Then the last hour of the game is zero gameplay. The constant backtracking is tiring and clearly used for filler. Go check out the graveyard, go back to the house and develop the photo, go back to the lake and find an underground bunker, go back to the house and put up a flag. You are mostly wandering around at a slow pace going from point A to B and interacting with objects. There are a few scenes where you control a motorboat, but it's just to get to the other side of the lake. 75% of the game is spent in Guilia's house or the wood's winding paths. That was actually well done and made me think, but that's the only part that did. I had to look up a morse code chart online and decipher it myself. With the camera feature out of the way, there are other small gameplay things you do such as a morse code mini-game which I actually enjoyed. A pretty lame "mini-game" if you ask me with tons of lost potential. Why? You just focus and position the negative for exposure and then develop it in liquid but the point you stop it is the same for every photo.
You then get to develop the photo, but instead of taking you through the entire complicated process, the game explains to you what that is and says it cut 90% out for better gameplay. Just get the focus and distance right and snap the photo. Taking photos for objectives is simple enough. The game is very plodding, slow, and constantly leads you on for little payoff.
This is kind of the first half of the story as it jumps around so much. Guilia is trying to talk to The White Lady of the lake and find out why her sister died. While you can take photos anywhere (I don't know why you would) you need it for specific plot points. Martha is Dead's best feature is the camera system. Introducing controls, the plot, character building, the whole nine yards that adventure games typically put you through. This is a detective game more than anything with plot twists and an interesting vintage camera system.
You play Guilia who is Martha's twin sister. This is a ghost story, a story about battling mental illness, and a story about surviving WWII in Axis Italy. You would mistakenly think this is some sort of horror game with monsters and demons, but it's barely even that.
By ivory_soul | Review Date: March 6, 2022Īdventure games that both have shock value and a good story are rare and hard to come by, sadly, Martha is Dead is not one of those.
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