Unlike in games such as Outlast 2 and SOMA, which are ironclad and consistent in terms of their mechanics, narrative, and pacing, Those Who Remain compares rather pale.
As the title’s clunky gameplay mechanics, questionable performance, and ever so rapidly collapsing narrative, begun to increasingly grind on me. From this point on, what was once an intriguing, and non-invasive experience, turned into a tale of boredom and frustration. Once I made my way onto fire escape, he finally set himself free, and began walking in circles around a bus stop.Īfter this particular section, my spirits picked up, as I assumed that this encounter was only a one off, only for the slumbering monstrosity to just jump up on too the floor where I stood. I noticed that the monster seeking me, was stuck in a loop, and couldn’t get past an invisible wall to get to me. However, as soon as I started making my way towards the fire escape, which had to be used to enter the library, I noticed something. However, as I had to play Those Who Remain for this review, I persevered. When I first stumbled across the abovementioned mechanic, after reaching the library portion of the game, I honestly lost all will to play on any further. And from that point on, it starts to become more of a hide-and-seek simulator, than a horror game. You explore the environment, uncover the ever-growing lore behind the plot, and solve a handful of puzzles, and once Those Who Remain finally starts rolling, and picks up its pace, it throws at you the abhorrent mechanic of insta-fail hostiles. The initial hour or so, which you spend during Those Who Remain, is the definite highpoint of the entire experience.
Those Who Remain, just like the vast majority of horror games, is a first person adventure, which takes you on a journey from the main menu, all the way down to the final credits, and while initially, it does present some rather exciting premise, through the use of the stalking, ever present darkness, it quickly falls off its rails, and falls into the pitfalls of cliché tropes, which over the past five or so years, have been beaten to death by nearly every horror game. And while titles such as The Last of Us Part 2, and Ghost of Tsushima are hogging the majority of the slowly dying current gen spotlights, there is still some room in it for titles such as the recently released Those Who Remain. But just because the doors are slowly begging to close on it, it does not mean that it is dead and buried, as there is still an abundance of games being released on both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. This generation of consoles is slowly approaching its finale.
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