Lust from beyond m edition review12/17/2023 But unfortunately the game committed one of (I think) the big sins of game design when it had scenario in which an object that you would clearly need later is sitting very clearly, standing out as an object clearly intended to be used and yet it can’t be accessed until you do something else… in this case, pick up and read a note that is only a short distance from the object. The core concept of the game is you need to sneak around to find items to advance the story… occasionally this will involve avoiding enemies… other times it simply involves exploring to find Item A to use with Item/location B. I’ll be up front and say I’m not a fan of survival horror (I have been pleasantly surprised by titles in the past… but it’s rare). Gameplay is an area that I find a bit lacking. There’s almost a Lynchian/Cronenburg feel to some of the game. It’s not all bad… there are elements to it that seem like they could work quite well if fleshed out more or refined somewhat. It doesn’t help when the protagonist is portrayed as a seemingly uncaring, cruddy person… that is further exacerbated by dialogue that is pretty shoddy at best and a story that seems a bit clunky in parts. This does lead me to the story… it’s not great. As the partner of someone who has dealt with sexual assault and even just as someone who (at times) is sensitive to others feelings… I found this scene particularly hard to experience. SEMI SPOILER/TRIGGER Early on there is a scene in which you have sex with your partner… but it quickly turns sinister when she asks you to slow and instead you go faster… she ends up pleading with you to stop and you seem to completely ignore her. The game does point out that people may be offended by the game and offers a censored version… but I don’t recall it ever warning of possible triggering elements and yet that is exactly what it has, quite early in the game. Giger’s biomechanoid artwork (obviously the design of Alien but the scenery here shares more similarity than with his work on the interior of the Alien ship rather than the creature itself. As far as the artistic inspiration, I was not disappointed, even just a quick look at some of the preview images will bring to mind a lot of H.R. I was drawn to this primarily due to the stated influences of Lovecraft, Giger and Beksinski (and the potential for erotic elements as well). There is sexual material here… but it is arguably far more focused on horror to the extent that at least some of the sexual material is itself quite horrible. Lust from Beyond somewhat follows in those footsteps. All anyone has to do to see how common sex and horror/violence is as a marketed combination is look at any horror movie from the 1980’s. Sex tends to be packaged with lots of things to get sales… hence the saying “sex sells”.
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