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Dark Seed II

Well, to wrap things up, if anyone enjoys playing a challenging horror game, this is for you. If you don't enjoy getting nightmares, this game is not for you. Personally, I found this game very enjoyable, and I hope you will too. Even though I figure it deserves more, I will only give this game a 4 because of an annoying maze puzzle in the carnival, one which I DID NOT enjoy. But you may feel differently about it, so download this evil scary game, and give it a good play.

The real fun of this game isn't in the find-and-use adventure mechanics, which are still pretty standard, but in the sheer nasty-mindedness of it: some of the psychological sequences are certain to give the sensitive gamer nightmares; the music is high-quality and spooky; creepy innuendoes abound (such as the jerk-hole medical examiner who can be seen furiously making out with an assistant behind the pebbled glass in the morgue is a good example); anybody who fancied Blue Velvet a good first-date movie should have a real ball with DSII.

But Seed newbies will grow impatient with the wanderings necessary to decipher the game's cryptic puzzles, and the atrocious acting (the lead character whines more than a fine-tuned Harley) does little to draw you in- to the story. The clever parallels and interconnectivity of the Dark World to the Normal World is a step in the right direction, but it's not enough to separate this Seed from the chaff.

Det finns betydligt intressantare sätt att avnjuta Gigers konst.

On the whole, the dullness of the normal world takes the upper hand when it comes to what this game is usually remembered for. With no redeeming gameplay to speak of, nothing's saving Dark Seed II from total mediocrity.