Agony Reviews
Repetitive and boring Gameplay and Weak artistic and technical design are some of the main reasons to stay away from Agony
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The best-case scenario for Agony is that patches fix the many technical problems plaguing this game right now.
In reality, poorly developed mechanics are your enemies in Agony, not the demons you're supposed to be afraid of.
Agony is game that tries really hard to produce a disturbing and scary version of hell. But it fails on both counts. Had the developer Madmind spent more time on the gameplay instead of getting butt physics correct (yes you read that correctly) we might have something here that could pass for a game. The desperate attempts to add shock with the now infamous censored scenes are just schoolboy tricks in a bid to generate hype and ultimately end up a moot point given just how terrible the rest of the game is.
If Hell does exist, then it's surely the one depicted in Agony, because one can get used to pain and suffering, but these can't compete with utter and complete boredom. Madmind Studios' rushed, "controversial" cash-grab, is nothing more than one of the contenders for the worst release of 2018, and one of the worst survival horror games ever, full stop.
Agony is good, on paper
While it may have some interesting ideas, Agony's awful optimisation, monotonous gameplay, and infuriating trial and error loop make it a sin to play.
Very rarely do you get a game whose title accurately describes how it feels to play it.
Madmind Studios has successfully created the definitive version of videogame Hell: humdrum, uninspiring gameplay, frustrating level design, stuttering frame-rates, soft locks and crashes galore, unpolished textures, ugly character modelling, sudden inexplicable deaths, and irritating glitches. It is a painful experience from beginning to end, with the only real highlight being the uninstall. An absolute stinker; Agony is most definitely Hell!
Agony is a ridiculous and incomplete effort to visualize a new inferno. it almost seems like that developers have been so laser focused on making disgusting environments that they completely forgot about gameplay and even playability.
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Don't even waste your time with this one.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
Agony is obsessed with getting the atmosphere right at the expense of gameplay. From the bones and viscera adorning every the world to the torture and writhing bodies, the developer has certainly succeeded at creating a place that is disturbing and fascinating. Once you get over the edgy environment, you'll recognize that there are many issues with the game: broken tutorials, inept stealth elements, a possession system that isn't explained, poor checkpoint placement, gamma issues, and mediocre voice acting. In a way, the experience you'll have with the game matches its name perfectly, so unless you're desperate for a masochistic experience, Agony gets a hard pass.
Although Agony offers a vivid, grotesque, and very disturbing glimpse into the bowels of Hell, it doesn't offer much in the way of polished, coherent gameplay.
Agony. It's a pretty fitting name.
All of the problems above spoil what little Agony does right, and as a result, it's hard to recommend Agony to anyone. The only people who should consider Agony are people that want a truly hardcore, even at the expense of enjoyment, survival horror game that will put your patience to the test.
Agony is not a good game. It feels as if the developers just gave up after such a long development cycle. Filled with bugs, boring and infuriating stealth and chase sequences and repetitive puzzles it's very hard to find anything to enjoy in Agony.
As its name suggests, playing this at times is painful, void of fun, and a chore that could've been avoided had a lot more care been put into it.
Despite some glorious and gruesome horror imagery, Agony doesn't have much else to offer.
Hell itself comes to video games, in the form of disturbingly explicit imagery and unbearably dull gameplay.