Last year I reviewed The Bridge Curse: Road to Salvation and had a bit of a rough time playing it as it was plagued with issues on top of a poorly delivered story. I ended the review by saying that I hoped a remake would be made of the game that would improve on the negatives I found in that game. Well, here we are with the sequel, The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication. I would like to thank Softstar Entertainment, PQube, and Gamera Games for trusting me to review the sequel to a game I did not originally like.
The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication takes players to Wen Hua University which has become popular due to a viral video of a trailer made by film students that appears to show a real ghost in it, the three students involved in the video set out to begin filming on campus one night as an investigative reporter received a strange tip about a disappearance of a student, all four will have to survive the night on campus after the clock struck midnight.
Now, onto the game itself! When it comes to the controls, they’re simple to learn and remember as it’s also helpful that they’re set up like a FPS game.
A significant improvement compared to the previous game is that the graphics are a lot better, still some strange animations for some of the character’s hands in the first-person views in the cinematics but other than that, it looks so much better. One thing that somewhat improved was the voice acting, this time I can tell real people are dubbing over the game BUT I have my doubts about the voice-over of the character A-Hai as she sounds super bland, like Grimes’ voice “acting” in Cyberpunk bland.
Gameplay has improved with better puzzles and the stealth mechanics are a bit more tense than in the previous game. The only complaint I have is that it seems the AI of the NPCs you’re hiding from seems to come right for you as you’re hiding.
Overall, The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication has improved a lot over the previous installment with better voice acting (for the most part), improved graphics and art, improved ghost designs, and a better story. The one thing that makes me feel a bit uneasy, call me a wet blanket or whatever, but the key focus point in part of the game is a security camera footage from inside an elevator, where a missing college student is last seen acting strangely as she enters the elevator before walking out of it never to be seen again. This scenario, and how the student is animated acting, mirrors the case of Elisa Lam, a college student who went missing at an LA hotel the last known footage of her was from an elevator security camera showing her acting strangely before leaving the elevator never to be seen again till her remains her found a couple of weeks later.
On my scale of 1-10, I give The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication an 8.5/10.
The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication comes out on October 24th for PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, and PC.