It’s been a while since I’ve done a game review no fault of my own, just not many horror games being released at the moment, but I don’t think I needed to be punished for it! Plastomorphosis by Vidygames and Samustai Limited was supposed to be a callback to retro survival horror games, but all it did was give me a headache, literally.
Plastomorphosis follows an unnamed character who is trying to return to their home city after they were evacuated from it due to dark energy radiation, at least that’s what I think is happening, the game is not quite clear on this. that’s one of the issues I’m having with the game but before I continue with the negatives let’s get some of the positives out of the way.
The game has options when it comes to controls, you can have either modern controls OR classic tank controls. The soundtrack is pretty good as it reminds me of Silent Hill and this is where the positives about Plastomorphosis end.
The game is attempting to be a lot like the survival horror games of the early 2000s that gamers saw on PS1 and PS2 consoles. This is not the first game to attempt this, but there are other games out there that seem to have tried a little harder to recreate the look and feel of these games, the more successful ones being Tormented Souls which brought the look and feel of 2000s survival horror to modern players, and Crow Country and Alisa: Develuper’s Cut which both achieved both the feel and look of early 2000s survival horror while Plastomorphosis…well. see for yourself.
The picture above is the game’s visuals on its default settings. It’s just a lot of visual noise, and even after adjusting the brightness and pixelation did not improve much. It’s hard to see what’s going on and where you can go. After trying this game for a couple of hours, my eyes started to hurt and I had to turn it off.
Overall, this was an attempt at trying to make a “retro” survival horror game. At least the survival horror games I used to play the hell out in the early 2000s helped guide you on where to go and what to do, Plastomorphosis does none of this. The graphics were the nail in the coffin for this game for me, these aren’t “potato” graphics, these are rotten potato graphics.
With the visual noise being more horrific than the game, the overall cheap look, and text-to-speech voice acting, Plastomorphosis is possibly one of the worst games I’ve reviewed this year.
