Puzzle expansion for Penumbra: Black Plague. Requiem is part of Penumbra: Black Plague Gold Edition, included in the Penumbra Collection.
Mixed
7 Steam reviews
| LANGUAGE | AUDIO | SUBTITLES | INTERFACE |
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| English | Y | Y | Y |
Not recommended
Zdecydowanie najgorsza część z serii. Brak klimatu, jedynie zagadki które często nie mają sensu i opierają się na interakcji z losowymi obiektami aż "coś" się stanie.
Gra fizyką również zdarza się być bardziej irytująca niż ciekawa.
Really nice one.
Most negative reviews are from the people who haven't read description saying that it's puzzle game.
I’ve played every Resident Evil since '96, so I was hyped to jump into Requiem. But honestly? Capcom has lost the plot. I spent three hours waiting for Leon S. Kennedy to backflip through a window, but instead, I just got a physics degree and a mild case of clinical depression.
Where are the zombies? I kept checking the corners for a Licker or even a basic zombie, but all I found were giant, glowing orbs and floating blocks. I tried to perform a suplex on a sentient shadow, and I just fell through a hole in the floor.
Inventory management is a joke. There is no attache case. I couldn't even find a Green Herb. I found a walkie talkie and a bunch of painkillers which is fine, but it doesn't help when I'm trying to find the Crank Handle to open the secret library door. Also, my character doesn't have a gun? He just has a flashlight and a very fragile psyche.
The "Requiem" Part
I expected a grand finale where I blow up a giant mutated eyeball with a rocket launcher. Instead, I got a series of abstract platforming challenges that made me feel like I was trapped in a screensaver from 1998.
Bottom Line: If you're looking for tactical survival horror with the OG RE cast, stay away. If you want to move boxes in a basement while a voice in your head judges your life choices, this is the "Resident Evil" for you.
Bu korku oyunu değil ?, bu oyunun devamı da olamaz ? bu ne skim şey böyle, oyunda korku atmosferi içinde puzzle yapıyoruz. Başka herhangi bir şey yok
An "Epilogue"?
Penumbra: Requiem is the final installment of the Penumbra game series and finally shows what happens to the series protagonist, but I doubt anyone saw the conclusion and thought it made the story better.
This game is essentially a set of challenge maps. It all seems to take place in the protagonists mind, so each level is able to take place in completely different locations without any rhyme or reason to what comes next. The puzzles themselves range between interesting to execute and tedious to complete, but I'm not sure any of them caused me to stretch my understanding of the game mechanics or have a real "Ah-Ha!" moment, which is what most great puzzle games strive for.
No, this final instalment seems to fully ignore the series horror elements, as there are no monsters, and story elements. I suppose this game does continue the story, but it essentially just shows the main character drowning in madness ending in his ultimate demise and adds nothing to the story of the games that came before.
Honestly, I don't know who this particular game is for. The whole 2 hour experience mostly comprises looking for where you should jump to next, then either doing that or picking up an object you need to slowly move it into place so that THEN you can jump to the next position. I'm struggling to think of any "puzzle" that wasn't simply finding an item and sticking it where it goes, or pulling a lever to open a gate. This game also got rid of throwing objects for no reason (I mean, probably to keep you from breaking puzzles, but you can still fling things, just not with a press of a button).
Honestly, I played this whole series because I was interested in seeing where it would go and I enjoyed working with the physics, but looking back on it, it was more tedious than enjoyable. And the story that seemed to have interesting elements really landed like a wet blanket. The story IS interesting, right up until it's resolved by not really resolving and answers your questions with the exact answers you'd expect. I really wish I liked these games more, but each one led to a disappointing time.
If you strip away the core element that defined the previous games, namely, the horror, you’re left with a mess of leftover ideas awkwardly repackaged as a puzzle game. Because of this shift in focus, the DLC ultimately falls short. Perhaps my expectations were too high, given how phenomenal the main game was. However, by prioritising puzzles and parkour over tension and fear, the expansion loses the very magic that made the series compelling in the first place. Unfortunately, these new elements feel dull and forgettable rather than engaging. There are no enemies, and the game is quite short, too. In the end, it feels less like a DLC from the Penumbra series and more like a disconnected side experiment.
