![]() ![]() Unfortunately, jobs are rare for good composers in France, he is now trying his luck in San Francisco. He later worked on Alone in the Dark (2008) with The Mystery of Bulgerian Voices. Even better, the two soundtracks are downloadable on his website, so you don’t have to suffer through “the aftermath”. Olivier Derivière has surpassed himself offering a even better soundtrack, with longer tracks. The only redeeming quality of ObsCure II is its music, which is still fantastic. The game even continues for one hour after the staff credits have rolled to offer you a final showdown with Kenny. Hydravision took the criticism about the length of the first Obscure at heart, since the sequel is twice as long. An even bigger problem is that usually you will need to perform many actions near the checkpoints, meaning that you need to choose between risking to lose your progress or risking to restart after every subsequent action. Disguised as gigantic and grotesque purple flowers, the save points can only be used once. The most infuriating feature of ObsCure II is probably the save system. To unlock them, you’ll need to look for three well-hidden small keys in each zone. Though most of the weapons are locked inside cartoony huge boxes strewn through the game. Even though the flashlight disappeared, the arsenal itself became pretty gigantic. The last straw is probably the final boss, who must be dealt with while lock-picking an electric generator. It would have helped the game to stand up to its legacy, but unfortunately, most of the minigames must be performed while being attacked by endless waves of monsters. Making the game more scripted allowed Hydravision to offer more variety in the gameplay: hacking, climbing, nice cooperative puzzles. The game is streamlined and broken down into various segments, forcing you to use a specific team, but at least the inventory is transferred each time. Strangely enough, it’s much more difficult than the first one and requires even more item management, and of course, a lot of running away. Furthermore, the whole light gimmick has been stripped out, turning the game in a classic survival-horror. It also implies that no one can die, because Hydravision has telegraphed the game very carefully. Even when it does, you will need a specific team to progress. The first disappointment is that, for most of the game, ObsCure II doesn’t allow you to choose your characters. He replaces Kenny as the force of nature.Īmy Brookes is the smart & beautiful blonde. He can climb and reach higher grounds easily. Unfortunately, he isn’t able to cope with his disease and turns into a monster.Ĭorey Wilde is a skater and a full time daredevil. Traumatized by his own stupidity, Kenny ended up in college. Unlike Shannon, he needs daily medication to survive. Traumatized by school, Stan spent some time in prison and is now working as a delivery boy. Being accustomed to the plant disease, she can absorb “black auras”, magic walls blocking certain paths. Obviously traumatized by the events of Leafmore High, Shannon still doesn’t have any taste in clothing. The gallery of characters has changed a little bit, for the worse: Awkward as hell, the dialogue doesn’t make much sense, thanks to a terrible translation, and the characters changing moods from line to line don’t really help either. It involves rape and a whole sort of gory details that you might want to avoid. The plot is awful, but not in a good way. To make things worse, Kenny quickly suffers from treatment withdrawal, turning in a huge abomination and therefore becoming the nemesis of the players. While going to a fraternity party, Kenny and the new crew discover that black spores actually transform everyone into monsters. Based upon strange growing plants, the drug induces nightmares-filled hallucinations. On the campus, a new drug seems to be a killer among students. But surviving the plant monsters wasn’t enough, as all of the heroes were infected with the plant’s spores, forcing them to take a special treatment every day to avoid side effects, like, for example, turning into a giant monster. Two years after the events of Leafmore High, our brilliant protagonists made it to the nearby Fallcreek College. It is also worth underlining that the PSP port is excellent and allows you to play two players mode with the ad-hoc system, while the Wii version includes some bonus animatics. The PC port is probably the best version, as the higher resolution is far less fuzzy. It was published on the PC, PlayStation 2, Wii and PSP. And while the first game is decent, its sequel is a complete trainwreck. A few years later, Microïds felt lucky and gave the green light for a second ObsCure in 2007, smartly called ObsCure II… at least in Europe, as it was retitled ObsCure: The Aftermath in the United States. ![]()
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