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He may be a seemingly weak psychologist, but he dispatches mutated and mad people without batting an eye. Albert's propensity for ravaging his enemies doesn't add to the tension, either. Sometimes overturning a box or having noises down the hallway result in no confrontation works far better than having enemies predictably erupt from the shadows in every room.

If films and other horror games have taught me anything, the key to making tension and scaring the audience lies in knowing when to pull a punch, something Afterfall basically never does. Some may look different, sure, but they'll still run straight at you and present next to no challenge on Medium difficulty. Only it can't capitalize on the momentum it builds early on, instead squandering it with room after room of the same foe. At first it succeeds, with dark environments that make good use of lighting effects and some eerie sound effects that make the early enemy appearances intense.

The trite ending clears up some of the more bizarre plot points, but it would have been nice if those moments were originally presented in a way where Albert acknowledges his own mental issues and combats them, creating drama instead of maddening confusion.ДЄs a self-proclaimed horror title, Intoxicate wants Afterfall to scare its audience. Albert's insanity seems like an accidental result of, it poor story telling rather than clever use of narrative devices to convey his deteriorating mental state. Story is delivered through awkward cut-scenes that rarely make sense, leaving me wondering why Albert cares about anyone, and unsure why he's doing what he's doing. Of course the underground society erupts into chaos as an epidemic of apparent madness sets in, and it's up to protagonist Albert Tokaj to try and stop it and survive. Select groups of Polish citizens were put into shelters, where they've been living for years and dealing with 'Confinement Syndrome,' a mental illness that comes from being cooped up. As the developer's website attests, 'the story and the idea for the universe were conceived within the minds of dozens of people working remotely and refining the details over internet message boards.' Like a person with multiple personalities, an amalgamation of ideas and half-cocked alternate history ideas formed the universe of Afterfall, where World War II ended in a shaky peace treaty and, invariably, a world-ending nuclear apocalypse. The befuddled mess that is Afterfall's story feels like the byproduct of a writer stricken with psychosis. It's likely just as boring, nonsensical, repetitious and frustrating as it drags on pointlessly. The reality of a severe mental disorder is probably more akin to Afterfall: Insanity, a bad survival-horror game from indie developer Intoxicate Games. Insanity, in these scenes, looks rather liberating and exciting, like a place where you have no idea what will happen next.

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No, I'm not looking to get myself placed in a padded room and pumped full of meds, but the freedom their characters have to just do, say or be anything they want moment to moment sounds refreshing to me. Brad Pitt's portrayal of a schizophrenic in 12 Monkeys and he and his counterpart Edward Norton's take on multiple personality disorder in Fight Club make me a bit envious. I find that I sometimes romanticize insanity.

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