Downfall horror game review

That is something YOU will decide, as you join him on his journey for redemption Mature Content Description The developers describe the content like this: Contains occasional graphic violence and strong language. Published under license by Screen 7. See all.

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Deciding that they aren't getting any closer to their destination for today, Joe checks them in at the local Quiet Haven Hotel and rent a room there for the night.

And then, things go downhill from there. First, Ivy keeps muttering about the hotel, repeatedly claiming there is something wrong about it, before she drags Joe into a bizarre argument about their troubled marriage. Joe just brushes it off as her psychosis talking, but then Ivy disappears mysteriously, and the hotel has even more mysteriously changed into something horrible, like it was taken out of her macabre ramblings, having rooms covered with carnage and debris, walls coated with blood and weird messages, and a dining room full of faceless corpses, and a strange, clearly malevolent figure stalking the hallways, armed with an axe.

Now Joe, along with a mysterious woman named Agnes, must find Ivy somewhere in the nightmarish hotel before it's too late. One is depressed, curled up in a fetal position on a chair, begging Joe to kill her.

One is bulimic, too self-conscious to confess her love for an asshole who calls her a fat cow. One represents how Ivy sees herself, overweight and leaning against the wall of a bathroom, surrounded by similarly overweight women who have all killed themselves. The final Sophie is a giant, hideous, blob of a woman, covered in large gashes — a combination of each previous incarnation pushed to their extremes. At first, he kills with kindness, injecting the depressed Sophie with a poison that kills her… not painlessly, but at least quickly her head explodes.

Next, he kills the overweight Sophie by blowing her up off-screen. Again, a quick death if not a painless one. Then things get gruesome. He gives the bulimic Sophie a smoothie made from a human head, causing her to vomit endlessly until she shrivels into a skeleton. Before the final Sophie, we get our hands on a chainsaw, and Joe turns into Jack Nicholson from The Shining , stomping around a hotel shouting death threats, pissed off and ready for a slaughter. He sees himself as the doting husband, always so supportive, so understanding, and so caring, but ultimately helpless.

Frustrated by her backsliding into bulimia, angered by her sad bouts of silence, and enraged by his inability to change her. Despite that violence, Downfall wants us to be sympathetic towards Joe. For so long Joe has been unable to help Ivy, and now he finally has the opportunity to get rid of her demons.

Joe has our sympathy, so we excuse his violence. The Cat Lady wants us to understand the thought process behind suicide, though it argues for life.