I remember when this game came out. At the time it looked interesting for being a horror inside a digital world and promising to be something completely different. I picked it up on a summer sale and this year as part of the 100 Days of Gaming for Extra Life, the game came up. Did I enjoy it? Yeah, I did… but I’m not sure it was as good as I expected it to be. Come on in.
Doom 64: Retribution (PC) Review
This was one of my “white whale” games. At first when the N64 was new, it was simply as an FPS game I could see working on a controller (I HATED looking up and down on a stick or buttons, even then), and having played Doom and Doom II when I finally had the hardware to in high school, this game definitely grabbed my attention. But it wasn’t enough to get the console for, so I unfortunately missed this one in it’s heyday. By the time I got the system after-market, the cart was getting hard to find in stores, so I just never got the chance… until today. You see, there are gamers who hate the idea of a game falling back into obscurity when it really deserves better, and there are few mod-communities as active as those for the Doom franchise. Even today people actively create new mods pretty regularly for the original DOS-based games, albeit now relying on extra features of user-made engine upgrades. I became aware of 3 such mods designed to port this game to the PC and looking them over, I decided to download and install this one. So COMPLETELY worth it.
Layers of Fear (PC) Review
UPDATE: Since finishing this game I have also finished it’s DLC “Inheritance.” Since it is so brief, I have decided to include it as a BONUS section at the bottom of this review rather then write up a whole new one.
This is a game that had my curiosity from the moment I heard about it. Discovery mixed with creepy as hell horror is always a great combination for me, and in fact back in the day is why I had to have the 7th Guest for my 486. But this game had the unfortunate fate of coming out, while cheap for most games, still expensive enough that someone with a developing backlog might think twice… and so I did. Instead, I wound up with this game as part of a monthly humble-bundle package where it would join those other games just like I feared and saved my money because of.
However, this was not a game the dice selected for me. Rather, while talking to Spam of the Spam & Tex youtube channel I mentioned recently, he convinced me to pick this one up in the immediate future, so as soon as I was done with the disappointment that was Saints Row 2, I installed this game. And while I was very underwhelmed in what it asked me to do, it blew me away in ways I never saw coming. Step inside….
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