Remothered: Broken Porcelain Reviews
Remothered: Broken Porcelain is a cat-and-mouse horror game with a love story sprinkled in. It looks and sounds great, but is rather short, and bugs can mar the experience.
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
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
Broken Porcelain is good at telling a story, and creating a world filled with horror things. However, the handling feel of this sequel is not satisfactory enough.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Remothered: Broken Porcelain released with a few bugs and some interesting quirks, but nevertheless rises to the occasion.
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 is not quite the sequel I was expecting from Stormind Games. Whilst it continues the interesting saga of the Felton and Ashmann families, the game is still lacking in polish (even after updates have patched out the worst issues), and is relatively short and linear. This is worth a play for genre fans, but it doesn't stand out in the same way that its predecessor did. Not quite Broken anymore, but certainly in need of some repair, this Porcelain doesn't have that ring of quality I was hoping for.
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.
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
If only the team behind Remothered: Broken Porcelain spent more time working on crucial plot points, character motivation and gameplay mechanics, then we could have a rather good game on our hands. As of now Broken Porcelain is just full of game breaking bugs, some of which the devs are desperately trying to get rid of. If you're planning to buy Remothered: Broken Porcelain anyway, at least wait some time before the game will be fixed.
Review in Russian | Read full review
All in all, if you enjoyed the first Remothered then this one is worth picking up, but you might want to wait for a sale.
I genuinely wanted to love Broken Porcelain, but sadly the game's many, many issues hold it back from being a proper playable experience, let alone the quality game it could have been.
Even though it would still be very short, if the technical aspects would have been fixed, the artistic part and atmosphere would have compensated for the length by offering an intense and memorable experience. Unfortunately in its actual form, even the most basic gameplay mechanics from Remothered: Broken Porcelain are broken, and as such, no one should waste time with it.
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.
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
We are really sad to confirm that such a promising project has sunk in a sea of bugs, control issues and unstable sound. If you REALLY love horror, maybe you should give it a chance, but be ready to get frustrated more often than not.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
You can almost see the decent game Broken Porcelain could have been. At the moment of writing it is a buggy mess that's more frustrating than fun.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Overall, there just isn't much to say about Remothered: Broken Porcelain. Almost every aspect of the game disappoints, so you tend not to focus on any one thing while playing. The story was incredibly confusing, but everything else was pretty bad, too, so I didn't even care. It feels incomplete and not paid attention to.
Remothered: Broken Porcelain is what happens when a game tries to be scary, but forgets to be fun. Honestly the game is a mess. You don't know what the story is trying to tell or where the gameplay is going. The dark atmosphere and creepy music are cool, but that's about it. You won't lose anything if you skip this game.
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