Smooth gameplay, crushing difficulty, and a delightfully creepy atmosphere make Dementium Remastered a must-play for any survival horror fanatic with a Nintendo 3DS. Renegade Kid was successful on all fronts, and though some of the original’s flaws remain, this is a fine addition to the 3DS eShop. He has … Today, I’m going to talk about a title that I have been looking forward to for most of the year: Dementium Remastered. It’s a genius design choice, and one that managed to constantly keep me uncomfortable from start to end. Much more interesting was getting to explore the mysterious hospital. Dementium makes a statement right from the start with an incredibly strong opening. Since handhelds can’t produce startling visuals that will scare players, Renegade Kid instead focused on fantastic sound design to make the short journey a terrifying one. The ending was the rotten cherry on top that just screams directly into your face "find out what happens next in the sequel.". Even if it only lasts for a few terrifying hours. If anything Dementium Remastered is like a combination of all the bad parts of the Silent Hill games with repetitive enemies, copy pasted environments, and dull combat, only way worse. Dementium Remastered (3DS eShop) Review. While wandering through these repetitive hallways, you'll be tasked with using either the ABXY buttons or the stylus to aim your guns and melee weapons. There is one downside to carrying a weapon, however, and that is due to the character no longer using their flashlight. The player wakes up in a dark blood stained hospital, armed with nothing but his sanity. Originally released on the Nintendo DS back in 2007, Dementium was originally pitched to Konami as a portable edition of Silent Hill, and you can certainly feel that here.While the game has a lot to admire, we couldn’t help but shake the feeling that this was a tech demo for another series. The image above is to the PC version of Dementium II HD. Enemies are monsters and abominations that wander around, trying to kill William. Dementium: The Ward is a survival horror first-person shooter game developed by Renegade Kid for the Nintendo DS. 1 Story 2 Chapters 3 Weapons 4 Enemies 5 Remastered 6 Reception: In Dementium: The Ward, you play as a man named William Redmoor who suffers from amnesia. The original came out on the Nintendo DS as Dementium: The Ward way back in 2007 as a relatively uncommon survival-horror experience for the system. The game was released in North America on October 26, 2007, published by Gamecock Media Group. If you're hoping for a story at all, you'll be disappointed. From what I’ve heard of the original, this one has ironed out a lot of the creases although there are still a fair few present that prevent it from being a must have title. I opted to use mostly the stylus even though holding the 3DS with one hand caused a bit of cramping during my playtime, as buttons just didn't provide the precision needed. Dementium Remastered has all the technical qualities to be a good remake...except being an outstanding game. It was developed by Renegade Kid and published by Gamecock. and they wouldn't have been wrong. by Zachary Miller - December 2, 2015, 6:33 pm PST Discuss in talkback! If you’re looking for some portable scares, then you can’t do much better than this. Enemies are more terrifyingly aware, light realistically illuminates surfaces and each shadow is pregnant with despair. Prior to now I had never played the original games, but I figured if it was good enough to get a remaster, surely I'd like it?I was wrong, dead wrong. That is two and a half hours of my life I'll never get back. They could have called this Dementium: Spooky Hallways or Dementia: Have I Been Here Before? You start out waking up in a mental institution. Aiming in the dark makes for a tense, but annoying affair. Dementium Remastered for the Nintendo 3DS looks and plays better than the original, but there are still some annoyances in the control scheme and combat. Considering you can run past most all enemies, I'd probably lean towards them. It deals a moderate amount of damage, dispatching most enemies in 3-4 hits (Original The Ward and Normal Difficulty for Remastered) but has a short range, and is unable to deal critical damage to enemy weak points 9mm Pistol: A basic pistol, It is found in a maintenance room in Chapter 2, dropped by Kraig upon his death at the hands of a Chest Maw. The Best Horror Movies To Stream This Halloween. Overall, Dementium Remastered is an enjoyable survival horror game. Dementium Remastered has few answers for you, but the mystery only enhances its eerie, lonely atmosphere. one can edit. Confronted by the deadly, grotesque surgical experiments that wander the halls, a series of challenging puzzles, and a cast of peculiar characters, he must face his deepest fears, unlock the mysteries of the hospital, and escape with his life. Dementium: The Ward was a Nintendo DS exclusive game released on October 31, 2007. This is part 1 of my capture of me playing through Dementium Remastered for the 3DS. Pure Nintendo recently spoke with Co-Founder and Director of Renegade Kid, Jools Watsham, and was told the development studio will create a remastered version of Dementium II. File:Dementium Remastered Teaser Trailer. Despite the game being broken apart into chapters, you are able to die, and will be teleported several chapters back if you haven’t saved (or there weren’t any opportunities to save). The lowest of the low. Despite not being overly demanding, I always found the puzzle solving to be a fun diversion from the combat that felt okay, but far from great. New Nintendo 3DS owners can use the C-Stick to aim, although it hardly feels ideal. Fuck that. The Cleaver: The first boss of Dementium: the Ward, this boss is found in chapter 4 (The Cleaver). Related Topics: 3ds dementium dementium remastered indie horror nintendo 3ds remaster renegade kid Adam Dodd Gamer, writer, terrible dancer, longtime toast enthusiast. There are plenty of different notes to pick up in the environment that help fill out the story of what is going on, and even some cute nods to previous Renegade Kid games in the forms of posters. 7.5. It’s 2015, and save points should be a thing of the past. About a third of the way through the game you can backtrack a bit to unlock a melee weapon that does the job for everything else. While the visual and audio environments are competent and well implemented, the game loses most of its appeal compared to the original and ends up as a generic title that brings nothing significant to the 3DS library. The Internet Is Loving The First Space Jam: A New Legacy Tra... Marvel Fans Are Losing It Over The New Black Widow Trailer. Dementium was originally pitched by Renegade Kid to Konami as a proof of concept for a Silent Hill game on the Nintendo DS. There is no potential, no depth and no talent. Dementium Remastered aims to bring a classic handheld survival horror game back to life with the power of Nintendo 3DS – and Renegade Kid succeeds in their goal. This is not an emulator. Its left hand is a cleaver and its right is a needle with a green liquid in it that is used as a ranged attack. 356 px. Despite being a remastering of a 2007 Nintendo DS title, Dementium Remastered is full of surprises. There are a few different guns to find through the short stumble through the dark, but they never really come in handy apart from worms and bosses. Konami turned them down and thus we ended up with Dementium: The Ward on the DS instead, which performed well enough to warrant a sequel. Enemies consist of your standard fair of zombies, worms, flies and screaming tongue-waggling decapitated heads (Hey Kids, WANT TO DIE!?) They appear in both games and seem to be surgical creations or monsters from another dimension. Dementium Remastered. There is no potential, no depth and no talent. Rebuilt from the ground up to take advantage of the Nintendo 3DS, Dementium Remastered takes the guts of Renegade Kid's award-winning title and delivers a new and improved atmospheric first-person survival horror experience with enhanced graphics, refined gameplay, high … Eventually, players find a flashlight that helps illuminate the dim surroundings, and later on weapons to combat the mysterious denizens that lurk. Renegade Kid’s latest game manages to blend two genres, horror and first-person shooter, that seem like an awful fit for a Nintendo 3DS title. [This review is based on a retail build of the game provided by the publisher. I found most of these fights to be on the boring side, as each one largely resorts to you trying to stick and move against the dangerous boss. 69 likes. Overall, Dementium Remastered is a solid example of designing around any potential hardware deficiencies. These range from melee weapons such as a nightstick to an array of guns. These battles do have some of the coolest character designs found, though, but it’s kind of a shame that they couldn’t have been used in a more interesting fashion. Still demented after all these years. Unlike the Nintendo DS original, which was a full priced game, Dementium Remastered is only $14.99. It has nothing to offer the world, and will die lonely and forgotten. The Dementium Wiki is a guide to the Dementium video games, that any. The opening just drops you right into a mental ward without much of any information, and barely anything gets revealed throughout the story. Unlike the Nintendo DS original, which was a full priced game, Dementium Remastered is only $14.99. Light puzzle solving is also present, and players have a virtual notebook that they can use to write down passcodes, and other important bits of information. The nub doesn’t manage to replicate the feel of using a joystick, and it feels disjointed. These encounters have the player facing off against fearsome baddies that are giant bullet sponges. which are the creepiest of the bunch, but after seeing them all numerous times they lose their fear factor. Bosses flash red when attacked and are invincible during this time, making boss fights tedious running backwards and attacking for the most part. With Dementium Remastered by Renegade Kid now being in the closing stages of development, it'll help to change that. Dementium Remastered (3DS)Developer: Renegade KidPublisher: Renegade KidMSRP: $14.99Released: December 03, 2015. If anything Dementium Remastered is like a combination of all the bad parts of the Silent Hill games with repetitive enemies, copy pasted environments, and dull combat, only way worse. A remaster of the 2007 Nintendo DS first person horror game Dementium: The Ward with new difficulty modes, control options and a massive visual overhaul. There isn’t a wide array of different enemy types, and the battles were never interesting or fun to participate in. The 3DS version is an enhanced version titled Dementium: Remastered which features similar gameplay although several quality of life enhancements and alterations to improve the … As far as the remastering for the 3DS without having played the original all I can say is I shut off the 3D almost instantly. It was released in 2010 and features many improvements over its predecessor, including different weapons, a larger variety of enemies, the ability to jump and crouch, … The graphics in Dementium Remastered are quite simply leaps and bounds beyond the original. The brief length isn’t a bad thing, however, as a longer adventure would probably overstay its welcome. This is something that will feel natural to new players, and improved for fans of the original. This review is based on the Nintendo 3DS exclusive, which we were provided with. While I never felt like one control scheme suited all of my needs, mainly due to switching weapons being relegated to the directional pad, I was able to experiment enough to make it an enjoyable, if unconventional experience. I ended up using the face buttons to look around, and would quickly switch to using the stylus for any enemy encounters. Support the stream: https://streamlabs.com/manojobs Quer apoiar o canal? Even if it might feel better suited for other platforms. Dementium Remastered takes the grusome guts of the original game and presents them with improved graphics, better gameplay, and high-quality audio on 3DS! Dementium Remastered runs at 60 frames per second on the regular 3DS with 3D on. It has nothing to offer the world, and will die lonely and forgotten.How we score:  The Destructoid reviews guide. Enemies just come right for you and can easily be warded off without much thought, making me question which was more brainless: the AI or the combat? Developer Renegade Kid made an impressive debut back in 2007 with Dementium: The Ward, a survival horror game for the Nintendo DS that was originally pitched as … Other players may enjoy using the C-Stick more than I did, but it seems like the Circle Pad Pro is the way to go, if you still have an original 3DS or XL model. Dementium Remastered also fixes up the save system which was only present in the US release of the original game for what I understand, instead of saving every time you go through a … Dementium II is a survival horror first-person shooter for the Nintendo DS.It is the sequel to 2007's Dementium: The Ward, also for the Nintendo DS.The game was developed by Renegade Kid and published by SouthPeak Games. Dementium Remastered is a solid re-release. This new version completely rebuilds the original DS... Sun 29th Nov 2015 Dementium Remastered tells the tale of a man who awakens to find himself alone in a mysterious, derelict hospital that is frozen in time. A few boss battles take place throughout the game, two of which get repeated. Star Wars: The High Republic Confirms Two Fan-Favorite Jedi ... Robert Kirkman Explains Why He Abruptly Ended The Walking De... Marvel Comics Reveals New LGBTQ Captain America. Despite being a remake of what used to be a retail product, Dementium Remastered is a pretty short game. Standalone Cyberpunk 2077 Multiplayer Game May've Been Cance... Marvel's Avengers MCU Skins Will Be Purchasable With Premium... Alan Wake 2 Reportedly In The Works Under Remedy And Epic Ga... Cyberpunk 2077 Leak Seemingly Reveals CDPR's DLC Plans. It succeeds in making the game scarier, but there isn’t a good reason why the player drops their flashlight when using a one-handed weapon such as a nightstick or pistol. Thankfully, my weariness was unfounded, as the talented indie studio has managed to largely pull off a difficult task. No matter what control scheme you end up choosing, combat ends up being one of the weakest areas for Dementium. First things first, if you were hoping this would fill the hole in your heart that is Silent Hills, it won't. Other control schemes available include using the touchscreen to aim, or using the face buttons. The startling sound design managed to spook me from the very beginning, and the disturbing noises coming from my 3DS speakers constantly kept me on edge. Welcome back all! Dementium Remastered is a modified version of that DS cult-classic that aims to provide better graphics, Circle Pad Pro/C-Stick support, and fine-tuned gameplay. Whether or not that money seems like a good trade-off for a few scary, but flawed hours is ultimately up to each consumer. If you don’t own a Circle Pad Pro, an obscure 3DS accessory that added a second circle pad, then you’re probably wondering how you play a first-person shooter on 3DS. While the Nintendo 3DS isn't the best platform for horror games, Dementium Remastered is a smartly designed romp that still manages to instill fear in players. Before you know it, your adventure through the hospital comes to an end. Doctor Who "Revolution Of The Daleks" Review, Doctor Who 12x10 "The Timeless Child" Review, Doctor Who Season 12x09 "Ascension Of The Cybermen" Review. Renegade Kid has a smattering of control schemes available, although each seems a bit limited. ], Superbeat: Xonic (Vita, PS TV)Developer: NurijoyPublisher: PM Studios, Atlus & ActtilMSRP: $39.99Released: November 10, 2015, Dementium Remastered reviewed by Jed Whitaker, The lowest of the low. It is a survival-horror first-person shooter, with some puzzle elements. No thanks. Due to the game being so dark when not carrying the flashlight it messed with my eyes more than it helped add any depth. Renegade Kid is enhancing the visuals, improving gameplay elements and more with this version of the survival-horror title. The Top 20 Horror Movies Of 2019: Tethered Terrors (Part I). It will only take players 3-4 hours to complete, despite the game’s best attempts at artificially lengthening the experience by using save points instead of checkpoints. Zack Snyder’s Justice League: Justice Is Gray Edition Explained, Doctor Strange 2’s Main Villains Reportedly Revealed, New Rumor Claims Disney Plus Viewership Is Tanking Since Gina Carano Firing, Watch: Tom Holland Becomes Marty McFly In Back To The Future Fan Trailer, Watch: Nicolas Cage Is On The Hunt In National Treasure 3 Fan Trailer, Watch: The Dark Knight Battles Machines In Batman Vs. Terminator Fan Trailer, Amber Heard Reportedly In A Dangerous Position On Aquaman 2, Could Still Be Dropped, Thor: Love And Thunder Reportedly Bringing Back Dead MCU Character, Henry Cavill Reportedly Looking For Another Big Franchise To Join. The lighting of the hospital makes it impossible to see more than a few feet in front of you, which leads to uncomfortably stumbling around the terrifying area. Dementium is a Nintendo DS survival horror first-person shooter video game developed by Renegade Kid and published by Gamecock. Renegade Kid have also stated there are some other tweaks like save points, and enemies don't respawn anymore, something that surely would have made me rage quit the original had I played it. Originally intended to be a Nintendo DS addition to the Silent Hill game franchise Dementium: The Ward brings a bone chilling survival horror experience to the portable Nintendo platforms (DS and 3DS). This led to me discovering that most of the combat was completely optional, as players can conserve their ammo by running past most of the creepy monsters. Sadly, some of the combat is unavoidable and these moments come in the form of the game’s boss fights. 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