Again these become less frequent towards the last third, to be replaced with axe wielding dolls. Some moments come with illustrations to really highlight how screwed you are. It does rather wear thin towards the end of the game, where youвЂ™re playing hide and seek with dolls in a cave, but the actual scenes in the mansion are great. Even when something isnвЂ™t leaping out and making you QTE your way to freedom, thereвЂ™s always some slight change or sound effect in a room that makes you feel like everything is watching you. ItвЂ™s a good example of how Mad Father uses its horror. The next time you go in, thereвЂ™s a maid missing and something bloody has been stuffed into the fireplace. Much to their chagrin, one of their arms falls off. For example, an otherwise clear dining room suddenly has three doll-like maids. To combat this, Mad Father has certain events that trigger as you move through the story. While the mansion does get extensive later in the game, when you realise that even the basements have basements, for the most part youвЂ™re stuck going into the same rooms over and over. Honestly, Mad Father makes some good use of its rather simple gameplay. IвЂ™m guessing a few years of therapy were needed for that one. This could range from a key to a knife or, in one memorable scene, finding a lighter and some oil to burn down a giant tangle of screaming bodies.

The game follows a classic adventure-puzzle format, where there are a plethora of things hidden around the house and you need to find the right thing to progress. In fact, she does do some pretty horrific stuff when the need calls. ItвЂ™s her Dad and IвЂ™m sure many people would do horrible things to protect their ads. Aya isnвЂ™t an inherently evil person - like her father - but she just goes along with all of this horrible stuff.

ItвЂ™s unusual to get an insight of sort into the life of villains. Meanwhile, Aya has an almost touching devotion to her mother and father, that stays strong throughout it all. In fact, pretty much all of the ghosts we meet turn out to be nice, innocent people that were manipulated and killed. But itвЂ™s already been established that the Dad is the bad guy and so are we by association. ItвЂ™s odd because if it were any other game, this questline would be pretty mundane. Thus Aya begins on a quest to rescue him. This curse causes all of the FatherвЂ™s victims to come back and haunt him and the good doctor himself is dragged away. This all backfires on him spectacularly when a curse is put upon the house by AyaвЂ™s mother, who had passed away sometime earlier. Turns out dear old Dad is cutting people up and using their parts for his various experiments. While the dialogue can be saccharine at times, all of the characters (particularly the mysterious Ogre) are interesting and well written. She also lives with DadвЂ™s assistant Maria (who quickly turns out to be a more interesting character). IвЂ™m guessing the apple doesnвЂ™t fall far from the tree. One of the first scenes shows Aya walking around from her fatherвЂ™s basement laboratory (because where else would it be?) while someone inside screams for help. That is not supposed to be a secret, by the way. Mad Father revolves around Aya, a young girl living in a giant mansion that has way too many rooms than are necessary, and her father. While the gameplay of Mad Father may not be anything to write home about, and the protagonist herself is a divisive subject for me, the concept and writing help it to stand above its peers. The people who - for the most part - spend their time getting bits cut off them with a chainsaw. Mad Father achieves it by focusing on the people at the heart of it.

ItвЂ™s not often that a game can pull of something asking to FrankensteinвЂ™s Monster and still have it be unnerving after the first time itвЂ™s thrown at you. That laboratory yields some surprisingly subtle body horror. What would otherwise be an often frustrating romp around a big house turns into an unsettling, and at times grudgingly touching, poke around a madmanвЂ™s laboratory. It puts the emphasis back on the writing and the general atmosphere. While theyвЂ™re by no means ugly, the graphics are often simplistic and the gameplay rarely extends beyond вЂUse Thing on ThingвЂ™, in classic adventure way. On the surface, it wouldnвЂ™t appear to be that scary of a thing. The RPG Maker horror game is an odd thing.

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