Penumbra: Requiem

K. Fields
2014-02-14T19:26:28-05:00
Video Games

It was a disappointing ending. I am referring to Penumbra: Requiem, the final entry in the Penumbra series. The first two Penumbra offerings, Overture and Black Plague, were interesting survival horror games with puzzles and a physics-based game engine. In Requiem, the horror was pretty much gone. Although the environment could be deadly, there were no enemies at all. The puzzle elements remained but there was barely a story to be found. All in all, I found it to be very unsatisfying. There was plenty of box moving, switch pulling, jumping, and so forth. Having to do so stumbling around in the dark with a flashlight or glow stick wasn’t that enjoyable.