Kuon

If it isn't already obvious, this game has aged well for Playstation 2 era hardware and not only that, but provides some insight into the workings of famous developer "FROM SOFTWARE." The game is perfectly paced, features one grandiose location and a mystery worthy of any player to solve. The visuals are gorgeous, the attention to detail on the character models are exemplary given the age of the game, and the animation cycle of the Kimono demon-ass-kicking Japanese ladies is quite lovely. Much like Fatal Frame, players will be battling ghosts, demons and other Japanese lore oddities. The standards controls and timing take some getting used to, but overall they are really well done and make you feel like you could easily be in danger from every perilous ghost or Gaki that wanders this Feudal Japanese manor house. With a really simple spell card magic system, that works a lot like most survival horror games, you will want to conserve your spells and do most damage with your basic sword or fan weapon. This puts an interesting twist on the fight-or-flee mechanics as well since you could roast some Gaki alive with a flame spell card or make a mad dash for the next room after a few quick slices from your basic weapon to stun it. Though appearing to be a slow combat based third person horror title, people often forget that even the Fatal Frame series was built on tension and delivered it very well by building up encounters between yourself and the spooky ghosts. Puzzles all have a relatively decent learning curve and I never found anything too difficult. They made sense within the context of the world of the game and were pretty darn interesting and creepy. Here its obvious things went terribly wrong, theirs a curse running amok wherever you go, and the grisly nightmarish noises of something far more sinister waiting for you. I am utterly confused by the reception to this game though, and even if it isn't as popular as Fatal Frame or Silent Hill, its equally worthy of being played and enjoyed as a solid enjoyable feudal-Japanese take on the horror game genre as a whole.

kuon has considerely survival-horror mechanics. the atmosphere, loneliness and the vertigo **** (it scares me everytime) that does fit for atmosphere.from the 1st stage to 2nd stage it creeps me out but 3nd stage is the time of revenge. maybe the gamemaybe the game is could've been maybe 5th-6th stage.

Kuon es un juego tan ambicioso como fallido. Un sistema que no te invita a participar pero que traduce los elementos del survival al canon clásico japonés. Es un juego en esencia que respira a From Software: un universo que tienes que descubrir poco a poco y que requiere de paciencia. El problema es que esa paciencia tiene que trabajar algún elemento sistémico que la justifique y aquí no parece cuajar del todo. Su propuesta es única, sí, pero quizá también innecesaria por la falta de claridad compositiva. Tiene muy claro qué es un survival pero quizá lo que no tiene claro es por qué debería ser un survival si lo que quiere contarte es mucho más sutil. Un juego que se debería haber enfocado de otra manera más dinámica y menos restrictiva porque la restricción no asusta, solo frustra. Lo bueno es que introduce el espacio liminal y una sensación de atmósfera que ayudará en el desarrollo de títulos posteriores de la empresa.

horrible game, the gameplay is slow the game is without action and the ghosts are not scary

Man did i want to love this but it's aged so poorly even for it's time, the save system is terrible and the combat is clunky and the story is flat as a sheet of paper, the only saving grace the game has at all is the graphics are still alright but I did not enjoy my time with kuon