Review for Re: Turn - One Way Trip. PC game, the video game came out on 14/10/2020
We are currently in full spooktober, and the videogame world has brought to its audience a series of titles worthy of being faced during the Halloween period, such as Amnesia: Rebirth and Remothered: Broken Porcelain. If you are looking for another game with a similar atmosphere, you can add it to the list too Re: Turn - One Way Trip, an independent horror adventure, developed by Red Ego Games and published by Green Man Gaming Publishing.
The story centers on a group of five college friends, who after graduating from college decide to take a vacation together. The location they chose in order to spend the last moments before entering the world of adults is a forest, but to be more precise the real story will almost entirely take place inside an old abandoned train.
The player plays Saki, a girl belonging to the group of friends above. After waking up alone in the woods, she will start looking for her friends who are missing in that gloomy place where all the protagonists found themselves due to fortuitous circumstances. Obviously the search will not be easy at all because puzzles, mysteries and an evil entity will get in the way of Saki as he tries to escape and understand what fate has happened to the people involved in the narrated events.
It could be said that the gameplay of Re: Turn - One Way Trip is quite similar to that of a very simplified and very intuitive point and click. Each examinable element present in the environment, once approached, is indicated with a magnifying glass, and sometimes it will be possible to use certain objects on the elements in question in order to be able to solve various puzzles, thus proceeding in the development of the plot.
There is nothing else: the gameplay is practically only what has just been listed. However - if you want to be a little more specific - the different puzzles contained in the game can be solved by going back and forth in time. In fact, Saki, following certain events, will faint and find herself catapulted into the past in the form of a ghost. In the past, the player will be able to collect key items to add to the backpack, taking them with them into the present through a strange form of time paradox.
It must be specified that Re: turn - One Way Trip presents some problems that annoy the gameplay and the narration divided into chapters, but which at the same time do not affect the gaming experience so severely. One of them is the continuous repetition of the current objective in the dialogues, which serve to constantly remind the user what to do but at the same time slow down the pace of the game.
Another problem is the set of factors that do not find a clear or consistent meaning with respect to the context in which they are found. It is clear that the game concept wants to recreate in its own way the same feeling of Japanese independent horror games, but it seems that to do so the developers have limited themselves to putting together a series of elements without worrying about their overall coherence.
The London studio, for the creation of Re: Turn - One Way Trip, has decided to use the Unity graphics engine, in order to create a 2D pixel art environment in which the player can only move his avatar left and right. Colors are predominantly light during events in the past and darker in the present, and in both cases each individual subject has an inordinate amount of detail. The drawings are pleasant and refined, creating images that are not really static - as is often seen in the most banal visual novels - but always quite dynamic through the use of looped animations.
The lack of dubbing is compensated for with decidedly refined background sounds that give the right atmosphere to the title, which in terms of audio has nothing to envy to other more famous games.
Re: Turn - One Way Trip is a very simple horror video game, but one that in one way or another still manages to give good emotions. The straightforward and highly intuitive gameplay makes it pretty easy. While playing, you will encounter some small errors of a logical and contextual nature, but despite this we still feel we can affirm that it is an excellent product. The sound sector is quite sophisticated, and the scenarios are hyper detailed, to the point of astonishing despite being "simple" pixel art.
► Re: Turn - One Way Trip is a game developed by Red Ego Games and published by Green Man Gaming Publishing for PC, the game was released on 14/10/2020
