very good game, believe it or not.
User Rating: 8 | Dementium: The Ward DS
I picked this game up truly not expecting much besides disappointment, but much to my surprise it was actually really good. The visuals I think are the highest you're ever gonna see on the D.S. The sound was great. Very creepy, and the ambient noises like children crying in the infant ward was just perfect. Gameplay was very good. If you like the Silent Hill or Resident Evil style game of looking for scraps of paper and handwritten notes, you'll find that here. Only bad things I can say about this game is the same thing every review says and that is the completely broken save system. Makes the game incredibly tedious to play. I know chapter six off by heart, every room and every hall because I had to play through it from the very beginning every time I died. There are no checkpoints. The only other thing I personally didn't like was the bad guys re spawn as soon as you leave the room. So if you check a door thinking it will be locked just to get it to show on the map but it isn't when you turn around to go back all the bad guys are there again which stinks because the ammo is so limited. Would have been nice to be able to go back through areas you had cleared previously to see if you had missed a door or something without hassle. All in all though, it still is a very good game. Very creepy. Well worth the time.
