Kaet Must Die Review: Well somebody is in for a world of hurt!

<p>Playing difficult games has now become a stable for the modern gamer&period; We have our Dark Souls&comma; Dead Cells and Portals to infuriate and beat us after a long hard day’s work&period; Why do we love punishment so much in gaming&quest; Well for those who want the ultimate challenge look no further&period; Kaet must Die combines exploration&comma; horror&comma; and problem-solving&period; It creates what could be one of the most thrilling games so far this year&period; Oh&comma; and it’s also really hard&comma; like super-duper difficult&period; That’s pretty much the whole marketing for this game right there&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;steamcdn-a&period;akamaihd&period;net&sol;steam&sol;apps&sol;691650&sol;ss&lowbar;2ea8713d71fdc004ad3548cd56da3ec45ad60742&period;1920x1080&period;jpg&quest;t&equals;1524152118" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Meet Kaetheran &&num;8211&semi; Kaet Must Dies Psionicist<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>You play Kaetheran&comma; a powerful psionicist who awakens in a creepy sewer without her incredible powers&period; The game provides no logical explanation of why or how she got there&period; It’s up to the player to guide Kaet through a number of challenging dungeons&period; However&comma; she is not alone as various creatures lurk the darkness along with Annalinnia the Blood Witch who’s trying to drive you mad&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kaet will have to complete each dungeon within a certain time frame before the lights go out and she is driven mad by the darkness&period; Yet over the course of the game&comma; players will acquire a number of Kaet’s powers that’ll light up the darkness&comma; freeze enemies and so forth&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>Jump Scare Bait At Its Finest<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>If you look at the Steam page you’ll notice glowing reviews saying &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;twitch streamers will love this game”&period; This is pretty much a game made for YouTubers and the like as this is perfect jump scare bait at its finest&period; It’s easy to immerse yourself into&comma; with simple controls&comma; easy objectives and a trial and error format&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;steamcdn-a&period;akamaihd&period;net&sol;steam&sol;apps&sol;691650&sol;ss&lowbar;9e5ccac70196c6fda2f8559b2ddc31b8628aba7b&period;1920x1080&period;jpg&quest;t&equals;1524152118" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>The Graphics<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Visually the game looks pretty good&comma; with great attention to detail and lighting which captures a chilling atmosphere&period; The sound design is also pretty good with small cackles&comma; menacing laughter&comma; and sinister whispers filling the area around you&period; There’s a great deal of tension and the environment does a decent job at telling a story with scattered diary pages&comma; cryptic messages scratched into the wall and murals that depict the horrifying things to come&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3>The Problems<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>So this sounds like a pretty solid game&period; In many ways it is but there are some issues which let it down&period; Now if you’re the type of player who hates getting killed off in one hit&comma; then this might not be your cup of tea&period; I get that Kaet must Die is an extremely challenging game but having players killed in one hit doesn’t make it a fair challenge&period; <span data-offset-key&equals;"fhkm9-12-0">This game takes the concept of trial and error too <&sol;span><span class&equals;"adverb"><span data-offset-key&equals;"fhkm9-13-0">seriously<&sol;span><&sol;span><span data-offset-key&equals;"fhkm9-14-0"> and turns it into more of a grind&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;steamcdn-a&period;akamaihd&period;net&sol;steam&sol;apps&sol;691650&sol;ss&lowbar;d3029f01d991ffe88004dff9b7de0f64487370c5&period;1920x1080&period;jpg&quest;t&equals;1524152118" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also&comma; there’s very little outside the powers to make the level design interesting&period; They have often complicated mazes of death which don’t offer any exciting dynamics&period; It would’ve been more interesting to have objectives which don’t resort to tedious fetch quests or if the game allowed players to interact with the environment in a manner that protects Kaet&comma; locks off enemies in certain areas or even kill them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The difficulty is only a problem since it covers up the fact there’s very little depth to the gameplay&period; It’s a decent idea and one with a little more work could’ve been very entertaining&period; But as it stands&comma; it’s a game for those annoying streamers to scream and shout at how great it is to get lost&comma; grind to the end and have endless jump scares fill a majority of the game time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;