So I played "Hell is Us" | Act One — Grief
7⚠ ️ You might want to watch this one at 1.25x or 1.5x speed. There's a lot of reading and working through puzzles.
"Hell is Us" by Rogue Factor is a strange beast. Part action RPG, part puzzle game, part eldritch horror title, part history lesson and social commentary, it features generally decent combat, a lot of "Resident Evil"-style puzzles, and is now, I believe, the game that takes the title of "videogame Demajen has had to make the most written notes for". So that's something.
I finished the main story (and a lot of side content) in "Hell is Us" after just under 23 hours, with a fair chunk more to go to really flesh out my understanding of the game's world.
This is a pretty unedited compilation of my Act 1 experience.
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00:00:00 - Stuff From the Demo
00:57:40 - Stuff I haven't Played Starts Here
03:22:40 - Session 2
03:31:38 - Vyssa Hills
04:06:23 - Watcher's Nest
04:29:12 - Tania & Research
04:34:33 - Back to Senedra
04:58:08 - Sendra Vault of Forbidden Knowledge
05:03:14 - Session 3 - Some Good Deeds
05:08:44 - Back to Jova
05:38:05 - Nyssa Hills - Exploration & Side Stuff
06:06:40 - Back to Jova - More Side Stuff
06:17:56 - Lake Cynon
06:28:43 - Lymbic Forge
07:28:19 - End of Act One - Key of Grief
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ABOUT THE GAME
If war is the closest we get to hell on earth, it's because Earth harbours the worst of demons: humankind. In an isolated country ravaged by infighting, discover the secrets of your past and deal with the repercussions of a mysterious calamity.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1620730/Hell_is_Us/..
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