Remothered: Broken Porcelain Reviews
Remothered: Broken Porcelain is one of the most disappointing horror games that I’ve played in a while. Nay, one of the most disappointing games in general. I wanted to like it, I really did, but beyond the unbearably buggy gameplay lies a shallow stealth horror experience that is more of an exercise in frustration than it is in terror.
My experience with Remothered: Broken Porcelain was brought to a halt several times after I had to restart my game and figure out a way to progress without soft locking it. On the surface, this is a beautiful, moody horror game, but once you look deeper, you’ll see that the real horror is the game’s mechanics, pacing, and plot. I had such high hopes for this game, but after a few hours, I was looking to check out of the Ashmann Inn early.
Remothered: Broken Porcelain's striking visuals and outstanding sound design can't disguise the repetitive, mundane survival horror game lurking underneath.
Missed opportunities combine with terrible optimization and a plethora of bugs to create a game that quickly becomes a frustrating slog. There’s the brutalized skeleton of a good survival horror game buried within Remothered: Broken Porcelain. The story is excellent and will stick with me for years to come. It’s just a shame that for everything the game does right when it comes to its gameplay and storytelling, a severe lack of polish and poor optimization never fail to emerge from the shadows to murder any hopes you had of having a good time.
It’s not just the moths that bug Remothered Broken Porcelain. It’s the fundamentally broken narrative structure, nonsensical cut-scenes, unimaginative gameplay, and tired, badly implemented mechanics. Then there’s the masses of crippling bugs. There’s no amount of patching that will fix this game.
Remothered: Broken Porcelain needs much patching in order to be even considered playable. With unresponsive controls, frame rate issues, texture pop-ins, and etc., this game comes off far more frustrating to play than it is scary.
Again stealth is the key in Remothered. There are some playable novelties that go unnoticed and the plot becomes even more tangled if possible. A pity that there are many glitches, fortunately you can continue playing reloading last save easily.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
In a lot of ways, Remothered: Broken Porcelain is better than the first Remothered game, even though it suffers from weaker atmosphere and lack of tension. The remaining issues either already have been or will be fixed soon, so feel free to jump into this unusual title.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
With Remothered: Broken Porcelain we can see what the developers wanted to do, but sadly we will see how badly they have done it. The game is months away from development, has too many bugs, bugs, and technical problems to ignore, and the worst thing is that they do affect the gameplay a lot. We're quite disappointed after a remarkable first installment, and hope that Stormind Games will face off and fix this mess, or they'll blow their reputation.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Remothered: Broken Porcelain offers a lot from a narrative point of view and little from a playful one. Chris Darril's video game features many ideas that are good but don't work on balance. The little playful offer, the low longevity and the price at which it is sold make it difficult to appreciate. Probably without the troubled development the game has undergone, this would be a no doubt positive review.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Fortunately, the characters we will run into, be they friends or foes, once again have a very successful presence and development (special mention to that fearsome masked man). If we add to all of them a more than remarkable soundtrack, a more than correct dubbing of voices in English (don't worry, the texts are in Spanish) and a story that fully engages the player and that expands, with great success, the narration of Tormented Fathers, we find an unavoidable appointment for those who enjoyed this installment and for lovers of survival horror.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
There’s an interesting concept for a horror game here with an insane story burdened by many issues. It’s a shame since the story is interesting, but not interesting enough to put up with so many flaws. Perhaps the true villain in Remothered: Broken Porcelain are the lengthy loading screens (on Xbox One at least) that will surely haunt the dreams of those that experience them.
Remothered: Broken Porcelain is a broken mess of a nightmare in regards to its convoluted story and broken experience.
Remothered: Broken Porcelain is a terrible mess of a game. Boring gameplay, mediocre graphics, horrific sound mixing and unnecessarily convoluted plot make Broken Porcelain one of the worst games I played this year.
Review in Polish | Read full review
The Remothered series has had quite a troubled and complex history. What started as a 2-D homage to the Clock Tower games was soon scrapped and re-imagined into a more cinematic survival-horror experience. The first title in this new series; Remothered: Tormented Fathers, was a sleeper hit amongst horror fans. Praised for its storytelling and scary atmosphere, it was pretty certain that a sequel would be on the cards.
The creators of Remothered: Broken Porcelain, try to tell a story but with no success. It is difficult to understand the sequence of events but also how they relate to each other.
Review in Greek | Read full review
At the end of the fright, Remothered: Broken Porcelain is probably a must-play for fans of Remothered: Tormented Fathers, but newcomers may not want to jump in at this game if you're looking for the full story. If you are though however are looking for a quick thrill and not too worried about some gameplay issues, Remothered: Broken Porcelain could be something to take a stab at.
There are also numerous graphical issues, flare-ups, and technical difficulties that show that Remothered: Broken Porcelain could have definitely benefited from more time in the oven. If you're looking for some survival horror for this Halloween season, look elsewhere.
So the original Remothered was a weird ole suspense-filled adventure of sorts with a crazy story and you trying desperately to escape being locked in an old house with a crazed old man...
Remothered: Broken Porcelain didn't learn from either the positives or negatives of Tormented Fathers. The experience is plagued by technical shortcomings and frustrating gameplay, not to mention a narrative that is more complicated than the previous installment.
Review in Arabic | Read full review