Tormented Souls and The Artful Escape – Zero Punctuation

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This week on Zero Punctuation, Yahtzee reviews Tormented Souls and The Artful Escape.

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Well I guess the release drought’s officially over, we’ve had so many review codes come into Escapist Towers we’ve had to sell some of them off as gently used wi-fi passwords. I played the first hour of like nine different games this week, it’s been like speed dating but where you get to piss on their face. Can’t cover them all but gratifyingly I can selectively highlight the ones that actually stirred something in me, whether that be admiration or a second round of contemptful wee wee. Starting with Tormented Souls, which as you might have guessed from the title is without hyperbole the most generic survival horror game in the universe. If this were 1999, that is, because Fermented Balls is deliberately aping old PS1 era Resident Evil Alone in the Dark fixed camera games and if you’ve only played modern horror games where you walk through a funhouse hall of mirrors for two hours then get a participation award then you’re going to fucking hate it. “Why can’t I angle the camera to look at the thing that’s about to twat me across the room?” Because it’s a deliberate homage to retro fixed camera horror games! “Why does the camera angle keep suddenly reversing and making me spin on my heel and sprint right back into the monster I’m trying to flee like a nervous deer at a busy junction?” Deliberate homage retro horror!


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Yahtzee Croshaw
Yahtzee is the Escapist’s longest standing talent, having been writing and producing its award winning flagship series, Zero Punctuation, since 2007. Before that he had a smattering of writing credits on various sites and print magazines, and has almost two decades of experience in game journalism as well as a lifelong interest in video games as an artistic medium, especially narrative-focused. He also has a foot in solo game development - he was a big figure in the indie adventure game scene in the early 2000s - and writes novels. He has six novels published at time of writing with a seventh on the way, all in the genres of comedic sci-fi and urban fantasy. He was born in the UK, emigrated to Australia in 2003, and emigrated again to California in 2016, where he lives with his wife and daughters. His hobbies include walking the dog and emigrating to places.