Absolute WORST controls ever

If youre looking for a game with an annoyingly huge file size, awful controls, boring gameplay, poorly designed puzzles that are often non-intuitive, and a cliched story about an amnesiac who wakes up in a strange place thats not only disjointed but also told in poor English, then "In Fear I Trust" is the game for you. Lol.

Seriously, the controls are the worst in the App Store. You have a choice between the unresponsive tap to move/swipe to look around (actually the lesser of 2 evils) or an archaic joystick that makes movement so arduous that walking across the room will make you feel like youre trekking up a Himalayan mountain in a blizzard. And the game takes forever because of the terrible, terrible controls. The desire you naturally have as a player to explore your surroundings is gone, having been replaced by the more urgent desire to limit frustration by moving as little as possible. Made gameplay so tedious I could barely get past episode 1.

But enough about the controls. I guess all those 5-star ratings are from people who either havent played games with decent controls or think that players deserve to be punished. As far those praising the storyline, um...what storyline? You mean the one about the amnesiac who wakes up in a creepy place with no memory of how he got there and now has to find a way out? Seriously? Because thats so new and interesting! Every scrap of paper you pick up is supposed to further the storyline, but it doesnt. Its all the same repetitive stuff about scientists experimenting on humans in a grisly manner. A true story never emerges, and 90% of the gameplay consists of you wandering around in various rooms picking up either these, um, papers of insight or cassette tapes randomly strewn about. Oh, to see the tapes, you need to activate ghost-vision mode, which is annoying because it gives you the answers to all the puzzles and shows you where all the collectible items are located. Way to go, developers.

florawynncw about In Fear I Trust