The Quarry (2022 Video Game)
5/10
Love/hate
27 June 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This game is right in the middle for me. I really like the plot and theme but there's a lot issues.

My biggest complaint is that the writing and acting doesn't seem realistic in many scenes. Most of the characters don't really react to the horror and danger in a reasonable manner. There's literally a horrifying thing that is trying to kill them and they know it but yet they walk casually through the woods at night having lighthearted conversations about crushes and high-school drama.

The graphics are pretty good but the eyes and the water are terrible. The water looks like something from a PS2 game and they should've tried to avoid water scenes with their low-budget. The characters' eyes seem to be unfocused and staring off in random directions and not towards the other characters that they're interacting with.

This is a somewhat minor complaint but the dialog repeats itself sometimes. I would guess this is a problem with the game trying to piece together all of the different scene possibilities and sometimes results in an overlap of lines.

There's not a lot of free roam in the game but when it is, the viewpoint is very frustrating. It is neither 1st or 3rd person. Instead, it seems like your viewpoint is from a random angle that constantly changes and makes roaming difficult. Not to mention that you can hardly see anything. You also spend a good chunk of tome wandering around mostly empty rooms that have little to nothing to find.

My last complaint is that you don't seem to have much control over your characters. Your "path choices" are always limited to 2 options and sometimes both options are awful and don't make any sense. Most choices are also just dialog options and sometimes seem like it doesn't matter which one you pick because the line that your character ends up saying sometimes sounds like a mixture of both options.

Despite these problems I still find myself wanting to keep playing to get to the end of the story. I might even replay it to try out a few different choices. I'll definitely be going on YouTube to find out all the different endings there are. I do like this horror movie genre of game and I really love the summer camp theme. I'd like to see a few changes in the game and writing and then I think it would be amazing.
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