by Dipping people into molten bronze and trying to summon dark spirits just never works out. Welcome to Kraven Manor.
I think this game proves that I just don’t like horror games. Much like Amnesia, this game creates a great mood. I think this game even one-ups Amnesia in terms of the puzzles – I didn’t feel like they were insultingly easy or just reliant on you being scared of them. Not only that, there is a very cool feature which lets you move around rooms of the manor. At the center table, you put pieces of the manor in different locations to enter new areas and unlock other areas by finding the right room piece within the already accessible rooms.
That’s a cool concept, and you can even see how many rooms you expect to find. The trouble is that while I like playing puzzle games and I like playing games with horror elements, I don’t like them together. In these games, if you don’t immediately see the solution there’s either no real danger to begin with or you die almost immediately. That’s a problem unique to games since books, movies, and television just don’t let you have direct control over the protagonist’s actions. Still, Kraven Manor is a good (though apparently short) game – deserving of Tier Two. Just because I’m not a horror game guy doesn’t mean everybody else isn’t.