Chapters from The Suffering
August 24, 2008 – 4:54 pmThe Suffering is an urban survival horror video game set in secluded Carnate island comprising of Maximum Security Prison, developed by Surreal Software and published by Midway Games. The game has three endings depending upon the course of action taken by the player. Evil, Neutral and Good are the endings a player can achieve. The game basically is set up in Carnate Island where the main protagonist is sentenced for killing his family or so. But what happens to be a straight motive turn out be something else depending upon how you play the game. At the end either you will be exculpated from the blemish of killing your family or you will be held responsible.
The second thing that made me a fan of this game is the villain character design. Dr. Killjoy, Hermes, Horace, Torque’s inner demon, Puritan Girls, WW 2 Colonel and the visions of his family members make it an enriching surreal story. Voice acting for Dr. Killjoy and Hermes is stupendous, I can still feel the deepness and sadism in Dr. Killjoy dialogs.
The last important thing that gripped me to this game was the monster design. Yes, it’s kind of “twist your brain” (David Lynch, anyone ?) and “torment your heart”. It’s unimaginable to predict the very roots of each monster. And always a suspense to know what was the reason behind that monster design. Surreal and twisted imagery.
So here are some of the quotes from this game, yup these are chapter names but serve as quotes too :p
The worst place on Earth
Slumber of the dead
Abbot prison blues
I can sleep when I’m dead
Everything beautiful is gone
Darkest night, eternal blight
Oblivion regained
You’ve mistaken me for someone else
Hate the sin, not the sinner
A lonely place to die
Dancing at the dawn of apocalypse
An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
Who wants to deny forever ?
Death be not proud
Single bullet theory
And a child shall lead them
Last breath before dying
There are quite profanity clad dialogs too. But If you like the concept of this game then do play, its one of its own kind game. Some nice easter eggs too. A reference to Ring, Johnny Cash etc. Hidden goodies like flamethrower etc.
2 Responses to “Chapters from The Suffering”
U play games on Linux itself?
By Su on Sun 24th Aug, 2008
Nope that game was released a long time ago, I was using XP then.
But you can also play almost all games using WINE in linux.
By T on Mon 25th Aug, 2008