Разработчик: WildArts Games
Описание
The Revival Update is here! Get ready to experience the chilling horrors of Little Vale like never before! Helltown has been remade and drastically improved:
- New models and animations!
- Improved environments and level design!
- Improved gameplay mechanics!
- New dialogues and an improved storyline!
- New soundtrack by Ockeroid, composer of the excellent Crow Country ost!
The year is 1959, you are a postman and you must deliver mail to a brand new town called Little Vale. Although the sun is shining and the birds are chirping, this town is shrouded in mystery. Something… unnatural is afoot here.
Talk to the town's people and explore Little Vale to uncover clues as to what's behind this seemingly idyllic town. However, when all hell breaks loose, you'll have to run away and hide from insidious monsters!
Who is that strange woman you see in your dreams? What does she want with you? What secrets are the Little Vale's residents hiding? It's up to you to find out by seeking out the 5 different endings possible! Will you be able to escape, or will you be another lost soul trapped in... Helltown?
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7 64-Bit
- Processor: i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 570
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- Sound Card: Needed for sound
Отзывы пользователей
Great game with one hot Nun.
Sexy demon nun
really cool story and awesome atmosphere. i was able to launch a man into the stratosphere with a garbage can in the first part of the game. 10/10
Man, I was really conflicted with this one. I feel bad thumbing it down to, especially with how responsive the devs are in the discussion threads and reviews.
Props to you, and I respect your effort.
The below will sound very nit-picky but is meant for the devs since they seem they care
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Summary of my Experience that led to the thumbs down:
I beat the Revival and got ending 1, if I hadn't got this ending, I probably would have been a happy camper, thumbed up the game and moved on. Instead I got extremely annoyed for 2 major reasons.
- At no point did it feel like I was entering the "Final Area", which checkpoint locks you, meaning i would have to go through 70% of the game again to get back to the non-linear part to get other endings. (I didn't look them up afterwards but I did look up the one I was going for which was ending 5, and the game kinda misdirected me, saying go into the cabin when the ritual starts, the only that started was stairs extended to a new area, which I thought would lead back out, hence annoyance)
- I'm really over this whole alternate ending thing some games have. Because if you get the subpar ending, your whole experience feels immediately cheapened and wasted. Ending 1 is that ending. It's abrupt, left field, short, zero satisfaction. I like Endings that play into the actions you make, but are all fairly similar, not based around oh I got checkpoint locked, because I went through one wrong loading screen at the wrong time, or I didn't find 3 random items hidden in some corner far from the player starting point at some random instance out of a few instances. The only time I want this, is when I mega love a game, which has happened like 3 times. Easter Eggs, hidden secrets are fine, but when it covers up the juicy good bits of a story, it's in the wrong direction.
So with my satisfaction left empty and bitter, I turned to trying to look up the endings but couldnt find a straight to the point video with the Revival update. I found one of the old version of the game, and skipped through it to see what the experience was like and how it differed.
I read a review talking about how they preferred the previous version, which surprised the developer, they claimed the pacing and structure didn't change much. I was more inclined to believe the dev. Until I watched this youtube video which showed all the endings and a rough gameplay/story break down.
The 2 versions are dramatically different experiential and story wise.
This led me to indecision, do I waste time replaying the game when I really dont want to, to get a different ending. Or do I play the old version.
I decided to play the old Version.
To Summarize: The old version did need a big update. It suffered from a lack of audio, pretty much across the board, and some weird pacing decisions which I'm assuming is based around Student project and Time. I got about 70% of the way through the old version before I stopped, I felt like I saw enough to give my review at this point.
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I will breakdown here a comparison of the 2 versions of what is better and worse in both versions
Revival: ====
Pros:
- Visual updates & visuals overall are really good
- Dialogue system improvements are across the board better
- Gameplay improvements
- Levels and some areas you can explore more of
- Cutting to the next chapter is less abrupt (This was really bad in the Original)
- Soundtrack is incredible in setting the tone
- Talking about the black roses and the people in the woods going missing mentioned by Neil, was really cool
Cons:
- Story is not subtle, it literally ruins the plot in like 5 secs of the game if you talk to every NPC, if you have watched a lot of horror, it's not hard to surmise who/what lilth is. To the point this isn't a spoiler.
- AI doesn't get better
- The game is too short to have such a dramatical shift in visuals and tone. It goes from feeling like you are in a 1960s version of the Nun Movie, to Silent Hill meets Hellraiser. This contrast doesn't feel good at all, and feels weird. The Original's hell looks much more natural for what you would expect in the game.
- Lilth is not scary. Not in the slightest. It's not subjective. The Nun is more of an interesting movie with horror elements, not a scary movie. But in the original where it feels like a demonic entity and Lilth are working together to haunt this town and the player, actually feels very eerie, and since the story in the original isn't direct you are asking questions like what is going on, who is that, what the hell is that.... In this one when you see lilth since they show you her in the first 5 secs and then you learn her name in the first 5 mins you are like Oh lilth. Oh Hi Lilth.
- Charon is a furry now
Neutrals:
- Level Design: The level design in hell, gets better, but it also is 3 times bigger, confusing because the visual change is so stark different. I didn't realize i was in a mirror world till I explored a lot more.
Original: ====
Pros:
- Actually has some horror and eeriness to it. Actual Horror.
- Intro: The horror it starts at the beginning in your dream. You are being followed by a cloaked figure that disappears, but gets closer as you get closer to the exit. (The knocking in the Revival was a great touch but everything else wasn't as good) Then you wake up at NIGHT, not in the morning on a bright sunny day, you then have to go back to sleep and this sense of Will I go back to that nightmare?
- When you escape the park, you are surrounded by ghostly figures that have a really cool visual effect if you get close to them. This was really cool and more effective player of putting the player in a eerie situation and guiding them where you want but still allowing for a little exploration. (This was too short but this was an overall issue of the original.)
- This one is big. The NPC Dialogue and placement is much more logically placed to guide the player to places of intrigue. And to ask questions about what is going on. The old lady mentions something went wrong in the past, and is facing towards a cabin. Neil is being questioned and warned, then disappears the next day and no one claims to know a neil.
- Postman Job. The game stuck better to doing your job instead of a random delivery job in the second day of revival.
- Finding the homeless guy dead on the slab, this is just empty in Revival, but having that connection because i found the homeless guy and a bit of his story and then seeing that conclusion was great.
Cons:
- Chapters are very abrupt and short
- The game is just much shorter inbetween each segment and overall, there isn't enough time to let things sink in
- Soundtrack is just missing and is painstakingly felt
- sfx are just not as good in most cases, but in some are still good and subtle. I think I actually prefer a lot of the SFX in the horror scenarios, like in the park, there were a lot less random sounds that were just confusing me, and actually drawing me to the horror spots. But in other cases there were some spots just missing sounds or not properly tuned or as strong
- Lighting wasn't as good
- Some people you couldn't talk to
- Gameplay and animation issues
- Checkpoints were even further apart causing you to start over really far back
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My unsolicited Recommendations of how this should have been handled. Would have been to take some of the changes of Revival (Soundtrack, sfx improvements, some visual improvements (Better Animations, Lighting, meshes and textures, extend the levels to let the player explore more and not have as abrupt ends to each chapter). Release this as a patch, aka Remaster.
But the changes to the story, lilth, and the silent hill aspects, is such a different game, that it should have been a spin off/spiritual successor, this would have allowed for basically new sales/marketing/first day release.
(Hit Char limit, I really do hope this helps, Best Regards)
I really love the setting, atmosphere, and story of Helltown. The town itself is beautiful and the retro graphics give the game a really unique look. I have played both the original and the revival, and both have pros and cons. For instance, in the original version, the danger seems to be a little less immediate and story details are more ambiguous. In the revival, one of the first people I talked to on day 1 mentioned Lillith, which makes it more evident that there is a cult/something weird happening in Little Vale. I liked the improvements in the revival and how certain sections and enemies were made easier to deal with (ex.: the part where you find the keys in the graveyard). There were some changes that left me a little confused. Where did the homeless man's dog go on the 2nd day? Also, the original version's dog ending was one of my favorite video game endings ever, so I was sad that it was not in the revival. I'm not sure which version of Helltown I like more, but I definitely had a good time playing and recommend both versions. I can see there is something special about this game, and would love to see more stuff like it. I actually think that Helltown would make a very good horror movie too!
Never got to play the original due to it not working on my PC, but seeing as the remake was given to everyone who owned the original I gave this a shot last night. I can confidently say that this was pretty fun, I did wind up using a guide to get a few of the other endings, and it took me around 4hrs to actually get all of them. The presentation is really really nice looking and the actual story is really fun even if you see everything coming a mile away.
It was definitely worth a good evening sharing some spooky content with my community, I'm not sure how it holds up to the original but I do think this remake here was a lot of fun.
Fun little horror game. Run around, get spooked. Great atmosphere and even greater artstyle.
I'll keep playing and will update my review after, but i'm having fun right now!
Edit: i have played the game more. I am always correct in everything this is fun as hell
Love the atmosphere and the setting. Will try to get all endings for sure!
I really liked the PS1 style graphics as well as the Silent Hill vibe going on
The revival update of this game is very good! I usualy do not play horror game, put I love this one! Not too scary but very spooky univers and well placed jump scared. The game play is very fun! I haven't play much but I will play more for sure!
Revival version provides a significant graphics improvement while keeping the original feel of the game. Great replayability with multiple endings and has new mechanics and interesting gameplay. Comes with some interactive physics which is always a win. Would recommend.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | WildArts Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 77% положительных (43) |