Face your worst fears in Row of common senseA Lovecraftian 2D Survival horror game.
Row of common sense Brings players in the shoes of Carter, a stock runner in the ice -cold countries of Alaska without any memory of how he even got there. From there, Carter has to survive for endless madness while trying to survive against sick Eldritch -Gruwelen that roamed through this new snowy, snow.
So, does the game horror land? What are the survival mechanics of it? Is the plot good? Discover the answer to these questions and more in our full assessment for Row of common sense.
Row of common sense
Developer: Vixa Games
Publisher: Daedalic Entertainment
Platforms: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X/S and Microsoft Windows (rated)
Release date: September 13, 2024
Players: 1
Price: $ 19.99
Row of common sensePlayers’ gameplay sneak through monster-tasted locations to collect different sources, which are needed to build your camp and keep other survivors alive in the hard winter in Alaska.
The survivors you recruit can get sick, hurt or tired, and that influences their ability to produce food and water, unless the player is cure. Survivors lose it morally as soon as their basic needs are not satisfied and eventually die if they are neglected too long.
After upgrading certain workstations, the player can use food or water as craft materials, although it doesn’t feel like you ever get the chance to do this, because your survivors hardly produce themselves enough to keep themselves alive, not to mention The random events connect your food or infect your water every few days.
The second act is where the game mechanically records what the camp management mechanics go, by having the player produced and collecting a wicked amount of scrap to repair a truck, crashing for 30 seconds after you start control.
It goes without saying that the camp mechanics make it Row of common sense A chore to play. This could have been a short and sweet horror game with a story focus, but instead we get so much filling that the actual game lost in the middle of it.
It is incredibly repetitive to go through the same levels again and again looking for materials, especially because they have a limited amount of layouts that keep repeating. Row of common sense Starts quite strong and then makes as much effort as possible if it is possible to give the player raw, unfiltered boredom.
It is not easy to balance the mechanics of common sense in gaming, because they usually feel like cheap ways to punish the player to look at an enemy or thoroughly explore phases, and unfortunately that is exactly true Row of common sense is on.
The player gets a new trauma every time their stress meter takes up, what happens when you communicate with an enemy, including touched, seen or simply standing nearby, even though they are not detected. Even interactions that the player wins, such as killing a smaller enemy with a rock, seem to lead to stress gain, so even if you win, you still lose.
It is pretty clear that Row of common sense wants to justify his stress and trauma mechanics by force them to the player, so that it even encounters the same enemy, increases your stress that falls flat and ensures that you are forced to kill every enemy you find to prevent That you are not touched. More stress during recovering.
Row of common sense The player stimulates to always stay away from enemies, because his fight emphasizes setting up falls or throwing rocks from far away. The game does contain melee weapons, but it is rare that you can use them without causing damage, so they end as aids to break obstacles or kill bugs.
A strange thing about the fight of the game is that the player has a stationary avoidance, which, when correctly timed, avoids an enemy attack. The problem is that it locks you in an animation for so long that you cannot attack afterwards, making it completely useless.
Being corted is also a huge problem, because there is no way to go through an enemy or jump over it if they are not astonished. The player can place Bear Falls or throw stones at enemies to numb them, but they are made with the means you use to get through the main story, so there is a constant progress delay because you are forced to fight some enemies.
There is a version of Row of common sense That succeeds in being a competent survival horror game, and it is a version that completely concluded this camp management and crafts in favor of story content and tighter levels. Unfortunately that is not the version we have.
Row of common sense Is at best when the player goes through his story missions, who have unique layouts and an actual purpose. These moments do not last, because the majority of the game consists of doing the same four missions in search of random amounts of resources.
The blueprint for a title like this has already been set by 2017 Dead woodSo it’s disappointing to see Row of common sense Miss the goal in such a way, and is unable to offer a competent horror experience, because it chooses to ignore its strengths to concentrate on tedium and repetition instead.
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