8.0
Dark Echo is a thrilling adventure game set in the total darkness of an underground cave, which forces us to navigate using soundwaves that are visualized on the screen.
Dark Echo
RAC7 Games · Feb 4, 2015
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Trapped in darkness, you must use visualized sound to guide your way through threatening environments. The sounds you create will bounce off obstacles, revealing the shape of the surrounding world. It won't be long before your only way of sensing the world attracts a horrifying evil that devours both sound and souls.
Survive through 80 levels that will make your heart race and leave you with an irrational fear of red lines. A foreboding soundscape, best experienced with headphones, sets the tone for your journey. Explore, solve puzzles, and most importantly - stay alive.
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- 7.9Brilliantly rendered echoes and buzzes permeate the soundscape, best experienced on stereo headphones. Your enemy is always just a nanosecond behind, meaning the pressure is always satisfyingly high. We like the minimal, delicate graphics too. You might find the 80 levels a little repetitive, as stepping one foot at a time (necessary to avoid detection) can get tiresome.
- Dark Echo hits all the right notes any well-designed horror game should. It makes you feel incredibly powerless, but extends a lifeline perpetually just outside your grasp. The superb pacing, alternating between quiet moments in the dark and chaotic dashes through a colorful kaleidoscope, creates a tense atmosphere that pulls you in completely.
- 9.0Conventional wisdom might say that piling on the gory details makes video games scarier. But Dark Echo rejects that and creates one of the most spine-chilling iOS games around through the horrific power of the unseen and the sheer force of creative, intelligent, and masterfully constructed minimalism. Fear is the mind killer.
- 7.0An admirable attempt to do something different and clever on iOS, dragged down by a few too many levels that require tedious slogging.
- Dark Echo è un gioco molto intrigante, senza dubbio estremamente originale, che si allontana dalle esperienze che siamo abituati ad associare all'ambito mobile offrendo invece un'avventura survival horror emotivamente coinvolgente, che dà un peso fondamentale alla componente sonora rendendola protagonista assoluta del gameplay. Pur con qualche lentezza iniziale nel prendere ritmo e nonostante la forte componente trial and error, Dark Echo è comunque uno dei titoli per iOS e Android più interessanti degli ultimi mesi.
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