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• gamedeal user

  Oct 8, 2021

  Incoherent, annoying, broken, insufferable. The game that killed the series. I loved the first obscure, it was a perfect blend of a cheesy B-movie narrative, gruesome body horror, and amusing teenage slasher movie stereotype characters set in a shady high school of all places. It's gameplay was simple but fun, the story was pretty cool, the monsters were scary. it was a pretty good game that was rather unappreciated. I was sad that it never got too big of a cult following. with that in mind, I was hoping for the second game to show some improvement or at least deliver more of the same. Boy was I wrong. first off, lets get the biggest problem out of the way first. In my version at least, the Tree Lenny boss is unbeatable due to a glitch which makes it impossible to cut it's roots with the chainsaw, which is required for you to defeat it. I basically had to slog through this entire dumpster fire of a game just to get stuck on the stupid tree and had to look up the conclusion on youtube. If you don't have this problem, good for you, but the game's still absolute trash due to these next reasons. The gameplay sucks. the camera sensitivity is off the charts, simply doing minor mouse movements throws it off in wild directions, and the combat is painfully underdeveloped and boring. yeah yeah i know it's third person tank controls but even tank controls don't make you motion sick. The monsters (who are, I admit, still have pretty cool designs, basically the only high mark i can give this game) are basically no threat at all, your characters are like kryptonians with the amount of health they have and even the 800 P O U N D B E H E M O T H S go down from a few whacks with a hockey paddle while standing completely still. Speaking of the characters, lets get to them shall we. gone are the charming slasher movie archetypes of the original obscure, in their place are a bunch of whiny brats that you almost want the monsters to tear into bloody chunks. a few characters from the previous game return, but their personalities are so changed they might as well be different people entirely. they make decisions completely out of character as well. Their D-list voice actors did a terrible job (especially the one for COREY) and their 3d models are so bad that they look like they are getting mutated from the Mortifilia as well. They also got rid of permadeath which means you its impossible to grant any of these stupid kids the sweet release of death and finish the game without them. the plot's completely incoherent as well. something about some secret science fraternity that wants to use Herb and Lenny Friedman's monster plant for world domination or evolving the human race or something, also Kenny becomes a villain for some reason I don't know. Also somehow Lenny survived being BURNED TO ASHES BY THE FREAKING SUN in the last game and is taken care of by his leatherface-like child. but Stan's voice actor slips up and says its Herbert, its like the devs never played the first game. Overall, Obscure 2 is a broken, boring, frustrating, and downright annoying chore of a game that I regret spending 9 hours of my life on. Please don't make the same mistake I did, give this lazy cashgrab a hard pass and just play the first Obscure again. there are much better games to spend your time on.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 15, 2014

  Pretty good game, just like the first one. Less amount of weapons, which was something good, no longer having to toggle between 3 handguns or taping flashlights to all of them since you now carry one. Nice acting, decent story, hopefully someday another Obscure will appear.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 5, 2022

  i have a great friendship with someone and he is my coop partner and with many games and adventures ... this game made our friendship gets so much better ! its sad there is no third part of this game , i recommend this game if you dont mind old games and if you have the right person to play with ...
• gamedeal user

  Jul 10, 2014

  Combine a storyline more loopy and incoherent than almost every Japanese anime ever made, a cumbersome real-time item-choosing system guaranteed to make you use those medkits even faster, a save system which ensures you'll have to waste countless minutes at a time getting back to the bit which killed you in the first place, the occasional obstructive "camera angle" almost deliberately designed to fuck you six-ways-to-Sunday, and some of the shittiest boss fights in all of video game history...and what do you have? Well, oddly enough, a mostly enjoyable and worthwhile gaming experience...but ONLY if you've already played several dozen other post-Resident Evil third-person "survival horror" games, and are so addicted to such curiosities that you'll endure almost any level of punishment in search of that next elusive "fix". I recently played and wrote a review of the first Obscure in which I declared it a "pleasant surprise", or words to roughly that effect. Given that I had slightly higher expectations of this one in the wake of its more-than-serviceable predecessor, I wouldn't say that I'm "disappointed" so much as a little bewildered at just how nutty and, well, borderline incompetent this one so often gets. Don't get me wrong: there's a lot of REALLY GOOD IDEAS here. One improvement it arguably makes over the original are the very distinct "special abilities" which each character has, all of which you will at some point REQUIRE to make progress through the game (as opposed to the "vaguely-useful-but-mostly-inessential" abilities evidenced by most of the characters in Obscure 1). To this effect, much of the puzzle-solving in this game is actually quite clever (though asking the player to pick a tricky lock puzzle in the midst of the climactic boss fight while a monster clobbers you from the side was perhaps pushing the friendship a little)! And the learning curve applied to these mini game-within-a-games is mostly realistic and achievable, even for a certifiable doofus such as I. The scenery is also frequently interesting and varied. Perhaps a little TOO varied for realistic geography purposes, but never mind (just think of it like one of those epic sword-and-sorcery fantasy worlds where a blazingly hot desert and an icy wasteland are just a hop, skip and a jump away from each other...apparently suburban high schools and spooky, near-desolate islands inhabited by in-bred Texas Chainsaw rejects do much the same thing). It's also a game with lots of "personality", not least of all within the characters themselves. Plenty of entertaining banter and carry-on whilst the gameplay continues unabated, giving it a convincingly "cinematic" feel and making you actually "care" a little more for the fate of said characters than your average paper cut-out video game personas (off the top of my head, the Walking Dead and Left 4 Dead games are about the only other horror titles so earnestly devoted to giving their protagonists more than two dimensions). Look, it's pretty clear by now that I have a certain fondness for these games, even if this one in particular infuriated me almost to the point of electronic pulpification. Mostly I'm just relieved there was never an Obscure 3, 'cause you know that I'd feel obliged to play it, and judging by the quality arc this series has evidenced thus far, it would probably be almost intolerably "bad". ALMOST. In the tradition of the best "trashy" horror films, let's just chalk this one up as a "guilty pleasure"...even if the "pleasure" parts only seem to come in spurts. Verdict: 8/10.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 30, 2022

  If you are going to buy this to play on Windows 10... dont even bother. It has a ton of issues, anything resolutions other than 800X600 will pillarbox, so you are stuck with a tiny one. And dont even try any of the many fixes people posted online, they will just make the game not boot at all.The mouse cursor is unused and wont go away (you dont need it for anything in the game) which helps makes the next problem even worse... the camera is all over the place, and it does not follow the mouse cursor making it hard and confusing to try and wrestle the camera. You can then try and plug in a controller, which would in theory give you better controls, only to find out this game will crash because of that, so technically there is no controller support. But lets just say you can put with all this bs.. is the game itself any good? Well its yet another RE clone like the first one, however this time around the combat is clunky, you will get hit after each encounter, and the game is super stingy with health and ammo, hell for the last boss, the game takes away all the items you may have stock piled, and just gives you a specific amount of each just before it, the game is also stingy with saves, you can only save at specific spots, and you can only save at those spots a single time. Granted the first game also had limited saves, but you could strategically choose when to use them.This stuff does not make the game "challenging" or "fun"... it just makes it aggravating. I honestly had to turn on cheats temporarily at one point, because the game locked me in a situation where I had to do a long sequence of events, followed by a boss, with no way of getting health items and no saves in between. I originally played this game a few years back, have no idea how I put up with it and beat it then... but this time around, I just dont have the patience. For the characters, a few of them come back, they are just as dumb as ever, however this time around the hot blonde is now a hot goth chick, so thats cool. But unlike the first game, you cant choose your favorite characters and try to survive as them (keeping the others as "backup lives") in this game, you will be forced to play as certain characters, even in the areas where the whole crew is together, you will need to bring specific characters to use their specific skills... and no one has a skill that lets you know if an area still has items unlike the first game. Gone is also the whole gimmick of using light to fight enemies, every fight will just be you frantically spamming melee/gun and hope you dont take too many hits. I know this game has a cult following, and personally I think the whole 90s horror survival horror theme is cool, but in retrospect, it is just not a fun game and neither is its even more obcure sequel "Final Exam".
• |NagaTo|

  Oct 8, 2022

  One of the best old game for 2 players local coop
• Ezilious

  Nov 26, 2022

  If i become a millionaire i'm buying the rights to this and making a 3rd obscure. unfortunately that will never happen :')
• gamedeal user

  Jun 13, 2023

  🏞️ - GRAPHICS | VISUALS 🔲 - Stunning ! ✅ - Good. 🔲 - Alright. 🔲 - Bad. 🔲 - My Eyes ! They BURN ! Note: For a PS2 game that came out in 2007 it looks Solid. The only thing that i hate is the character portraits, they look like Pre-Rendered Pictures from P*rn Games if u know what i mean. 📋 - STORY | PLOT 🔲 - Amazing ! 🔲 - Good. 🔲 - Standard. ✅ - Bad. 🔲 - Nonesense ! Note: If you have played the original game, shit ain't making sense. 🔊 - WRITING | DIALOG 🔲 - Excellent ! 🔲 - Good. 🔲 - Uninspired. ✅ - Bad. 🔲 - Awfull ! Note: Some of the most cringe conversations between characters and random characters nearby, characters are bland and forgettable and lots of plot holes as well as Inconsistencies within the worlds rules. 📀 - GAMEPLAY | GAME MECHANICS 🔲 - Fantastic ! ✅ - Good. 🔲 - Mediocre. 🔲 - Bad. 🔲 - Physically Painful ! Note: Solid Nothing Wrong with it. 📈 - LEVEL DESIGN | GAME MAPPING 🔲 - Phenomenal ! 🔲 - Good. ✅ - Generic. 🔲 - Bad. 🔲 - Headache Inducing ! 🎧 - SOUNTRACK | SOUND DESIGN ✅ - Eargasm ! 🔲 - Good. 🔲 - Bland. 🔲 - Bad. 🔲 - Earrape ! Note: Composer came back and Smashed it again like in the 1st Game. 🕙 - LENGTH | PLAYTIME 🔲 - Extremely Long ! 🔲 - Long. ✅ - Average Length. 🔲 - Short. 🔲 - Painfully Short ! 💀 - DIFFICULTY | SKILL CEILING 🔲 - Very Difficult ! 🔲 - Hard. ✅ - Normal. 🔲 - Easy. 🔲 - Mindlessly Easy ! Note: This section of the Review is based on my Experience with the Game, can immensely differ for other players. 💗 - ENJOYMENT | ENTERTAINMENT VALUE 🔲 - Absolutely Loved It ! ✅ - Fun Times. 🔲 - Didn't Love It Nor Hate It. 🔲 - No Thank You ! 🔲 - F*cking Hated It ! Note: This section of the Review is a Personal and Bias Opinion, can immensely differ for other players. Note: This one ain't the best game ever but atleast it's intertaining and paced pretty well. ⛔ - BUGS | GLITCHES 🔲 - Almost None, If none. ✅ - A Handful. 🔲 - A Bunch. 🔲 - Danger Zone ! 🔲 - Unplayable ! ♻️ - CONTROLS | BUTTON MAPPING ✅ - Comfortable Controls. 🔲 - Some Tweaking & Remapping Needed. 🔲 - Poorly Designed Controls. Note: Played it on a Controller and had to switch a couple buttons in order to have a better expirience, nothing major though. 🎲 - REPLAYABILITY | REPLAY VALUE 🔲 - High Replay Value. 🔲 - Replayable. ✅ - Once Is Enough. 🏆 - GAME PERFORMANCE | STABILITY ✅ - Hella Smooth ! 🔲 - Some Performance Issues. 🔲 - Runs Like Sh*t ! Note: No Crashes, No FPS Drops, No Stuttering. 🔧 - TWEAKING | ANY FIXING NEEDED 🔲 - No need for Fixes, It's perfectly playable without any Issues. ✅ - Needs some Fixing. 🔲 - Has to be Fixed, can't play it like it is. Note: This section of the Review is based on my preferences, can immensely differ for other players. Note: Needs a widescreen Fix that doesn't exist as of this review, sadly. 📈 - COST | PRICE 🔲 - Worth Paying Full Price. ✅ - Wait for it to go On Sale. 🔲 - You don't even want this as a Gift. 💯 - OVERALL | VERDICT 🔲 - 🔟 - Outstanding. 🔲 - 9️⃣ - Amazing. 🔲 - 8️⃣ - Great. 🔲 - 7️⃣ - Decent. ✅ - 6️⃣ - Alright. 🔲 - 5️⃣ - Average. 🔲 - 4️⃣ - Terrible. 🔲 - 3️⃣ - Awful. 🔲 - 2️⃣ - Atrocious. 🔲 - 1️⃣ - Abominable.
• Solveig

  Aug 9, 2023

  a classic game,masterpiece,the franchise reminds me of the faculty 1998,a horror movie
• gamedeal user

  Mar 25, 2015

  It's hard to decide where to start with this one. But I'll start by saying that Obscure: The Aftermath was one hell of a good game and deserves a lot more than the 59 rating it received on Metacritic. This is truly a unique game that has never really been done before. A mix of Resident Evil and Silent Hill with a combat system that isn't ass. (Not saying RE and SH's combat systems are ass but it's not fluid and it's just tricky mostly, coming from a huge fan of both series.). Obscure gives you a mix of a good combat system that's fluid and like a classic survival horror having to stop to reload or swing your melee weapon and pretty good co-op gameplay, one of the only true survival horror games that has co-op and it was indeed creepy, co-op doesn't make a game less scary. [h1]Pros:[/h1] +Good looking for it's age, not super dated. +Great co-op and gameplay mechanics/puzzles, not too hard, not too simple. +Intriguing story that you'll want to know more about and hope for a third game, likable characters although they are pretty cliche. Stoner, techie, vixen, jock, comedian and goth. +Nice control scheme, X360 controller support with button prompts and vibration. +Practical Achievements. +Mostly bug free and stable. +Creature designs. +Fun boss fights. +Just the perfect difficulty. [h1]Cons:[/h1] -Voice acting is hit and miss. -Pre-rendered cutscenes are pretty badly lip synced at times or are in general not very good looking and often times in-game cutscenes are better. -No widescreen support at all, resolution options are there but the game is letterboxed at 4:3 with side borders. -Camera can sometimes be weird, though in co-op each player can focus the camera on themselves hitting the right trigger in case they get stuck on a creature or need to have each player in a different location. -Some bosses can continuously hit you if you get smacked into the perfect position and some boss fights have un-dodgeable moves, no warm-up animations or signs they'll be using their OP move that can't be dodged but most boss fights aren't super difficult. [h1]Other Thoughts:[/h1] Now I know you must be thinking: "Wow, that's a lot of cons...sounds like a pain in the ass..." well the positives outweigh the cons by a huge margin and honestly the camera isn't that bad and the lip-syncing/hit and miss VA work is understandable for a French indie developer title that released on multiple platforms in 2007, honestly the most annoying aspect of this game is the lack of widescreen support that was available on the PSP version which I had but didn't get the chance to play. I'd highly recommend this game, specially for someone who just wants a creepy game in general with a good story or someone looking for GOOD scary co-op fun. That game is pretty short but felt almost perfect in length for me and you may need to play it twice to unlock all achievements, I missed one small key so I'll probably blow back through it again. I did not play the original one all the way through, only the very beginning, but I will definitely pick it up when I feel like.