My feelings about this game were a little up and down. I purchased it many years ago and it sat in my backlog waiting to be played.

The store page premise is what sold me on it in the first place as it looked and sounded very intriguing. After going through my several hundred unplayed games I remembered this one but couldn't remember the name, so I searched alphabetically and finally found it.

For a game release almost 7 years ago (to the day) I think the graphics are amazing. A lot of the environments are indoors, which make it easier, but the lighting and effects are great.

The first level serves as a bit of an intro and this is done well and draws you in.

So the above are what I class as the first up. Unfortunately, after playing an hour or so, the sheer confusion of what the hell was going on (story-wise) led to the first pretty sizeable down. Whilst I was finding the gameplay fairly enjoyable, I have to admit I had no clue as to what was going on story-wise (had you read my other reviews you will see this is a common theme, so I am a beginning to think it is me).

That said, I persevered, as I enjoyed the gameplay mechanics and atmosphere, and was hopeful all would be revealed. And it was at this rather low, low that things started to pick back up.

For reference I played the English language version and the voice acting is some of the best I have come across in gaming. The main characters voice is perfectly cast, and everyone else's voice and more importantly delivery is on par too. I honestly felt I was part of some Guy Ritchie TV show, that is how much I rate the dialogue - even more impressive as the devs native language is not English, but the writing was exemplary too (even if I had trouble understanding it at times - again my fault).

After what I felt was a low low, with the metaphorical roller coaster gaining speed on the downhill, it came thundering on the up trajectory as story pieces started falling into place, with things making more and more sense, and drawing me in further.

Along the way there were good puzzles and OK puzzles, and one which I fluked (candles) completely by accident. The mechanics were well done throughout and really contributed to the story that was emerging more clearly with each level.

There were still some elements of the game I didn't quite understand by the end of it that could have been explained better (mainly around the use of the in-game mobile phone map, but maybe I just missed this).

Once I had completed a portion of the game and I thought that was it, something happens and then it started to get even more interesting, and provided the opportunity to fill in more of the blanks, before getting to a really strong ending.

Throughout (and in order) my emotions went from Anticipation-->Confusion-->Frustration-->Invested-->Hooked-->Delighted

It is probably useful to know what you are getting into. This is not a shooter, it is more story-based with some investigation, shooting, stealth and puzzle sequences.

Based on the above I can highly recommend this game, and I wasn't sure that would be the case early on.

Well done devs - thank you for a great game!!!