Everyone Told Me To Play... TORMENTED SOULS 

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Mayo, I never told you to play tormented souls

I wonder how many people got stuck because of the floppy disk lock. I ran in circles for almost an hour thanks to that and that’s coming from someone who was alive when floppys were still a thing

That “wow, that’s a nice angle, I love it”, is perhaps the very first double entendre on this channel hahaha

15:45 there's a note in the room that shows a image of the valves open and close state. As well as stating there is 3 valves.

Well it took ya long enough!!

Have you ever played Fatal Frame? I highly recommend the first two games. Fixed camera Japanese survival horror. Worth a shot.

Really enjoyed Tormented Souls when I played it. It's a great survival horror game & I wish more devs will do fixed camera angles like this. This game shows that it can still work in modern times. We need more games like this & so glad mayo was able to play this gem.

3:22 I’d disagree, the 90’s horror games had tons of notes/ letters/ books/ journals/ etc., even the games with voice acting from multiple characters made you read a lot if you wanted to fully understand what’s going on. It’s better than the main character pontificating when they’re alone, that’s for sure.

I always thought REmake did a good job of modernizing fixed camera angles. It gave you the option of playing with tank controls or directional.

I was blown away by how well the puzzles, music, graphic, and atmosphere were in this game. Can't wait for the sequel to come out next year!

Fixed camera is peak atmosphere

I get so bothered by folks acting like fixed cameras are just some outdated thing that they had to do in the 90s. I don't want to feel empowered and free in a horror game. That makes it harder to ever be scared.

Tormented Souls is one of my fav horror games of all time. Like a mix of SH and RE1make in terms of level design. Ammo conservation is sooooo important they barely give you any and health is in short supply too. And the story is really well written and i love the metroidvania style of it. The atmosphere is amazing and looks great for an indie title. Glad to see the game get so much love. Great to speedrun as well. Gotta say tho i always love reading notes in horror games. Never gets old for me

Definitely keep an eye out for Echoes of The Living coming up. It looks phenomenal and is another fixed camera throwback style survival horror title. There is a full demo on Steam as well with a planned release this year.

I always love your takes on survival horror

its really heartwarming to see other people who enjoy this type of camera angles and the old school survival horror games. I hope there would be more attention to this genre in future.

13:48 I absolutely loved that puzzle, once you know the first 2 numbers you can also just trial & error it with just one input left, but if you do think about it harder, the symbolism makes it from a fairly good standard puzzle, to an genius one. 15:18 it's been a while, but i'm pretty sure somewhere was an hint about the amount of gascaps that exist at least I remember that I exactly knew that I have to collect 3. Probably somewhere in the notes or something you can examine.

Tormented souls looks gorgeous. The camera is so good.

My favorite puzzle in the game was the compass puzzle at the very end. The game had solid puzzles all around, you gotta try song of horror!

Mayo, i never told you to play Tormented Souls

For the second puzzle I always thought of it as more of an "are to" puzzle. People are to earth, as alien are to starts, pharaohs are to Pyramids, as bees are to hive. Maybe my brain works a bit different but I thought it made a lot of sense once I figured it out.

12:26 Not sure if it matters, but the image of the two humans was one of several pieces of information stored in a capsule that was launched into space decades ago on the off chance it was discovered by intelligent life on other planets. It’s a way for humans to communicate that, “we’re here on this planet, and this is what we look like.”

Me and horror do as well as pizza and gasoline, and yet i keep wanting to see people play it, even with half volume

11:20 just want to point out that wasn't when they were actually born that was just a date they decided on because there was a preexisting holiday that day and they ran with it

One of my favorite aspects about fixed camera angles in survival horror games is sometimes not being able to visualize the location of an enemy if they happen to be in a room with you. When you have to go by sound to decipher which enemies are present, as well as where they are, it makes the game inherently scarier. It's the reason why Resident Evil 1 Remake is my #1 favorite survival horror title. The game masters this art so well. Super happy to see that this classic style of survival horror is making a resurgence with games like Tormented Souls and Signalis :)

Mayo you gotta play dino crisis 1. It's old school survival horror with GREAT puzzles.

Love the video and the channel as always. We gotta get UtM into a gauntlet of slide puzzles.

I'm a fan of the fixed camera and tank controls style as well. I appreciated the video you made suggesting Capcom develop a new fixed cam/tank controls Resident Evil.

My wallet is getting ripped apart. First the Dead Space Remake. Then Resident Evil 4 Remake and then The Last Of Us coming to PC next week. Silent Hill 2 Remake later this year. And now your showing us this masterpiece??? Holy sh!t is this a great year so far if you’re a horror fan

I've never even played an old RE game and those fixed camera angles look fantastic. Then again I've always adapted to games very rapidly, so the controls probably wouldn't bug me. Even motion controls I can always find a way to make work consistantly for me.

Horror has definitely been making waves again lately, especially in the indie scene as well as the modding. I'd reccomend looking at Daymare 1998 if you haven't yet as well as the overhaul mod for RE3 (Lord of Necropolis)

14:11 is my favorite puzzle in the whole game.

I have always liked the journal reading, maybe im just old fashioned

The Monkey puzzle was the only one that got me stuck. However, I didn't feel bad looking up a solution because I knew I could've brute forced the combination eventually if I didn't mind wasting my time. Great game overall and I really enjoyed the puzzles, but agree they were definitely on the extreme side. I think the game could've really benefitted from a puzzle difficulty setting like the Silent Hill games. Not everyone will be able to figure them out, unfortunately.

Omg that clock puzzle! I did a similar thing but I saw the date in the clock and though, oh, that must be related to that calendar I saw right at the beginning of the game, only to spend ages looking for where it was. I actually couldn’t find it and got so sick of looking that I googled it and it said everything is in the room, so I went back and found the forth painting of Christmas Day and felt so stupid 🤦‍♂️

In my first playthrough, I didn't have my system connected to an internet source, so I couldn't get any game updates. Apparently, there was a day one patch/update that changed a lot of things including some camera angles, entire room layouts, and certain puzzles. The TV puzzle was one of the changed puzzles, and not only did the non updated version make no sense to me, but any online help was explaining it based on the updated version so I had to just fumble my way through.

I'm happy you finally got around to playing Tormented Souls and enjoyed it! I understand and agree with all the constructive criticisms you gave. I'm sure for the sequel, they will get it all sorted out if they do it since they've laid the perfect groundwork for a superior sequel. For their first attempt though at trying to recreate what made the classic survival horror special, I think they gave it a solid shot! It's no Resident Evil or Silent Hill, but it deserves some attention from people who like this style of survival horror game and I hope this video helps that along.

This game really scratches that survival horror itch.

Wish they released a costume pack and gun skins - amazing game

This is a GREAT game! Definitely picking this game up physically.

I finished this game with my sister last Christmas and we had a blast. Absolutely recommended.

For some reason, Wizard of Legend popped back into my head. This game though, for sure, is definitely worth a playthrough! The feel of constant uneasiness is off the charts!

A love letter to the old classic survival horrors.

Just bought this last week, sick game!

Really wanted to play this. Went for daymare instead

By the way, been watching Deadwood based on your recommendation and really enjoying it.

Take a shot every time he says “puzzles”

Really funny way I remembered the monkey puzzle with the general evil see no evil speak no evil thing there’s a song I forget which one but Mr. worldwide was singing and he said “I do no evil see no evil speak no evil get it baby” and I was like oh yeah that

I think with a fixed camera method like this they need to add a hiding mechanic, and leave the mc without a gun. so more like a slasher movie

Can anyone tell me whats the theme in the beginning of this video ?

The enemies dogpile me in a corner everytime. They’re too fast and no amount of nails will kill them.

Loved this game!

I absolutely loved your signalis video mayo ❤️

One of the best horror games I’ve played recently

My favorite puzzle was the television.

That alien puzzle was so easy omg 😭👌

mayo you should try killing floor 2. Amazing horde-based shooter specially in coop tho it is also icredible in solo. The mechanics really push you into its systems and it really makes you both think on a trategy and make quick desitions when things get out of control.

Very underrated channel. Very cohesive and well structured reviews. Very well justified opinions that connect with the majority of the OG fanbase. Even the RE3 and God of War reviews. Actually... especially these two.

I tried playing it twice but my game kept crashing at this same spot and was like 20 minutes after a save space so I never finished it due to that.

What's movement like? At some points when your character backs up it looks like tank controls, at others they look agile enough that it's free movement. Is there the option to choose between the two and what do you prefer for this sort of game?

Fixed cam angles that exploit basic photography techniques are genius. Seeing the tilted hallways and camera angles in uncanny positions just sets up the perfect atmosphere for a very clunky and claustrophobic feeling. That being said, old techniques work when used correctly and cleverly. Though it would have been more preferable if a better targeting system is used because games like these can be a lot more tactical than they look. My only real gripe is the overdesigned characters especially the playable model, but I guess it's a callback to very particular flavor of Japanese horror classics, so it's fine.

The monkey and the door puzzles were a bit ridiculous to me, had to look them up (a lot of logical leaps you have to make to make it make sense). Didn't have a problem though with the floppy disk, infinite room, or clock puzzles.

Running around lost, taking your own notes, the joy of getting unstuck is what made those older games slap. No handholding, no Google. Also, for an indie dev, this game is more polished and more survival horror than anything capcom and the like is spewing out these days.

My "I should have waited to approach with fresh eyes" puzzle was the skeleton. I became convinced early on, for some reason, that the first line of the riddle was an intro and not part of the solution itself -- probably because there were five switches and six lines, so I figured it would be hitting each switch once. At some point I straight up abandoned the "hitting each switch once" mentality... but never thought to re-examine my dumb logic of ignoring the first line. Sigh... Some of these puzzles I think just needed something to clue you in when you're wrong. Like the pipe puzzle in the end: if everything I'm doing is blocking leaks and whatnot, then how about when I get it wrong, we see an animation of where the water is leaking? There's too much guess-and-check involved. The hint shows you open and closed, but only for vertical pipes -- so is it closed when the switch is horizontal, or when the switch is perpendicular to the pipe? It's annoying because it's otherwise a good puzzle, but becomes frustrating when I'm just taking guesses what the clues mean (although I think I did figure that one out without looking it up). I looked up the skeleton, the stupid monkey puzzle (ugh), and the floppy overwrite. I thiiiiiink that's all I had to look up but there may have been more. After an hour of running in circles, I just want to progress.

Okay, now everyone (i) is (am) telling you to play the fortune's run demo.

It's pretty cool that Survival horror is making a resurgence but I'm not seeing any innovation or advancement especially in the management of combat and story. We're seeing the same things reskinned with nicely stylized locals but nothing fresh.

Hey mayonnaise you ever hear of endoparasitic? Very cool indie survival horror inspired game.

I love this game. I enjoyed it more than RE Remake and that's no joke.

Mayo, I never told you play Tormented Souls. Play Darkwood

Tormented Souls has excellent tank controls and fixed cameras

the only puzzle i hated was the gas pipes at the end, the layout is intentionally obstructed and there are multiple solutions but only one works that the designer wants

Have you played nun massacre?

Pretty good review Mayo. Nice 👍👍

Brother I know your channel two days ago and tell now maybe I saw 10 videos, your topics, ideas and videos are great specially the one related to survival horror games, I wish to know your opinion and analysis about the evil within 1 and the last of us 1 one day and keep up the great work ✨👏🏼

There's a demo of a game with a similar style it pop up a few weeks ago but I can't remember the name of it

I like the environments, music and enemies in this game but i hate the puzzles

you should plzy Impaler... good video

Bought this a year ago havent started yet

Reminds me of Them and Us.

The only kinds of "entities" that are "extraterrestrials" would be the "angels" or stars.. every star is the "physical" abode or "body" of an angel. The logic behind the puzzle is solid, match the shape/symbol to the "entity".

Great video! There's also an upcoming survival-horror game called "Echoes of the Living" if you're interested :)

How. The absolute FUCK. Did I never hear of this.

mayo should really check out ''detention''

Hello Mayo, Between Alisa, Signalis, and Tormented Souls, how are you going to rank it from 1 to 3? (sry bad english)

i just can't wait till mayo reviews Gta6 when it comes out

Mayo did you play Simulacrum? Its a fun SH clone with tough (but fair) puzzles. Give it a try.

Sorry to be that person but where's the link to your playlist? You said at the end of the vid we'd find it in the pinned comment.

Fixed camera fan? Ever try the wonderful 101?

What's your opinion on remothered?

william wildberger what kinda name is that is he hungry?

I think you would enjoy Void Bastards.

I know you hate camera behind the back but you need to try God Hand

Yeah. Finally. Very good review. Now I'm going to be someone who tells you to play "Fobia: St Dinfna Hotel". Basically Resident Evil 7, if Resident Evil 7 was a proper Resident Evil game. It's not perfect, but for me so far the best real survival horror game in first person. I suggest you give it a shot if you're itching for more survival horror. 👍

I feel proud that this master piece was developed in my country, Chile ❤. I just hope that, with their success, our government realize that we can also be able to design and produce amazing games (like other gaming desingers big companies), and can commit with founds that can help more developers to be seen and noticed.

Slide puzzles are just not fun... Opinion obvs, but damn i dont know anyone that needs a good ol slide puzzle to sleep at night.

You should give Signalis a try if you haven't yet

Do you think the less than stellar voice performance was also meant to be a homage to the old Resi games?

What you say about the old games not relying on note reading is false. The story you see in the game is just surface level in old school RE. The meat and potatoes of the story and the tragedy of it all are in the files and notes.