At its core, Wailing Heights is a slightly grown up version of those old computer games like Pajama Sam or Spy Fox. You run around grabbing items to complete objectives until you’ve completed them all. It’s just short enough to keep your attention up to its completion. When you’re done with it, you’re done. Unless you REALLY like the music, you won’t be playing it again. The concept is cool, without a doubt: hipster vampires complaining about how the barista gave them the wrong blood type hemolatte is kind of amusing at first. But chances are, when you leave Wailing Heights, you won’t want to come back.
Wailing Heights
Outsider Games · Apr 27, 2016
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A body-hopping, musical adventure game, set in a horrific hamlet of monsters, with a story by Kevin Beimers (Hector: Badge of Carnage) and glorious 2D artwork from a host of illustrious comic book talent.
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- 9.0I thought the game looked kind of silly and fun when I first saw it, but I honestly didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did. Sure, it was frustrating at times as I ran around the town with each character trying to trigger the one specific thing I needed to do to advance the story, and yeah there are some minor bugs that cause your characters to freeze or disappear behind some level architecture. But after the game was over, I had forgotten most of my previous complaints and found that I had legitimately enjoyed playing it. This has somehow become one of my favorite games, and I couldn't be happier about that.
- 5.0Wailing Heights’ presentation is perfectly in-tune, but its gameplay is out of time. While it neatly repurposes some old point-and-click tropes, it doesn’t quite have enough quality to match the ambition of the classics it’s so clearly inspired by. There are some laugh out loud moments and some real ear-worm audio, but it’s not quite enough to demand front-row seats for The Deadbeats’ reunion tour.
- 8.0Overall, Wailing Heights is a challenging adventure game packed full of intriguing puzzles. Despite having a few drawbacks in terms of gameplay, this musical adventure game manages to provide players with a stable, unique experience and thereby delivers upon its promise of a world of oddities.
- 6.0Although this game just secretes good vibes, it's never funny or clever enough to pass the critical eye. However, its light-heartedness and character is enough to play it through, and will have you dancing to the beat of the game for its duration.
- 7.2En resumidas cuentas nos encontramos con un juego especial, diferente, que puede encantar al usuario gracias a su interesantísimo guión, personajes o aspecto gráfico, así como una banda sonora muy completa, pero que también puede hacerse difícil de entender dado el irregular uso del presupuesto o la carencia de una traducción de los textos a otros idiomas. Un juego muy interesante para un público bastante concreto.
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