Michigan Report from Hell | Full Game Walkthrough | No Commentary
114It's time for another horror game and today we archive one that is also arguably one of the strangest games ever made. It released back on the Playstation 2 in Japan and Europe, but never had an American release.
The game has a very original concept in that you play as a cameraman for a television broadcast and you and the team of reporter and sound operator will do reporting in Michigan amidst an invasion of terrible monsters.
Rather than an action game it plays like an adventure game where you have to find certain key items in the enviroment in order to solve puzzles and progress the story. Rather than picking up the items yourself, you point them out to the reporter and she will pick it up to be used later. The same goes for combat as you point out the enemies and the reporter shoots. The sound guy is mostly there to tell terrible jokes.
And speaking of terrible...the voice acting is this game might be one of the worst voice acting performances I have ever heard. But it is also hilariously bad at the same time so I did laugh multiple times while playing this. The fact that it made me smile did make it more bearable.
It also has a very original concept in that if a reporter get caught, you can still continue the game with a different reporter who actually has different voice lines and voice actress. Now in order to do this it must mean you have to fail certain sections so its a bit difficult to portray, but in a way this played a bit like a rogue type game way ahead of its time.
Though I sound pretty positive it is quite a chore to play this game and it can often be a rather tedious experience. Yet there is literally no other game out there like this and therefore it deserves to be archived and remembered since this is one of those super obscure titles. Glad to report in and add these to the archives! Now for the weather report!
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