Разработчик: Outsider Games
Описание
Set in a peaceful, blood-curdling village blessed with gorgeous panoramic mountaintop views and the blissful stench of rotting corpses, Wailing Heights is home to the likes of vegan werewolves, hipster vampires, soulful zombies and all manner of well-adjusted supernatural taxpaying home-owners.
Story
Meet Frances Finklestein, the one-time manager of the all-time greatest rock band that Great Britain ever produced: The Deadbeats.
After being invited to a gig in a town no one's ever heard of, Frances Finklestein is trapped in a holding cell, charged with the crime of... Being Alive! A mysterious cellmate teaches you the power of possession. You learn to “body-hop”, leaving your corpse in the holding cell and jumping from ghost to vampire to werewolf to zombie. Each creature’s skills and abilities bring you one step closer to getting your body out of lock-up and getting the hell out of Wailing Heights. But of course, it’s never that easy…
As you jump from one musical monster to another, familiar sounds and faces start up show up. The Deadbeats have returned as the undead, and they want to get the band back together.
Gameplay
In the style of classic adventure games, you will need to talk to the locals, choosing just the right thing to say (and who to be), collect lyrics as you explore the town, listen to musical clues, and like all great songwriters; steal things from other songs. Add these ingredients to your musical possession wheel, and sing your soul right into a monsters' body, gaining their supernatural abilities and moving one step closer to escaping Wailing Heights.
Features
- A laugh-out-loud script from Kevin Beimers, who brought you tthe critically-defamed Hector: Badge of Carnage (Published by Telltale Games) and Schrödinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark (Published by Team17)
- Gorgeous comic-book styled visuals and cut-scenes, brought to you by awesome artists such as John Mc Farlane (The Revenants), Glenn Fabry (Preacher), John McCrea (Hitman), PJ Holden (Judge Dredd) and more...
- Over 4000 lines of quality voice acting!
- An original soundtrack of indie, pop, soul and country tunes!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7 or higher (32-bit not supported)
- Processor: Dual-Core 1.6 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT/AMD X1650 XT
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 8 GB available space
- Sound Card: Sound Card
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Mac
- OS: Mac OS 10.7.4 or higher
- Processor: 1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Storage: 8 GB available space
- Sound Card: Sound Card
- Additional Notes: 32-bit systems not supported
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu Equivalent Distro
- Processor: Dual-Core 1.6 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT or equivalent
- Storage: 8 GB available space
- Sound Card: Sound Card
- Additional Notes: 32-bit systems not supported
Отзывы пользователей
Grabbed this game sometime last year on sale as it fit some of my niches - just got around to playing it last week as it was seasonally appropriate!
I'm not exaggerating when I say that it's been on my mind a lot, the game really hooked me. The character designs are fun, the music is top-notch (I have many of them playing on repeat in my head haha) and it's so fun to see how interconnected a lot of the characters are in the town.
Some of the puzzles were a liiiittle to obscure and took me a while to figure out (thank you for the people making walkthroughs!), the possession was a little tedious to sit through repeatedly and a couple of the acheivements seemed to not take for me (may just play a second round to see if it can be completed this time?), but all in all I had a really enjoyable time!
proper Irish game at last
I've grabbed it while it was on sale. It wasn't working on Linux at all and therefore I've tried to get it working with the emulator. This is how I got a bug report before the game started to crash and sent it to the creators then. But I've faced 2 problems with that and therefore I've decided to let others here know about those too:
1. Their email contact isn't valid anymore so alright, I've used then instead the contact-function on their website.
2. After one week I still didn't get a response from them, but thank goodness Steam gave me my money back.
Therefore this bad review isn't about the game itself: It's about the creator(s) way to deal with customers.
Too many adventure games that forget the adventure part... this one starts to feel like a chore after a few minutes... just draaags and it thinks it's far too clever than it actually ever gets.
One of those that make me with Steam had a "mixed bad" tag instead of just "yes" and "no". The visuals are charming and lovingly done, as is the sound and the music. No denying that, and it's really difficult to give something as charming and obviously done with love and care a thumbs down.
However, the control scheme is sort of artrocious on a laptop/pc, and the character-swapping mechanic has overly long animations / jingles play every time you do it. This is telling two things - the game design / programming side of the project was lacking, as did the playtesting side.
So I can't really give it a thumbs up, because it can really feel clumsy / unwieldly to some people. But I can't give it a thums down, either, because, well, the style it has over substance is really stylish.
It seems to be a game from the "anyone can slap a game together using parallax layering" era that gave us such memorable style-over-substance frauds like Darkest Dungeon. And to tell you the truth, this game actually is a point-and-click adventure, just one with a lacklustre control scheme. It's unfortunate that games with a lot less substance to their gameplay and way less experienced game designers got acclaim and success while having the exact qualities that this game has - good visual and sound design.
So - nice, charming little game if you can get over the flaws. Without the flaws it would've easily been a clear recommend.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Outsider Games |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 24.11.2024 |
| Metacritic | 70 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 72% положительных (86) |