Not exact matches
It's rare that a
game can be beautiful, gruesome,
tense and exhilarating all at the
same time, but Inside does just that.
It's the
same in every Lego
game, but somehow I feel it more acutely in the middle of what should be a
tense dogfight.
Whether it is two minds attempting to solve a puzzle or a
tense head - to - head battle, these
games wouldn't be the
same without a bunch of humans running around killing, maiming, or, occasionally (very occasionally), helping each other.
This
same level of quality extends to the
game's soundtrack, which features an array of gorgeous operatic pieces and
tense, atmospheric tracks that perfectly set the mood for both explorations and battle.
For me, it has a lot of the
same issues Naughty Dog's Uncharted
games have but they are even more heightened to me because the setting isn't a fun Indiana Jones style action adventure but rather a
tense horror adventure.
Zombi U gave me the
tense, stressful resource management and scavenging of a traditional horror
game while at the
same time adding in permadeath, emphasizing the consequences of death.