4/30/2023 0 Comments Obscure 2 for ps2![]() This is a tactic similar to the first Obscure, in that the game introduced you to Kenny early in the game, then locked him away for hours while you played as all of his friends… though the difference in this case is that you actually PLAYED as Kenny, whereas here you get thirty seconds of Stan driving down the road before he’s completely absent from the story for about three hours. The story of Obscure Aftermath starts out with Stan providing a very brief recap of the previous game as well as the path his life has taken in the intervening three years between then and now before completely shifting focus to Fallcreek College and the students therein. I mean, who does that? Who sits down and says “Hey, a lot of people like this feature… let’s take it out of the sequel”Â? What motivates a company to do something like that? Is this some sort of real-life reenactment of the old Bill Hicks joke about bands trying to convince their fans to kill themselves? I seriously don’t understand it.Īlright, alright, enough. Seriously for every single thing they fixed they broke like five things for no adequately explained reason, and in most cases, these were things that the original more than a cookie-cutter rehash of its peers. I mean, how in the hell do you DO that? No, forget how, WHY? I’m not even trying to be funny about this it’s literally like they read every positive review of the game, wrote down everything reviewers loved about the original, and RIPPED ALL OF THAT OUT when they started working on the sequel. So leave it to Hydravision to make a game that’s WORSE. Hey, with some minor tweaks, a sequel could be an awesome game in its own right, and could guarantee the series a place in survival horror immortality. Doing a teen horror flick as a video games was, and still is, a very cool concept, and Obscure’s Maniac Mansion aesthetic (everyone has a special ability to contribute) combined with its adherence to the rule of the drive-in (anyone can die at any time and you’ll just have to do without), as well as a few other concepts, made it a cute, if occasionally annoying, game that didn’t do anything terribly spectacular beyond offering legitimate two-player co-op play (that honestly doesn’t work as well as one would like, hence the frustration). But while Alex obviously disagrees with me, I have to be honest here: I found Obscure to be a neat, novel IDEA crammed into a game that plays like Don Imus looks and feels like Resident Evil: The High School Years. The IDEA of the first Obscure was great, and no one can possibly deny that: take The Faculty, add some Resident Evil/Silent Hill sillyness, and BAM! Instant quality. Having played my fair share of the first game, I can safely tell you that if you didn’t play it, you didn’t miss much. ![]() Dubbed Obscure 2 across the pond, a budget priced port (along with the more EXTREME name of Obscure Aftermath, I don’t know why either) is a perfectly natural thing both for fans of the first and those who might have missed the original. At least, in the US for whatever reason it was a small-scale hit in its native land of England, thus prompting a sequel. The game also offers single or team play, with a second player able to enter or exit the game at any time for a unique co-op experience.The original Obscure, if you’ll excuse the tired joke, lived up to its cleverly chosen name upon US release a budget title published by small-scale publisher Dreamcatcher and developed by virtually unknown company Hydravision, it quietly slipped out onto store shelves, attracted a small niche audience, then faded back into the virtual nonexistence of being a cult favorite. Controlled AI settings of defense, attack and help, allow characters to assist each other during combat and while solving puzzles. Offering a wide range of gameplay options to see gamers through the night, Obscure provides players with the ability to customize their action experience by interchanging between any characters at any time, utilizing the unique skills and abilities of each student. A string of mysterious disappearances and unexplained events set the stage for a night more horrifying than any trip to detention. In the vain of Hollywood's popular horror movie genre, Obscure tracks a group of five high school students who discover the halls they walk each day are anything but safe. Short, predictable, and buried with survival-horror banality, Obscure also offers innovation at a pleasing price tag, yet is still doomed to fall into obscurity.
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