I haven't given up on the game just yet, but I'm giving up enough to give you my impressions now rather than when (if) I beat it. Some intruders can get by, but others cannot without ending the game, and it's not totally made clear which ones will be a problem, so you have to memorize everything. Also, someone else controlling your traps can capture the intruders, and you have to quickly disarm their traps if you see this happening. You can let too many intruders get past your defenses (a few are ok, and at times, necessary). You can accidentally let one of the tenants get captured by the intruders. You can accidentally capture one of the tenants, which the game tries to trick you into doing.
You have to observe certain things happening, or else later parts of the story won't unfold. There are a lot of ways to lose in this game. The story does have some fun little plot twists and it really does feel like you are a character in the movie, so it succeeds on that account, but without being able to continue, you'll probably get bored with rewatching it all so much that you won't want to finish (which is where I am at while typing this). And with very limited continues, it means you'll be playing the whole damn thing over from the start many more times than you would like to before you finally get to the end of the story. Other times, however, it's just frustrating because you absolutely cannot miss certain events, even though you might be interested in following others. Sometimes this gameplay is fun when you really feel like you are juggling things well and bouncing between cameras, picking up bits of information and trapping intruders. The problem with this is that you will be forced to miss certain plot points, so if you want to understand the story of the game, you will have to lose a round to watch a video clip in its entirety. You also have to witness certain events to progress, so if you're on camera 1 when the important event is happening on camera 4, then you will miss something that you will need to progress in the game later, though you might not realize that you needed this right away. It takes three taps to load a trap, and a 4th one to set it off, but this must be timed with the enemy tripping the switch, or nothing will happen.
There are lots of fun traps and you get to see a bit of stunt work whenever you spring one on a bad guy.īasically what this means for gameplay, is that there are 6 or 7 movies being run at the same time, and you can cycle through them and trigger quick-time-events when enemies step on your booby trap switches. You are given remote access to the control room, so your job in the game is to monitor the various cameras throughout the mansion and to trip booby traps to restrain the intruders. There is some ancient artifact in the place that they are all after, and it's being passed around through the tenants. Corey Haim has inherited the place and he has installed booby traps throughout the house to protect it from intruders, and there are A LOT of intruders. And there is a musical group trying to score a big recording contract. There is a young journalist played by Deborah Harry who is trying to write a story on the house and the mysteries inside. There's a disinterested landlady who dresses like Cleopatra.
There is a guy named Brutus who appears to be wrapped up with the mafia. The premise is that you live in this giant mansion where different rooms are rented out to different tenants. The performances are good and the game has a madcap fun atmosphere. It stars Corey Haim and Deborah Harry and has music by Thomas Dolby.
I'm so sick of that intro.ĭouble Switch is an interactive movie with gameplay very similar to NIght Trap, which isn't particularly surprising since it was developed by the same company. If you mess up, you can restart at the beginning of the Act, but you can only do that twice, then you have to start at the beginning of the game, which has a long unskippable opening. You have to play on the hardest difficulty setting to play all three Acts. It's starting to piss me off because I keep having to replay so many segments.