1166 Game Review: The end of the Game World is near!

<p>Gather round children as today’s review will examine one of the most puzzling games I’ve encountered in a long time&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s just as thrilling as games like the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;rnrgames&period;com&sol;hanabi"><strong>hanabi game<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period; This is a beast of much complexity&comma; rough edges&comma; and charm that seem to have been blindly put together within someone’s coffee break&period; I’m confused&comma; this game nearly broke me and yet&comma; I can’t shake it off&period; What am I talking about&quest; Well just read on about my experience with 1166&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;123832" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-123832" style&equals;"width&colon; 1920px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-123832 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;07172144&sol;1166Bagogames20174&period;jpg" alt&equals;"1166bagogames20174" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-123832" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;1166&comma; Predator the cat productions&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"margin&colon; 0px&semi; color&colon; black&semi; font-family&colon; 'Calibri'&comma;'sans-serif'&semi; font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;"> <&sol;span><br &sol;>&NewLine;1166 is a strange being&comma; to say the least as it could’ve been utterly brilliant if it weren&&num;8217&semi;t so massively flawed&period; This is among the many games that focus on extreme&comma; psychological horror with a colorful pixelated art style&period; 1166 hopes to be placed among games such as Lone Survivor&comma; Claire&comma; The Last Station and Uncanny Valley&period; But what those games had was an interesting concept and while flawed in some way were strongly build and had a compelling nature&period; 1166 is just all kinds of what the f&ast;&ast;&ast;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The story is about a cop who returns to active duty to investigate a kidnapping of a young woman&period; After meeting his new partner&comma; they’re both soon enough thrown into a surrealistic nightmare filled with demonic creatures&period; As you progress through the story the perspective changes from one of many characters until its climax and the big reveal&period; This is pretty interesting yet the problem is that the mystery itself makes little sense&period; I can gather this uninformative approach may be appealing but for a compelling mystery&comma; there needs to be some logic and a core&period; Not just random thoughts that are thrown into a melting pot&period; If we can’t follow the mystery or if it changes without reason it’s difficult to grasp and then you lose interest from the viewer&period; A show like Twin Peaks would be a good example at clever yet very complex mystery writing&period; Here it’s difficult to grasp the plot on the whole as it’s never really sure what the mystery should be&period; One minute it’s about a missing girl&comma; next there’s someone experiencing horrid nightmares then it’s a homeless bum who sees monster’s all the time with an end that ties little together&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It’s not helped by the cringe-worthy dialogue and the lack of any interesting themes to engage you into the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;story”&period; But we get pixel boobs&excl; I mean&comma; I love boobs but one of the game’s main selling points is pixel boobs and they’re not even that good&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;123833" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-123833" style&equals;"width&colon; 1920px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-123833 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;07172223&sol;1166Bagogames2017&period;jpg" alt&equals;"1166bagogames2017" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-123833" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;1166&comma; Predator the cat productions&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"margin&colon; 0px&semi; color&colon; black&semi; font-family&colon; 'Calibri'&comma;'sans-serif'&semi; font-size&colon; 14pt&semi;"> <&sol;span>This I could forgive but what lets 1166 down majorly is its poor presentation and the lame experience it offers for players&period; The controls are awkward as hell&comma; with interactions not registering most of the time&semi; attacks not hitting the target even when you right next to them and just the clunky and pacing makes everything feel sluggish&period; While there are some cool monster designs and backdrops&comma; overall the game world feels poorly build with object baffling sizing&comma; lazily executed animations and graphical glitches popping up too frequently&period; It didn’t help with the dull monotone soundtrack filling the background as it looped the same few notes over and over again&period; It was needless and annoying&comma; to say the least&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;123834" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-123834" style&equals;"width&colon; 1920px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-123834 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;07172302&sol;1166Bagogames20173&period;jpg" alt&equals;"1166bagogames20173" width&equals;"1920" height&equals;"1080" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-123834" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;1166&comma; Predator the cat productions&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There was also a strange glitch that removed my save file and attempting to continue the game just brought me back to the menu&period; So it meant that I had to slog my way through most of this game all over again with the tedious gameplay&comma; clunky controls and the lack of any interesting gameplay elements to break up the dull combat&comma; mindless exploration and shallow story&period; The only thing I really liked was that there are cats in this&comma; I’m a cat person and I liked seeing cats roaming the level and speaking to one of the protagonists’ cat during dream segments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1166 was clearly a labor of love&comma; a passion project just without the passion or creativity&period; I don’t mean to sound harsh but this is not worth the time&comma; effort or money considering the lack of anything really enjoyable&period; While it’s not totally awful I can’t recommend this as there are far better games to play for free online&period; This doesn’t even amount to some of the stuff you could find on Newgrounds&period;com&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>A Steam Review Key for 1166 was provided by Predator The Cat Productions for the purpose of this Review<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;