The lengthy tutorial section shows how you can use limited slow-motion and astral projection (your spirit leaving your body to invisibly observe and affect the world) can be used in creative and interesting puzzles – but that never happens. Ian’s powers give Past Cure’s story an extra sci-fi element, but they are criminally underused. Minigames like a sliding block puzzle offer an enjoyable challenge but are oddly introduced and then promptly abandoned, all within the stealthy nightmare level in one of the later chapters. In one chapter you’re escaping a great-looking nightmare world and its waves of ceramic humanoids the next you’re running, guns blazing, through a brightly lit and repetitious parking garage. In a game that clearly wants to present itself as cinematic (the distracting black bars at the top and bottom of the screen make that obvious) such poor acting is pretty damning.Level design is just as disjointed and uneven as the story. And it’s not even as if there are other good performances to make him look bad by comparison – everyone in the cast is fairly monotone – but the protagonist is by far the guiltiest. It doesn’t matter if he is calmly speaking on the phone, getting choked out, or running for his life – almost every line is delivered in the same tone. “Based on the flat, emotionless voice acting, Ian doesn’t care much either.

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