Upon arriving, Caroline is knocked out, and awakens in a bathtub, with a tube from a respirator lodged down her throat.
The protagonist, Caroline Walker, heads to Winterlake Mansion, which serves as a hospital, in search of twin girls from a photograph she received. The setup to Tormented Souls makes it abundantly clear just how indebted to the early 2000s formula it is. It doesn’t make it a better game necessarily, but it does show confidence. Tormented Souls is gleeful in its character’s suffering, which is something many throwbacks try to compromise on. There’s a real mean streak to it that calls upon the more controversial games of that era.
Its developer, Dual Effect, has seemingly made a survival horror throwback that understands its influences remarkably well whilst not forgetting to throw in a few modern quality of life touches to the package to ensure it slips comfortably between nostalgia and ease of use. įlaws and all, Tormented Souls feels like it belongs in that era. Those few precious years, before the impact of Resident Evil 4 shifted the goalposts, housed memorable cult favorites such as ObScure, Rule of Rose, and Haunting Ground, as well as the more noted classics of the generation such as Silent Hill 2. This was arguably the peak of it at the time. While plenty of indie developers have captured the essence of survival horror as it was on the original PlayStation, far fewer have managed to do so with the PlayStation 2 era of the sub-genre.
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