Only eight episodes long, split into three short chapters, this game is agonisingly short of what it costs to buy. By far the most challenging episode of the game for me, I found myself caught by the witch countless times as I raced through the floors of her house to escape her clutches. Some are downright cowardly! My favourite part of the plot was definitely the Witch’s House. But don’t be fooled by appearances, the ghosts and monsters in this game aren’t all malicious. As you walk across the 2D side-scrolling landscape, ghosts appear to watch you from behind the trees before vanishing behind the trunks again. While this game doesn’t have jump scares and its sound effects are more annoying than frightening, the sense you are being watched pervades the title. Thematically, Creepy Tale relies less on horror tropes and more on making the player feel uneasy.
#Creepy tale 2 review trial#
Whilst some puzzles were simply trial and error, I was seriously stumped at some of these small puzzles in this creepy game. Whilst being captured by the various enemy monsters in the games does little to impede progress, it can be quite a rush to have to time your puzzle solving pursuits against hiding from creatures. This game not only forces you to be clever, but forces you to do so under threat of capture. Ranging from using mushrooms as bait to innovative use of a fishing rod, Creepy Tale takes away the comforts of traditional puzzlers. This title uses compressed item-finding quests in each ‘episode’ to help you solve certain issues within the worlds to progress. There aren’t many puzzles in the traditional sense of the word in Creepy Tale. As you go deeper into the forest and uncover its secrets, you face more and more danger as you come closer to apprehending the monsters who took your brother away. Instead, you must hide and think of unusual solutions for the unusual and unsettling puzzles of Creepy Tale that accompany the fantasy-horror themes. Creepy Tale uses the defenceless hero trope, as you cannot attack any of the creatures.
As you try to find and save your brother, you will encounter various challenges and creatures ranging from timid to terrifying. You begin Creepy Tale walking through the forest with your brother, collecting mushrooms, when your brother is kidnapped by strange monsters. Creepy Tale is a 2D puzzle adventure that doesn’t play by ordinary puzzle rules. It’s difficult to find good, detailed puzzle games that stand out from all the shovelware.
#Creepy tale 2 review full#
With the Switch store so full of indie puzzle games, it’s hard to know what to buy and what to try out.
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