Luto Review – The Spirit of PT Lives in This Unpredictable Ghost Story

After hideo kojima Silent Mountain As a project, it surfaced, leaving the free emotion PT PT as the only concrete work related to the Konami Revival Project, which inspired a series of PT parodies. This trend has been going on for years and can still be seen today. When Ghosts poked the head out of the script moment, focusing on the residential corridors that revolve around loops, many creators liked PT but often drew the wrong lessons from the legendary playable trailer. At first glance, Cooked It's the latest news from PT Wannabes, but it soon stands out as a particularly unpredictable and unconventional horror story.

In Luto, you play a role that gets stuck in emotional ruts and literal loops. The protagonist Sam wakes up into a smashed bathroom mirror and drives into the L-shaped corridor, passes through some locked doors, walks down the stairs, and then goes out of the front door. The next day, Sam awakens a smashed bathroom mirror, exits into the L-shaped corridor, passes through some locked doors, walks down the stairs, and then walks out of the front door. The next day – OK, you get it. But where many games struggle to distance themselves from Kojima’s original blueprint, Luto takes the core of the idea and extends it in creative, sometimes fantastic ways.

I had originally performed a demonstration in Luto a few years ago and I was surprised to hear a narrator associated with this horror story. An almost exhilarating British voice gives the game a more Stanley allegorical feel, which only becomes more real when the narrator seems to comment on my reactive and near-friendly narrator. I hated this game at first. The floors in the empty house creaked, once so creepy in the presentation, are now overwhelmed by a narrator who seems to have given me the story. Why did they use this chat box to destroy the tension?

However, the narrator's inclusion can be rewarded soon as his character serves the game's genre-bending meta-man in a way that is ultimately crucial and fun. As Sam's loop starts to disband, the narrator plays a very different character – I won't spoil here – the game becomes a lot of Not only the circulation corridor, but also goes beyond many comparisons with PT

Despite so many PT clones seem interested in quitting their ghost story, which is largely a typical haunted house environment that hits the traditional haunted house story beat, Luto captures the most important quality of PT: its weirdness. Luto regularly tries types, performances, and emotions. Sometimes it speaks directly to the player in an incomprehensible way, although the story is mostly fused before the credits roll.

Exploring Sam's non-European home eventually gives way to the destruction of the game's visual style, a radical wink at the camera, and in one of my favorite moments – a full introduction to Romero's seminal zombie film Night of the Living Dead, the game will explain it to you, which will keep you from watching in full. The corridor becomes a cave in the desert, and the safe space crashes like bad code in the guts of the game and presents it all to you, the players, to make you wonder what scripts are and what real bugs are. Thankfully, the game doesn't seem to be an off-roader, and everything I see on PC, no matter how weird or clumsy it is, is intentional. Just like I liken the game to PT, the entire six or so games here end up being closer to Mark Z. Danielewski’s Leass House of Least, a form of experiment that is hard to describe and cannot be spoiled. Luto Psycho Mantis I immediately put the controller down and text the boss. For debut games from a small independent studio, Luto Take take the Swings is huge.

Despite its impressive form, some of its qualities are less dazzling. The blunt puzzle, unlike what you see in the classic Resident Evil, sometimes requires a stunning look. My biggest pain with the game is these puzzles that sometimes slow me down to the point where it once became frustrating. I remember an early puzzle that I had to be in someone (or something) Crashed into Sam's front door. At first, the echoes of the high ceiling rooms were daunting, but after five to 10 minutes of trying to solve the puzzle, they were just background noises that I was bothered with. They never go through the door, so the audio effect withered in minutes.

Fortunately, I found Luto's early puzzles so hard to parse, that they helped me into the top space of thinking out of the box, and the puzzles later became easier once I could speak in the language of the game. When Luto asked me to solve a phone number, this puzzle was an additional layer of difficulty that actually changed the shape during the release of the pre-drawn review – I ended up understanding that I needed to use everything in the inventory to determine the missing number. Because games usually limit themselves to a small space at a time, at least know that I have exhausted the available physical space and the answer is even in my pocket.

Luto was primarily dedicated to its subject and ultimate message, and in the early days, Luto was not often frightening. Like many horror adventure games, it’s obvious that most of the things you face when it comes to fear are on track. Obviously, the game is not built in any combat or stealth elements, so it meets the roaming spirit of the house, which I have traditionally compared to a haunted house. They may scare you, but once you realize they will never catch you or hurt you, it may be hard to pause your suspicion, or at least it is always my feeling. Thankfully, even knowing this, its troubles are creepy, so when they don't scare me, they get immersed in me.

Luto does bet on all this in the last scene, and for good reason: the last third of this game is different from anything I've played, horror or not. Although some games become so obsessed with metaphor that it can be dazzling to try to keep up with its message at times, I still thought I had played something special, destined to be something classic of the cult. Games like Luto are hard to praise in detail because they are very useful and should not be explained. It should be for yourself. I'm trying to talk about the best aspects of the game, and I hope it's not clear that the game isn't without problems either. I hope some people can get rid of Luto's head scratching and wonder what it means, some of which are undoubtedly the fault of the game.

As a horror obsession, I hope others like me push the game’s frustrating puzzles and intensive plots to see Luto’s best parts as they are numerous and memorable. This is the first project of Break Bird Games, which makes me very excited to see where the team goes from here. I often wonder if PT will be a complete game. We will never be sure, but we are lucky to be like Luto.