The Isle Tide Lodge’s greatest crime is that it is not even so dangerous it is humorous. It is simply dangerous dangerous. Dangerous dangerous dangerous dangerous dangerous. There isn’t any purpose to play this recreation apart from sheer morbid curiosity, and no purpose to suggest this recreation to anyone for something apart from spite.
However first, the formalities, so we will all get out of right here. The Isle Tide Lodge is an FMV thriller thriller during which you play as Josh, a person looking for his estranged daughter who’s disappeared after visiting the titular resort. Everybody within the resort is doolally. One thing sinister is afoot. Are you able to remedy the thriller of the Isle Tide Lodge and restore your relationship together with your daughter?
What follows is commonplace FMV recreation fare. You discuss to folks, make choices, and the story adapts to your decisions. However the characters you meet are bewildering. They typically discuss in riddles with dreamlike cadence, solely as an alternative of unsettling and haunting, it is all simply vaguely embarrassing, like watching your mum re-enacting her favorite bits from Twin Peaks after a few sherries too many. Some characters are annoying. Most, really. There’s not fun available in your entire expertise, intentional or in any other case.
Regardless of the fascinating premise, the thriller by no means takes off as a result of we’re not given sufficient meat on the bone to sink our enamel into, and by the point the secrets and techniques begin to be revealed, we might simply misplaced curiosity. The story is little greater than a sequence of weird interactions culminating in an atrocious part during which you should navigate a form of maze of an identical rooms — or at the least, it did for us in each of our runs. It is a irritating finish to a irritating recreation.
For those who purchase into the thriller and you’ll tolerate the obnoxious characters you then’ll get extra out of this than we did. However by the point we have been misplaced within the maze, bamboozled, for what felt like an hour, we simply did not care anymore. We performed it twice and bought completely different endings and neither was price it. Possibly there’s an ending that is a banger and we simply missed it. We suspect not.
