This is a “mild-medium strength” horror game that is just fun and relaxing in the way that an enjoyably corny “doesn’t take itself entirely seriously” low-budget horror movie is. The game isn’t exactly “terrifying”, but there’s the familiar survival horror type of suspense and even a few mild-moderate “gross out” moments ( such as a grotesque “Jabba The Hutt”-style mini-boss who shows up about three times). Lovecraft-esque stuff instead of sci-fi zombie viruses.Īnd a healthy serving of David Cronenburg-esque body horror too □ Like “Resident Evil”, but with plants, spores and vaguely H.P. Even though I missed most of the story ( and comedic moments) due to the language barrier, it seems to be a fairly standard “evil experiments” kind of story. It’s the videogame equivalent of one of those hilarious Hollywood teen horror movies from the late 1990s/early 2000s. In terms of the game’s horror elements, they consist of a mixture of suspense, monster horror, body horror, gory horror, tragic horror and scientific horror. Still, I really miss the days when random mid-budget classic-style survival horror games were a common sight on major consoles- so this game automatically receives a little bit of an upgrade in my books for allowing me to re-live this amazing part of gaming history □ It’s just sort of somewhere in the middle. Not a bad thing, given how awesome this genre is – and it certainly isn’t the worst example I’ve ever played ( *cough* Resident Evil Zero” *cough*). One of the first things that I will say about this game is that, whilst it does some mildly innovative stuff and has a very distinctive “personality”, it’s a pretty “standard” kind of classic-style survival horror game. The game itself contains some FLICKERING LIGHTS in one or two areas (but I don’t know whether they are fast/intense enough to be an issue or not).īecause, of course, more “searching the school after-hours” certainly won’t result in anything else creepy happening…. Plus, some earlier footage I took of the demo version last year too. I should probably also point out that, whilst I played through the whole game on my PS2, the screenshots in this review were taken from a small amount of footage I took during a brief partial playthrough with an emulator. Plus, the game case also had a really cool lenticular hologram on the cover. Still, given all the time I’ve waited, I wasn’t going to let this put me off. I had to laugh – and write a blog article about it. This is a language I know a few random words and phrases from, but don’t speak anywhere near “fluently”. And I mean fully – even the subtitles are in German too. “ No problem” I thought “ I’ve got a European PS2 and most games have language options“.īut, when it arrived, I learnt that – in a shocking display of effort – this edition of the game was fully localised in German. So, I decided to hold out for a full and honest offline physical console version of the game.įlash forward to a few months ago and, after a “ I wonder if.” internet search, I was astonished to find a sensibly-priced ( literally about eleven quid!) second-hand PS2 copy of “ObsCure” on a popular online auction site □ Interestingly, it was the German edition of the game. Although a DRM-free PC edition apparently used to be on GOG, it isn’t there now □ And the modern Steam PC version is apparently missing some of the game’s best music due to licencing issues – not to mention that it has Steam’s “ Connect to the internet to let us give you permission to play the games you’ve bought” DRM too. Yes, I could have played it on PC – but, although this edition is more easily-available, the physical edition includes the dreaded DRM ( no thanks!). Still, I didn’t expect to play the full game because second-hand PS2 copies of it were ridiculously expensive last year. The demo really doesn’t do the game any favours – with its short time limit and focus on the relatively boring opening segment of the game. When I tracked down a copy of this demo disc last year, I realised why. I hadn’t seen a survival horror game like this before.Īlthough I ended up getting Sum 41’s “Does This Look Infected?” (2002) album at the time, I didn’t get the game for some reason. When I loaded it up, the intro movie (warning – loud bell noise near the beginning) – with it’s gloriously corny “The Faculty” (1999)-inspired teen horror movie setting and Sum 41’s “Still Waiting” – absolutely astonished me. Well, this review has been over a decade and a half in the making □ Back in autumn 2004, I happened to notice the demo version of a survival horror game called “ObsCure” (2004) on a PS2 magazine demo disc.
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