About This Game APPROACH THE EDGE OF HUMANITY.For long has the humanity been constrained by limits of human body. Most have accepted the imperfection of flesh, but some sought for liberation. To pursue the dream of creating a post-human being – to achieve ideas of transhumanism – is the driving force behind H+ Corporation. Within its facilities technology and homo sapiens became one entity. An organism devoid of humanity’s biological weaknesses.You board the spaceship Purity-02 – prime complex of the H+ Corporation.The dream shatters to a nightmare when you realize what has become of Purity-02. Once a research vessel, it has turned into a deadly, deserted trap. To flee Purity-02 you have to investigate the mysteries of the ship. With every passing minute the chances of survival grow slim. Infected with a parasite emitting deadly toxins, you struggle against havoc being wrought within your body. But there is yet a greater danger to evade.A beast is roaming the ship. A creature known from long-forgotten fables and ancient myths. It could prowl around in any shadow and lurk behind any corner. You must plan your every move. You must survive the infection.You Must Get Off the Ship. 7aa9394dea Title: PhantarukGenre: Action, Adventure, IndieDeveloper:PolyslashPublisher:PolyslashRelease Date: 16 Aug, 2016 Phantaruk Download Link I rate the PC survival-horror game Phantaruk 2.5/5. In general, this is a good idea done badly.Honestly, I didn’t have the patience to finish playing this game. Though it has some okay graphics, good sound, good horror music, good voice acting, adequate controls and is a fun idea (a horror game on a spaceship seems like an intrinsically good idea to me and it worked well in System Shock 2), Phantaruk quickly becomes a frustrating experience mired in a slew of bad game design choices. It becomes even worse when you see how the mediocre (at best) gameplay experience has been coupled with a clichéd and boring plot which gives you no choice regarding (from what I saw on Youtube) how totally unsatisfying the ending will be. With no difficulty levels or major gameplay options Phantaruk also has no replay value whatsoever.Phantaruk is a survival horror game which takes place on a strange medical/research spaceship which has very few of its lights turned on. Your initial objective is to try to escape the ship. Once you discover what your late-game objective is, the entire plot falls apart and the game starts to feel just as arbitrary, silly and frustrating as the gameplay itself. Though guns are mentioned in the game’s dialogue, you will be oddly unable to find a single one. The game also won’t let you pick up any heavy objects wield as weapons. This means you will need to avoid and hide from enemies for the entire course of the game. To make matters worse, once a certain, frequently reappearing enemy spots you, it becomes almost impossible to escape as your character is unable to run very fast or very far without quickly running out of breath. Whenever I played this game I found myself wishing I was playing Doom 3 (or even System Shock 2) instead. I mean, in Phantaruk, your character can’t even pick up a wrench and use it as a weapon to at least stave off the enemies? Apparently not, because that might cause his blood pressure to rise too much and we wouldn’t want that. Your character in Phantaruk is a delicate daisy.Worse still, you are continuously encouraged to keep moving and find more medical hypodermic needles to use before weird toxins in your blood stream kill you, unless you keep on injecting yourself every 5 minutes or so. This situation pretty much encourages you to throw caution to the wind and keep moving regardless of the dangers which may lurk beyond your immediate location. This all means that when you play Phantaruk you’ll probably get killed, A LOT, at least if you try hard to be stealthy like I did. You might get killed so often that being killed by a big bio-mechanic monstrosity begins to lose its drama and merely becomes a repetitive irritant. This ongoing situation causes this survival horror game to lose most of its sense of tension and the game starts to feel more like an irritating, repetitive puzzle game, one in which it is unreasonably dark and hard to see. On top of all this you inexplicably have a harder time seeing if you are close to the main monster. That’s right; the screen gets intentionally blurry whenever you are close to the main monster. It’s an intrinsically stupid game mechanic that not only doesn’t make very much sense but can also interfere with not getting killed, again and again.So basically:+/-Great sound, great, mostly ambient horror music, at least adequate controls, good automatic saving checkpoints, an honestly creepy atmosphere in many places, at least until the effect wears off and it gets boring/repetitive. Why is a medical ship so damn dark, even if it is an emergency situation?+/-Pretty good graphics but there are several minor graphical glitches (the distance becomes blurry when you look at your arm mounted computer screen for example). I had not realized the Unity engine was capable of having such nice 3d graphics. In places it is comparable to the graphics of Doom 3. It seems odd that the lighting is so poor. At least the poor lighting in Doom 3 made some sense, since Demons from HELL were invading and changing things. There’s not enough of a reason for the lighting in this game to be poor. If you remember, the lighting in System Shock 2 wasn’t always poor (and that was on board a space ship too). Some minor graphical stuttering/slow down for no apparent reason seems to occur randomly but it is not extremely noticeable.-Irritating gameplay in general. Once the main monster spots you it seems to be almost impossible to hide from it. The plot would have you think there is maybe only one main monster but it feels as though there must be many of them because it often appears in areas beyond where you are after you have just escaped from it. This means the monster’s location is unpredictable which adds tension but also adds frustration. -Cannot fight, cannot run well, cannot fend off the enemies in any way. Screen becomes blurry for no good reason whenever you are near the most dangerous enemy type (because your blood pressure is too high? Honestly, that sounds really stupid). -Frustrating game mechanics may cause the main character to die repeatedly causing the game to lose its sense of tension and possibly causing the player to lose their fear of dying. This saps the game of most of its tension. -The need to keep injecting your character with hypos to stave off your character’s blood toxins forces you to hurry more than you otherwise may want to, thus encouraging risky behavior/tactics and may cause some players to try to rush through this already fairly short game and thus die even more often.SPOILER HERE:-Clichéd anti-technology/anti-intellectual plot in which you are forced to make the inane and stupid decision of destroying all evidence of a corrupt company’s wrongdoings even though all their mad scientists have already escaped anyhow. Oh, and the ending is totally unsatisfying. You die in the end by setting yourself (and the entire ship) on fire. Hooray for you. Congrats. Great feel-good ending isn’t it? -Apparently no alternate endings hence and no difficulty levels or major gameplay options results in no replay value for a relatively short game.-Gameplay gets even worse in one section where you must navigate darkened, smoke-choked corridors (with a bright screen in your face taking up some of your view) with the main, screen-blurring monster nearby so, during that segment, you can see even less than you usually can. Very frustrating segment.. Do not even launch it if you are chicken. Only for people with nerves of steel! This game was like 6 hour marathon of terror. I played games like Dead Space normally. I don't know what this games has, but it's like whole new level of horror. I will not forget this game for a long time. That is a horror I am certain I will not forget for a long time.. Another game that failed to properly deliver a horror story. Our objective is to pass through individual stages that require a 100% stealth play style because otherwise our character will end up dead after a pointless run. Besides annoying, very loud audio jumpscares which have the potential to damage your sense of hearing the only danger we have to face is the Phantaruk and our own clones. The big guy is easy to trick by going underneath a desk and waiting a second but the duplicates are an absolute nightmare. Most of them are passive or at least seem like it because a clone who didn't give a damn when you walked right underneath his nose can all suddenly decide to attack you from the back 5 seconds later. Because of such nonsense I really regretted the fact that the game doesn't have any guns in it. If it did I would really have to think over if I should aim it at the clones or my own head.. Scary but not scary...how can I explain it. Very intriguing game.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtN4JfZ0o_w. If you want the brief opinion, here it is: if you are looking for the space horror, you can buy "Phantaruk" without any doubts (and don't forget to check "Syndrome" as well).You are a single person on the space ship, haunted by unknown evil... You will need to make your way throug the maze-like sectors, hiding from the mercyless hunter and fighting agains virus, striking you from within...The game is relatively short and it is not as polished as "Alien: Isolation", for example, but it can be thrilling and enjoyable.Good things:- i do like the level design;- stealth mechanic isn't flawless, but it works for me (little spoiler: sound doesn't trigger enemy attention... well, almost);- voiceover is surprisingly good, i would say, perfect for this game;- enemies are truly terrifying;- idea about "lethal conditions" for your alter ego is very good and it is encorporated well;- story is good in total;- convenient checkpoint system.Now something i did not like:- story, while being interesting, is presented badly;- final is over-rapid and it leaves player unsatisfied;- task log is crap: you are doing things without any idea, why. It comes especially sharp during the final part (player definitely needs more explanations);- graphic engine is a bit laggy;- Spoiler alert red (don't read this, if you haven't finished the game): Phantaruk is teleported to some parts of the level instead of pursuing you linearly. This damages the stealth mechanic, but even worse, it feels with that teleportation, that Phantaruks are many, which is against the storyline. I believe actually, that there are more than one on some levels (for example, when you're lurking through the storage rooms, you can just run from one Phantaruk to another, maybe, it is possible to force them to meet each other :)Well, regardless of some flaws, "Phantaruk" is a good space horror. Some ideas are just brilliant (like usage of pulse or that smoky labyrinth), the experience will give you some nice shivering, the story and the voiceover are worth of your time.P:S: отличная игрушка, не уступает "Syndrome". Играть жутко, выглядит и звучит приятно, в комплекте неплохая история, хотя торопливо законченная. И, кстати, есть русский язык со вполне приличным переводом.. Memories came back after launching this game. Very nostalgic tittle, reminding me of old horror games. Of course I am nat talking about graphics - it is modern and very nice. As a fan of horrors, I am playing a lot, but this one needs to be commented and highlighted. This is where Adventure Horrors should aim right now!. Dont waste your time or money on this mess. How in the world did i get this game?
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Updated: Mar 14, 2020
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