This is a major missed opportunity, as not only does narration do much of the heavy lifting when it comes to telling the story, but there are some quite gory aspects to what happens at certain points throughout the game. When paired with some of the events on screen, this does come across as a little jarring. In standard British fashion, I quickly sacked that off and changed it to English to avoid having to read every single line of dialogue, and I must say that the English narration doesn’t seem to convey the same level of urgency or imbue Giulia with as much personality as the Italian one does, instead, it comes off as a dry and devoid of emotion. After discovering her sister drowned in the lake, Giulia assumes the identity of her sister Martha and the game goes from there in what is one of the strangest decisions I have ever encountered in a video game, but more on that a little later.īy default the audio narration is set to Italian, which I admit did have a slightly more immersive effect on me than I originally thought it would. Although aspects of its story are interesting, overall it is a fairly standard horror game. In a nutshell, Martha is Dead is driven forward mainly by its narrative, and from the start, it didn’t really grip me in ways that it really should. Did I feel uncomfortable? At times, yes, but is this enough for the game to warrant censorship? I’m a little conflicted on that one. Yes, there are gory sequences, but none more outlandish or brutal than a few other games I have played. After six hours of play and watching the credits roll, I didn’t know what all the fuss was about. There is no such thing as bad publicity, or so the saying goes, and with that in mind, the developers at LKA must have been rubbing their hands together.
Martha is Dead went from a game on the cusp of release that most of us had never heard of to a game horror fans could not wait to play almost overnight. Such a decision kicked up quite the hornet’s nest, and it is this, not the dark and twisted story or the narrative-driven gameplay, that thrust Martha is Dead into the spotlight. Availability: PSN, Microsoft Store, Steam, Retailer ( Amazon UK/ Amazon USA)
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