A tale of an old pensioner in a creepy big house where a brave woman will put her life on the line to get answers and dark secrets, all of this comes to Nintendo Switch, but how is it? Find it all out in our review of Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Enter The Horror
Remothered is a survival stealth-based horror game where you visit the house of Richard Felton, an old man who’s daughter is missing. While you go to uncover secrets you find your self trapped in a gigantic property with a deranged old man lurking around to kill you. The setting of this game and story hands down is nightmarish.
Keeping It Simple
Remothered isn’t like other survival horror games where you find some kind of offense to use against the horrific creeps, instead, you have only one thing that is pure stealth alongside a few handy little items that only cause distractions and not much.
Keeping an eye out and paying attention to the slightest of sounds you rely on instinct. In the big old house hiding in closets or under a few sofas will be your only breathers or more of lifesavers and apart from that it is just you in an extremely unsettling environment.
Are You Scared
In terms of gameplay as said above Remothered has it very simple, you get to move around with an annoyingly slow speed (Protagonist has heels on her feet how is she even alive by now), there are evades that can be used when the twisted old man gets close to you.
Apart from this loop of hide and seek in the game you get to solve puzzles that help you get access to new areas. While you are trying to escape from the nightmarish place very tense situations can grasp you in.
Hiding is all fun until Mr. Richard gets some kind of a hint about your location and by this comes up a minigame where you move your right stick to control your breath, a tiny mistake and he slashes you.
Some Get It The Hard Way
Remothered’s setting and theme are very well put but the overall design and mechanics might force a ton of players to quit halfway through as most of the time you can’t tell where the threat is and you get caught off guard happens a lot. This whole scenario becomes less of a game well played and more a matter of luck.
Those who have the patience and somehow manage to get through the game will definitely enjoy as there are many genuine surprises in the whole playthrough.
Things Are Getting Ugly
That one aspect where this game disappoints you the most is how it looks on the Nintendo Switch, at first when you launch the game the story is narrated via a good CGI cutscene that really gets you in the mode but little do you know about what’s next.
Right after that CGI, you are now in gameplay and my god it is utter trashy in here, this game has one of the most terrible graphics and polish. Hell, visually it’s so weak that the protagonists face stays blurry during gameplay and there is barely any proper finishing to the whole build.
The entire thing is very dark but that isn’t as much of a problem but the graphics are a serious letdown. Performance isn’t all that great, it has some frame drops here and there and going from handheld to docked doesn’t make much of a difference
What Could’ve Been Great
Remothered is not a very bad game by any means it has a gripping story and good narration, the game does creat tense and scary situations for you and offers you a nightmarish experience in terms of both gameplay and setting but the ultra-difficult and sometimes unfair gameplay mechanism is a big bummer and the poor visuals are just a big no-no.
Final Verdict
Remothered had a lot of potential that goes to waste all becase of how things take shape on screen apart from that for hardcore stealth horror lovers this can be a good game but to many, this game sadly won’t appeal and force you to quit. Remothered; Tormented Father is a 4 Out Of 10 game that is an absolte turn off right the moment you shift from CGi to gameplay.
Final Score: 4/10
