Everyone talks about how perfect and angelic Rachel was, and how the father's love for her (and her alleged returned love) was pure and simple (I mean.not simple enough, apparently, since he r*ped her), and how the main character didn't need to be jealous of Rachel because her father's soul "was big enough to love both you and Rachel." I mean I HOPE not, because the 'love' he had for Rachel was sexual. So, ok, besides the fact that this game doesn't treat the idea of suicide tastefully or respectfully AT ALL (rather, it's used exclusively as a plot device that 'crazy people' turn to as an escape AND as a punishment), WHY did the game choose to make the father sympathetic? By the end of the game, we are told that the mother is desperate to be loved and needed, so in a jealous rage she killed the pregnant teenager that her pedophilic husband r*ped and knocked up (keep in mind that since the main character says the affair lasted a year, Rachel was actually 15 when this all started). You also have the choice NOT to kill her, but if you don't have her commit suicide, she instead decides to spend the rest of her life in the falling-apart, rotting hotel trying to return the hotel to its glory days and reunite with her "mommy and daddy". And! By the end of the game everyone is dead, including Irving (by suicide), and the game gives you the choice to have the main character kill herself too. The problem is that by the end of the game, the story is trying its hardest to paint the mother as the exclusive bad guy, and the father as a misunderstood, desperate man who's stayed tragically in love with Rachel since her murder. And the issue isn't even from the fact that the main character's dad is a pedophile who preyed on an extremely isolated girl he was tutoring, or that Rachel was killed by the mother, or even that Irving would go to the hotel to work with the pedophile who knocked up his sister to try to solve her murder. I got the game thinking 'ok, it can't be THAT bad, these people are being dramatic'. I read the reviews and had the vague ending of the game spoiled to me pre-purchase. Watch a let's play of this or look at screenshots if you want to experience this game, do not buy. And I don't mean it in the wink-wink-nudge-nudge way, I mean I truly do not think this studio deserves money from this product, and I regret supporting them by purchasing it myself. The plot, however, is so terrible that I cannot in good conscience recommend this game. The gameplay and game design of this game are amazing. The game mechanics are very simple, and clean. It's extremely atmospheric, the sound design is great, the voice acting is great. All rights reserved.It is beautiful to look at. The Daedalic logo is a trademark of Daedalic Entertainment GmbH, Germany. ©2019 Daedalic Entertainment GmbH and "ONE-O-ONE GAMES". Multi-layered narrative thriller, combining elements of mystery and horror.Intriguing, touching and mature storytelling.
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