With Vertigo, Pendulo Studios is abandoning the genre of puzzle adventure games in favor of slightly interactive fictions, Dontnod Entertainment style. The initial promise was enticing, but the pacing issues, lack of real gameplay, and bugs got the better of our enthusiasm.
Súper recomendable! Me ha encantado la estética y la construcción de los personajes a medida que avanza la historia. Te mantiene en tensión, pegado a la pantalla, sin poder pausar ni un minuto.
Alfred Hitchcock - Vertigo offers a worthy tribute to the master of anxiety. Not only does it respect the codes of the films of the time and provides us with a soundtrack at the height of its model, but it also relies on a perfectly crafted scenario, with numerous twists and turns that keep us on the edge of our seats. It's a pity that it suffers from a not always perfect technique, as well as an often disastrous lip animation. But if you are a fan of narrative games and Hitchcock's films, you should forgive this pitfall as the atmosphere is there and the flashbacks are appreciable.
Alfred Hitchcock: Vertigo is an intriguing thriller if not breathtaking. Its common thread is woven through the mysteries that we are keen to unveil. But it suffers from such a slow pace that it can become heavy. The spectacle is also appreciated in half-tone; Pendulo Studios develops a conclusive sound atmosphere to the detriment of particularly lame animation and technique.
Vertigo's main problem, probably, is its ambition. When you choose such a cumbersome source of inspiration, the risk of ending up crushed by it is real. The Pendulo game wisely chooses not to retrace the path traced by Hitchcock, but to borrow the main theme. Unfortunately, however, it manages to keep the interest high only in the initial stages, then a under-the-bar acting and questionable narrative choices prevail over originality. You could appreciate the attempt, not so much the outcome.
Whilst its exciting plot twists are sure to have you dizzy with surprise, Vertigo ultimately fails to stand up against the weight of expectation brought about by its own name.
This version of Vertigo portrays women in a way that is seriously difficult to stomach in a post-#MeToo era. Here, women prey on an unsuspecting man using, for instance, sex and hypnosis to lure him in and do him harm. Male trauma is of course absolutely real, but this game doesn’t have the tools to examine it with the required care, and ends up essentially saying #MenToo – and doing a significant disservice to the body of cinematic work that inspires it.
A narrative game with a very gripping story! Much better done than a telltale game. The screenplay is very well written and the characters well played. However, the gameplay remains very simplistic in this type of game, we are more spectator than actor and I am not sure that there are several possible endings. Note that there are sometimes a few errors such as managing the volume of voice sound with music. But overall the 10 hours spent on the title were very nice!
Un buena aventura narrativa en forma de novela de suspense interactiva. Trama y giros de guión que enganchan, aunque su conclusión termina haciéndose innecesariamente larga. La trama se va oscureciendo según avanzas, tocando temas como los trastornos psicológicos, la psicopatía, el maltrato infantil, los abusos sexuales y conflictos no resueltos. Su duración, es de unas 8-9 horas de juego. Aunque lineales y algo repetitivas, la dinámicas de juego y sencillos QTE cumplen correctamente su principal función, que es servir como pretextos para la revelación y resolución progresivas del misterio o misterios que se nos plantean. Aunque las expresiones faciales de los personajes es mejorable, los entornos y escenarios principales está bien conseguidos visual y estéticamente. También cuenta con buenos diálogos y doblaje al castellano. El rendimiento gráfico es bueno la mayoría del tiempo, aunque hay algunas partes de cinemáticas con bajones y tirones importantes de FPS.
Frustration
Visual (6/10): good enough, but not great. No motion capture, specific faces - it's not AAA game, but it feels like Pendulo still live in 2014.
Gameplay (2/10): boring and repetitive one button clicking in the same scene but in different time lines. No choice matter, no new mechanics, reading Teltale choices is less boring.
Story(8/10): story is really good and enjoyable, buuuut ending is kind of strange and frustrating(imho)
All in all the game is not bad, just watch walkthrough on youtube and you will enjoy it more than playing.
Hitchcock deserves better quality , I expected more than this.
- Psx 2 graphics
- Facial animation doesn't match voice or feels disconnected.
- Some 3d character models are just horrible
- Lineal gameplay , you don't take any decision along the way to change plot or ending.
- The story is not that good...
SummaryEd Miller, a writer, came out unscathed from his car crash down into Brody Canyon, California. Even though no one was found inside the car wreckage, Ed insists that he was traveling with his wife and daughter. Traumatized by the event, he begins to suffer from severe vertigo. As he starts therapy, he will try to uncover what really happe...