Black Mirror Reviews
Black Mirror will leave you feeling a bit torn. It's a good story told in a good location, accompanied by an ideal soundtrack. The fact that it is carrying on with the same family from the original games is the icing on the cake. Sadly, it is let down by too many problems, including annoying movement and camera tracking, poor facial character designs and other issues that mount up to make the game more of a struggle than it should be.
KING Art's take on the series was supposed to introduce it to a new generation of fans, but as things stand, it would be better for those interested in getting the older Black Mirror games, as the reboot is marred by a variety of issues that prevent from being a memorable experience. There is a decent adventure game beneath the mediocre writing, bland characters, and technical issues, but it would be better to look elsewhere if one is looking for a masterpiece.
Black Mirror is a classic point and click mystery game well worth the time you'll spend playing it.
This reboot is a very big fail. The good subject is wasted becouse of a careless and a techincally poor execution. Just buy the original trilogy on GOG.com and live happy.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Black Mirror fails to succeed in anything but few interesting puzzles and nice gothic atmosphere.
Review in Russian | Read full review
This new version for the 2004's Black Mirror game features some nice and enjoyable puzzles, but it deeply fails at its technical side.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Black Mirror's reboot, a collaboration between King Art and THQ Nordic is not what we expected. The fact that the story and puzzles are fine doesn't hide the awful characters, bad controls, woeful animations, glitches and all the other technical problems.
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This Black Mirror reboot is a wonky adventure game flawed witfh some terrible gameplay ideas and a lot of loadings issues. Even if you're a fan of the genre and a patient gamer, it's hard to recommend it.
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A failed resurrection of a once great IP. Black Mirror is short, boring and predictible, and in current technical condition it shouldn't even be released.
Review in Polish | Read full review
Black Mirror attempts to bring a horror-themed point-and-click adventure game to a new audience but is hampered by glaring technical setbacks. On more than one occasion, David had become stuck, only to seemingly slowly rotate himself in place with no way to free yourself. During one of the game's pivotal cutscenes, the game crashed with an alarmingly loud buzzing noise before crashing back to the Xbox home screen. Exploring the eerie mansion and the accompanying ground should be more enjoyable, but the frequent loading screens ruin the experience. If you can overlook these issues, I found the characters and the narrative quite compelling, but at the same time, there is no reason to play through the game multiple times.
Black Mirror offers a unique experience in a Gothic atmosphere with good graphics and good sound effects. It succeeds in taking you and putting you in a story and let you play as if you were a protagonist of a book. With the sound effects which will make the atmosphere more impactful, this game becomes a jewel. However, when it comes to the somewhat clunky camera movement, and a couple of basic gameplay problems, the game fails to keep the excitement alive. If you are an adventure game fan, you should absolutely try this game.
Black Mirror had some potential in its core premise and its influences, but the result is sadly a poorly designed, average-at-best adventure. Devoid of choices and consequences, null in replay value and forgettable as an overall experience, it might be worth picking up on a sale if you are an achievement hunter or desperate for a Gothic-themed story.
Black Mirror is a very traditional adventure game. It has some remarkable moments in its narration and puzzle parts, yet boring pace, terrible characterization, clumsy mission design, and tons of bugs have destroyed the experience of the game. But of course, considering we barely can see this kind of games nowadays, we still recommend you to try it, if you are a big fan of AVGs.
Review in Chinese | Read full review
Despite some decent puzzles, a confusing story and bland characters worsen the experience
Black Mirror often alludes to the Gothic classics that inspired it, to stories full of disturbing, evil forces that threaten to overtake their characters, but the only unsettling thing about it is a glut of technical issues.
There's nothing that helps redeem Black Mirror for all of the issues that plague it. There are bits and pieces of a good game but they're buried under bad design and awful tech that keep Black Mirror from ever becoming an engaging experience.
Black Mirror has an interesting storyline and interesting puzzles, but at the same time game suffers from terrible optimization and lots of flaws. Of course, if you love the "old school stories", you can give the game a chance, but everyone else should pass by.
Review in Russian | Read full review
Black Mirror is serviceable with fun gameplay elements and an engaging mystery at the center of it all, but the exploration and animation keeps this game from being great.
Black Mirror starts with an interesting premise and decent voice acting, but the combination of poor controls and atrocious camera angles paired with a garbled story and uninteresting characters drag this experience to the bottom of the abyss.
It's an uphill battle to recommend the game to anyone but the most committed fan of adventure games, and Gothic horror, and even then, there's a scant 5 hours of gameplay there.