may be because saw movies are obviosly targeted towards an adult audience to the parents would already know that it isnt for their kids.Yokai said:
Ok there is 1 quick time puzzle (and by now everyone has seen it). There is a short quicktime event when you counter or curbstomp but those are just a single button press. The rest of the puzzles range from solve it at your leisure to OMG YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS LEFT which can be intense at times. None of which are QTEs. Unfortunately the puzzles other than the "boss puzzles" repeat themselves much to frequently being there is only 3 variations of them (and the stupid grab shit out of dangerous shit which is hardly a puzzle).smilely47 said: