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Heaven Dust review
Meh
by BloodScorchedSun

I was pretty conflicted on how to feel about this game. On one hand, it's a love letter to the old RE style of horror games and puzzle solving. On the other, it's a jumbled mess with UI of a mobile game. For the most part the game is simple to play, some of the puzzles are very obtuse while others are very simple. The story is very bland and just a simplistic copy of RE in a lot of ways. There is no real depth to anything. You only get a pistol and a bunch of items for puzzles. You can get upgrade manuals, tips and gun powder out of vending machines for tokens. I found it odd that I didn't find too many tokens despite how many zombies I killed. I would also find hundreds of shell casings everywhere because they respawn but not enough gun powder to combine them with. Ammo was never an issue, neither was health for the most part. The biggest issue was in it's translation of notes. Lots of misspellings or jumbled sentences. This wasn't too big of an issue because it was mostly just lore but there was at least one puzzle where this caused the clues to be very confusing due to this translation error. Overall I think it's fine but don't expect any over the top design or gameplay.