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Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo Switch NSP Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo contains lots of trigger potential, including themes of suicide, childhood trauma, and mental health. The review discusses these themes, so if this isn’t something you’re comfortable with we’d advise you avoid it. It’s a great time to be alive for people who love strong narratives in video games. Whether you want to kick back with a visual novel and choose the path your character goes down or play through an epic RPG full of intrigue and betrayal, there are countless options to choose from. When I was younger games focused on story almost always had confusing plots and terrible voice acting, and although often entertaining certainly didn’t ever resonate on a deeper level. Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo feels like a game of that time. When fiction writer Ed Miller crashes his car and kills his family by driving them off a bridge, his life is completely shattered. After a failed suicide attempt he’s taken home and the tragic events leave him with the worst case of vertigo that doctors have ever seen. TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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Unable to even get out of bed, a friend of Ed seeks out a professional to help him recover. This is easier said than done though. You see Ed isn’t particularly impressed by psychiatrists. To say he’s rude and uncooperative would be an understatement, with such classic lines as “Doctor? Doctor of what exactly, Doctor?”. Despite his resistance it’s clear that Ed needs the help, because there’s no record of his family and no sign of them after the accident. With the help of her ability in hypnotherapy, the doctor tries to help Ed overcome the trauma of the incident and his past to try to help him walk again. Throughout the game you play as three characters. First and foremost there’s Ed, who you play as during the flashbacks during therapy. There’s also the doctor, who as well as helping Ed has her own issues to deal with between sessions. Finally there’s a sheriff, who is investigating the crash and thinks it may link Ed to a murder that happened on the same day.

An original story about obsession

The three perspectives have varying levels of entertainment, usually based on how much adventure game style item examining you need to make your way through. As the Sheriff especially you’ll be doing a lot of wandering around environments and making sure you check everything. The first time you play as him is especially painful. It’s a scene where you’re tasked with investigating a local farm, and before the game lets you in the farmhouse you have to interact with every little glowing orb and check the door multiple times before it lets you in. When the pace of the game is this level of glacial is when Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo is at its worst, but fortunately the other characters are usually more entertaining. The vast majority of the game takes place during Ed’s hypnotherapy sessions, which see you exploring his memories to see if his troubled past can explain recent events. It turns out our Ed is dealing with a tremendous amount of trauma, but you wouldn’t be able to tell from his own descriptions of events. Automation The Car Company Tycoon Game

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This is where the hypnotherapy comes in. After Ed has told you about his life, you can go back into the story and rewind and fast forward it to find things that look out of place. It sounds like this involves a thorough investigation, but in practice the game tells you where to look pretty directly. It’s really interesting when you first realise that Ed’s version of events don’t quite add up, and a fun childhood game of pirates turns out to be a mission to fetch his Dad’s whisky without letting Mum find out. Your enjoyment of Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo hinges almost entirely on how much you “appreciate” the voice acting. The delivery of some of the lines is just baffling, and coupled with the iffy writing there were times where I completely lost track of what the characters were trying to convey. More than any other game this year Vertigo made me laugh out loud with impressive regularity, and although I doubt this was the intent of the developers I have to admit I always looked forward to playing more.

Live a powerful narrative experience

I also need to mention the load times, which are wild considering I played the native PS5 version of the game. Every scene has a lengthy loading screen bookending it, and it gets very old very fast. I’m not somebody who usually cares about or even notices bad load times, which I’d say isn’t a good sign. Alfred Hitchcock Vertigo has some interesting themes, but ultimately the voice acting and tedious adventure game sections will lead to many putting the controller down. The hypnotherapy sessions are interesting, but unless you really get a kick out of early 2000s style voice acting it’s a difficult one to recommend. What’s in a name? When it comes to Alfred Hitchcock – Vertigo, quite a lot. Without the reference to the famous director and one of his greatest films in its title, this offering from developer Pendulo Studios would have at least made for an enjoyable few hours with its wild turns of events, despite being a little rough around the edges. Auto Chess PS5

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Whilst that is still true regardless, the added weight of its namesake masterpiece and the iconic filmmaker behind it only serves to make some of the game’s bumpier moments look worse in comparison. It’s important to know that the story doesn’t follow that of the film Vertigo at all. Instead we follow the plight of one Ed Miller, who at the beginning of the game wakes up after supposedly crashing his car off a cliff, which he claims had a woman named Faye and his baby daughter inside. But after being stopped from plunging off the bridge in a dramatic suicide attempt, it’s soon revealed that Ed’s story might not be completely true. In fact, no one can find any record of any bodies in the wreckage – or even that Ed ever had a daughter. Beginning to doubt his own version of reality, Ed soon loses the plot entirely, to put it mildly, finding it difficult to even get out of bed or stand up straight without fainting. (That’s vertigo for you!) Dr Lomas, a psychologist

Explore several timelines

Is called in to try to help Ed get to the bottom of what’s going on. Meanwhile, Officer Reyes is investigating a local murder, and has his suspicions that Ed might have had something to do with it. Throughout the game you’ll play as all three to work out what really happened. You’ll do this by moving each character through the 3D environments (you can use keyboard and mouse but the game says that using a controller is the way it is meant be played), choosing dialogue options and even taking part in Quick Time Events to pick up a bottle of wine or take part in a complicated secret handshake, for example. Unfortunately, it feels like both elements have been implemented purely because that’s what these kind of modern adventure games tend to have rather than to enhance the gameplay. There’s no jeopardy in any QTE because the majority of them are just simple actions which could easily have been completed with the click of a button – fail it and you’ll just have to do it again

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rather than, say, something bad happening to your character. And whilst the different answers available in conversation will change the response you get from whoever you’re talking to, these feel like a bit of a wasted opportunity, as they won’t alter the story at all – which doesn’t have any branching pathways – or ultimately affect the ending of the game, as there’s only one. Most of these options are timed too, which seems a little strange given that they are of no real consequence. There aren’t really any puzzles in the game, except for finding and collecting obvious items needed to progress a certain objective. As Dr Lomas, though, there will be several instances in which you’ll need to hypnotise Ed to delve deeper into his memories. This is done through quite an interesting mechanic some might recognise from Cyberpunk 2077. Using the shoulder controller buttons to move along a timeline, you’ll scrub through a scene of one of Ed’s memories once played through initially, stopping at certain key points to target

A particular object to ask Ed more about, and maybe unlock what he’s hiding deep inside his subconscious. Whilst this helps break up some of the longer non-interactive scenes and is a clever way of gamifying psychology, it might have been helpful to include some way of skipping having to rewatch the scene again before being able to scrub through it. It’s still a welcome addition, just a little clunky. What also adds a lot of additional time-padding to Vertigo is the sheer number of loading screens involved. I’m not one normally to really mention if there are a few pauses here and there in games where new locations need to load up, but the number of times I had to wait a few minutes to get to the next scene, only to be met by another loading screen not long after a brief bit of gameplay, was enough to nearly want to make me go all Norman Bates on my computer. More than anything, for a game that thrives on suspenseful twists and turns, having so many pauses and breaks shatters any tense build-up or shock reveal that might have been coming. A Dance of Fire and Ice

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