1/30/2024 0 Comments The medium reviewYou spend the entirety of The Medium at this Niwa hotel and the otherworld equivalent, trying to figure out what happened and why it was so quickly abandoned. If there’s anything that Bloober should take away from this game for a sequel, make more sequences in this otherworld. And the visuals of the few people you do meet in this realm are masterful works of art themselves. Beautiful and intricate corridors of bone in yellow brown hues. I was blown away at how accurately and faithfully they’d captured the style of Polish painter Zdzisław Beksiński. About what you’d expect from a run down hotel. The real world areas of the game are fine. Visually, The Medium is truly incredible. Or perhaps it was so enthralling I just really want more. The ending left a bit to be desired, but I imagine it’s a setup for a sequel. I will say that there were only like four characters in the game that you interact with, but each of them are pulled off well. The lore behind what happened at Niwa was interesting, with the snippets of story keeping me engaged throughout. The narrative of The Medium was one of the best parts of the game. When she gets an urgent and mysterious call for help, she heads immediately for the abandoned government facility (it’s a resort, not like a secret evil lair) of Niwa. The game begins with her finishing the setup for the burial of her adoptive father. Growing up with a connection to some kind of nightmarish world of the dead has left her an outsider, which I much prefer to her in front of a crystal ball doing seances for money. As the name suggests, she is a psychic medium. The Medium follows the story of Marianne. Although I don’t think it quite lived up to my hopes, The Medium was still an awesome horror experience. This one is not only in the third-person, but frequently it is third-person x2. The Medium is a departure from Bloober Team’s traditional style of first-person horror games. Probably unwise to get my expectations so high, but in spite of that, the game was still great. Basically, I thought this was going to be Silent Hill. My assumption was that The Medium was a third-person survival horror in a strange and terrifying otherworld. This was certainly a game I was looking forward to playing. The Medium Review – Making Beksinski the New Lovecraft
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