Elevator Ritual

Elevator Ritual is a bad RPG Maker horror game which is sad because it actually does have some interesting ideas and potential, but let’s get into the story. A young maid named Naysilla works in a famous and extravagant Hotel or used to be unfortunately the hotel has seen better days do to accidents and just general problems, but after an incident in an elevator Naysilla discovers a note with instructions to something called the elevator ritual. But upon following the instructions the young lady is transported to an alternative version of the hotel one in disarray and populated by horrible monsters, now the young maid must discover away to escape and return home or be trapped there forever.

So let’s talk about the likes, the story is half good, what I mean is when it started out I liked it, but when it got to the big twist it unfortunately just fell flat. The RPG Graphics are okay has a good use of colors and designs for a standard RPG Maker, the levels aka the hotel was good the hotel is quite interesting there are some things that are strange for a Hotel like having its own bakery and a clinic, but it does make the hotel interesting and all those areas have some nice designs. The monster designs were good each one had their own unique look.

The characters were okay nothing really to write home about. The music was okay pretty serviceable.The gameplay was a real mixed bag leaning more heavily into the dislikes than the likes, but it had some interesting ideas like fighting bosses and some of the puzzles were interesting.

So let’s talk about the dislikes, like I said the story is only half good, but when we get to the other half and to the twist like I said it just ruins it, basically the big twist is that somehow this magic elevator ritual transported Naysilla to the future for some reason and the guardian of the elevator shows her what happened to make everything bad and I'm like wait that doesn't make sense even for a time travel story and then the ending comes where we find out how the bad future happens because she went to the future which makes it even more stupid and convoluted. And from what I can tell there's only one ending which sucks even more. Another problem with the story is there are a lot of misspelling and just weird grammatical errors that just kind of takes you a little bit out of the experience.

The gameplay could be quite frustrating like with the monsters there’s no way to avoid most of them without getting attacked, there are health potions but you can only use them when you’re not getting attacked by an enemy and if you're pinned by them there is no way to pause the game and quit or even heal yourself you just have to wait till you die, because another frustrating thing is the common enemies can't be hurt, I really wish there was a way to hurt them or at least push them away so you can escape without having them pin you and wait for them to kill you.

Also I feel like a map should have been added to the game, a lot of times I was running around to the point where a map would have been really appreciated. Most of the puzzles were a bit bad and a bit to convoluted even for a horror game, also sometimes it feels like there's no real direction on what to do after beating a certain segment, like I'm not asking for my hand to be held, but the character saying something like oh perhaps I should go over to this place, would have helped to give a clear indirect of what to do. There is also one or two segments where you had to wait until it cutscene triggered which I don't know felt kind of dumb as well.

Now with that finally done with Elevator Ritual is a bad RPG Maker horror game which is sad because it actually does have some interesting ideas and potential, but because it's bogged down with bad gameplay and a very stupid second half story it's just not worth playing it even though it's free.

I'm hoping that the Creator of this game can do a complete remake like give it the Mad Father treatment, update the graphics, rework the story and improve on the puzzles if the person could do that I think this game has potential.

Interesting story, had a hard time with a couple of the bosses but well worth it! 8.5 out of 10

I played this game to completion...and I could not tell you where you should go next, let alone why you go where you go as the game does not give you as the player any hints whatsoever.

Each floor is almost identical to one another meaning you're going around in circles, stairs, and the odd elevator which signals some kind of progression. Excited in the first 30 minutes when starting up, but the horror is not being scared but being frustrated.

I have no words it is just horrible I got so lost and you got no hints were to go. Also when the monsters see you they know what step you're going to make and they are just too fast and need to be slowed down just a little bit so you can actually get away. 1/10 wouldn't recommend.

Very slow start with some menial chores to set up a mood to subvert. Some nice pacing and atmosphere that's kinda muddled a bit by the enemy Ai to just sorta wander meaninglessly.
There's some wierd text , basic ESl issues ,but overall It's a nice game for the price with a creepy atmosphere that is worth whatever you paid for it.
I do hope the developer continues to hone their craft.

I don't think this is a bad game, necessarily. It was just a big disappointment. I like a slow buildup for my horror games, but there was no development of characters, no foreshadowing, no hints at mysteries or puzzles to come. Just a lot of menial chores, same-looking rooms, and "I have no reason to go here". Let me explore, or at least don't give me thirteen floors of nothing.
I thought at least things would improve once I got to the horror parts, but the heavily foreshadowed terror was mostly just zombies. The flashlight mechanics make it impossible to see anything before it's right next to you, so there's no real way to avoid them if you don't see them coming. The puzzles are that classic style of unintuitive "memorize stuff and make unintuitive logic leaps" from old adventure games, which is made more tedious by the fact that there's no auto-run in a game where running everywhere is both essential and has no penalty besides the pain for your finger.
I also only just found out after the fact, but according to this review, https://steamcommunity.com/id/MinisterJay/recommended/813150/ the dev also is no longer supporting this title and says they'll improve the issues in their next game, so this one isn't going to improve.
4/10, I guess I'm taking the stairs.

With a name like "Elevator Ritual", how could I refuse?

Nice and cool game. Really challenging. As a rpg fans i love it. The combination of puzzle and story are really good. But the control can be much better. But overall this game is really good. Great sound too. If you like rpg and mistery you should buy and play this game.

I realy like it. Such 2d Silent Hill.

Told developer known issues with game. Response was that the develeoper was going to try to do better on next game. Do better on this game. You can update it.