The Town Of Light Review – A Lobotomy For Everyone

<p><em>The Town of Light<&sol;em> is another indie game that has jumped ship from PC and landed on the major consoles&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m a huge fan of this seeing as I don&&num;8217&semi;t have a good gaming PC and had this game not made the jump I wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t have been able to enjoy it&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m a huge fan of horror&sol;suspense games that really make your mind crack to figure out the ending&comma; games like <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;layers-of-fear-review-not-an-onion&sol;"><em>Layers of Fear<&sol;em><&sol;a> and <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;the-park-review&sol;"><em>The Park<&sol;em><&sol;a> were two other games that made me figure it out&period; Luckily I&&num;8217&semi;m smarter than the games or just have a lot of common sense&comma; but I figured out the twist to those two games and this one&period; That doesn&&num;8217&semi;t mean I didn&&num;8217&semi;t enjoy this title&comma; the opposite is the case&comma; I loved my time with it&period; <em>The Town of Light<&sol;em> really made you work for clues and what to do&comma; and that&&num;8217&semi;s part of the reason everyone should take a look at it&comma; plus due to the fact that it is somewhat historical&comma; and we all know how much I love to learn&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The game flip flops between time periods&comma; at some points you are in the right now&comma; but you will flash to the late 30&&num;8217&semi;s and early 40&&num;8217&semi;s&period; Loosely based on true events you experience what it was like to be in a lunatic asylum seventy years ago&comma; particularly Volterra in Tuscany&comma; Italy&period; Renee is your name and you get to experience what life was like for her and what was slowly done to her mine&period; The story isn&&num;8217&semi;t laid out to bear in front of you at all&comma; you really have to go looking for it&period; I looked really hard in the asylum for everything and through my first go around I missed quite a lot of the alternate chapters and the second ending&period; So click on everything&comma; look everywhere&comma; just explore&comma; pretend this is an adventure game from the 90&&num;8217&semi;s and just search to your little heart&&num;8217&semi;s desire&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;126363" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-126363" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-126363" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;10014755&sol;Town-of-Light-Oculus-Rift-game-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-126363" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>The Town of Light<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; LKA&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The controls are very simple in this game&period; It is first-person so you get to see everything that Renee sees and you must interact with an object in the world by floating your tiny&comma; white reticle over them&period; When it is too sunny or bright in the room there is a chance you may miss something&comma; so you&&num;8217&semi;ll have to squint sometimes&period; The left thumbstick moves Renee while the right thumbstick controls the camera movement&period; X is used to interact and you be pressing this button like a madman&period; When the room is too dark press Square&comma; if you need a hint press the touchpad on the controller&comma; but you may not always get a suitable hint&period; What helped me the most when I was lost would jump into the menu by pressing triangle and read my memories&semi; that is the only way to progress through the game is by paying close attention to what is said&period; There were a few times I had no idea what to do and the hint bar was being useless&comma; pressing triangle saved me from roaming this asylum for hours&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The design of the game is well done but does get frustrating from time to time&period; You never got to carry a map&comma; so when you needed to find a certain room to progress the story you would have to find the map on the wall and get it squared away&period; The graphics are also not what I&&num;8217&semi;m used to seeing on the PS4&comma; that being said I played this in between sessions of <em>Horizon Zero Dawn<&sol;em> and <em>Yakuza<&sol;em> 0&comma; so my eyes may have been a bit skewed&period; There are multiple paths and a nice branching storyline in the game when you begin to find out more about yourself you ask yourself questions&comma; these questions determine which chapter you will head off to&period; Seeing as the game is very short&comma; it is nice to see that I can go back and see what I missed in poor Renee&&num;8217&semi;s life&period; I will warn you that there is almost a game ending bug on the way to Chapter 12&period; You have to follow something and as you do you get cut off by the environment&comma; I researched this and found that it also happened on the Steam version&period; I had to reset to the beginning of Chapter 12 quite a few times until I tricked the bug and continued on through the level&period; Hopefully&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;ll work for you&comma; but just reset and you should be fine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;126366" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-126366" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-126366" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;06&sol;10020416&sol;3244148-image10&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"360" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-126366" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>The Town of Light<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; LKA&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>I enjoyed my short time with this title&comma; I honestly didn&&num;8217&semi;t think that I would beat it in two sittings&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m glad that there are branching paths for me to enjoy&comma; but I wish there was more meat to this game&period; Finding the patches of Renee&&num;8217&semi;s memory was quite enjoyable&comma; and I like that I had to work for it a bit&comma; I could&&num;8217&semi;ve used a bit more direction at some points though&period; If you are a fan of history&comma; a fan of thrillers or a fan of survival horror you should absolutely give this title a good look&period; I was worried at first as I roamed the empty halls but soon my mind began to wrap itself around what was happening and it was pretty terrifying&period; Not jump scare terrifying but terrifying in the fact that people actually went through all this due to the fact that medical science had yet to understand the human mind&period; Zombies&comma; vampires&comma; that isn&&num;8217&semi;t frightening&comma; but being trapped in your own mind with antiquated medical help&comma; that is truly terrifying&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;"><strong>A Playstation 4 Review Copy of The Town of Light was provided by LKA for the purpose of this review&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;