Goetia (Switch)

 

COME BACK!!!

Finally finished Goetia. I got it when it was released on a whim. Think it was the spooky atmosphere I was promised that made me go for it. Why did it take so long? Well, I played a couple of hours, got stuck and took forever to get back. It's about this wandering spirit Abigail who has to search her old family home to find out what happened with her sister and trying to release the six demons that have been trapped within it. It's a puzzle game and it gives me 7th Guest vibes. It draws you in with the mystery of what happened and then you uncover demon worshippers, souls trapped and ghost towns.

Graphics and music are good, although I wished I could adjust the lightning somehow in game since I can't see everything in the dark. It's fairly long. Total time would be somewhere around 10 hours, but then again, after hour 4 I made sure I had a walkthrough besides me since some of the puzzles are just weird to me. Also the larger areas where you travel back and forth with items makes it harder and harder to solve by my own thinking. 

Finally, I got the good ending... but I though I actually screwed it up. To get the ending you need to gather 4 items belonging to your sisters sons and to get the good ending find the 4 items that completes the items. I had trouble with a picture album behind a safe. I got it... but I couldn't get the album. So I thought I had to get the bad ending first to get it to spawn, I get the ending, resume game after credits and go back and still no picture album. I wonder if it glitched out and finally finding a walkthrough with pictures and such and guess what, it automatically transported to the pillar room. This why I needed more light in the game. Also, I'm not opposed reading a lot in games, but for good sake, the font of the handwriting in many of the notes makes it really hard to understand what happens. Also, the system in where notes are stored are a bit hard to go through for the mansion, since there is so many of them. Don't know how many times I had to start over from the top since I overshot the last page. 

Interesting for one playthrough... and do it at once instead of separating for a couple of years.