Even The Maw looks straight out of Pan’s Labyrinth. The puzzles feel classically Resident Evil and the bending and changing walls of Niwa put me right back into Beacon Mental Hospital in The Evil Within. The environment of the spirit world looks ripped out of a Silent Hill game with their terrifyingly built monsters, dripping scenes and fleshy walls. The Medium looks as if Resident Evil, Silent Hill and The Evil Within all had a wild night, someone got pregnant and Maury said they are all the father. Immediately after you arrive at Niwa, you begin to see the game’s influences. To be honest, I would have rather just had the ability to switch between, therefore widening their audience by releasing it on last-gen consoles as well. The idea is pretty interesting but I found myself enjoying the game more when the dual realities WEREN’T involved. This means that if the way is blocked in the physical world, but not in the spirit realm, you can have an out of body experience, get what you need and return to your body. The screen splits like a Borderlands game and you play as Marianne in the physical world and the spiritual world simultaneously. One of the biggest gimmicks about this game is the fact that a third of it takes place in dual reality. These specs would be the reason that The Medium was passed for the last-gen consoles but what I don’t understand is WHY it needed that much power. I would also like to note that the game on PC is 38G and not 30, so I would have at least 40G available for good measure. ![]() SOUND CARD: DirectX compatible, headphones recommended VIDEO CARD: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon R9 390X (or equivalent with 4 GB VRAM) The minimum specs on this game are crazy with a requirement of:ĬPU: Intel Core i5-6600 / AMD Ryzen 5 2500X After the nightmare was trying to get your hands on a next-gen system, there are many who will not be playing this game, especially without a dedicated gaming computer. While I anticipated the same for The Medium, what I didn’t expect was the game being exclusive to Series X/S. In her effort to find Thomas, she must also free the spirits and avoid detection by The Maw and the otherworldly monsters that roam the spirit world as well as learn about herself, her past and her connection to Niwa.Īfter Bloober Team was acquired by Microsoft, their Blair Witch game was released as a PC and Xbox exclusive, which wasn’t a surprise. Aside from the standard lost spirits, Niwa is host to some terrible monsters, one of the worst being a monster called The Maw who is desperate to wear Marianne as a fashionable skinsuit. The Niwa Resort is rumored to be the home of a massacre decades earlier and Marianne believes the rumors to be true after she finds the resort to be filled with spirits that need to cross over. Sadness wants to play and will help Marianne find Thomas in exchange for a little bit of company. Immediately upon arriving, Marianne is greeted by the one-armed spirit of a young girl named Sadness. He calls Marianne to the long-abandoned Niwa Resort and gives no additional information. She then immediately gets a phone call from someone named Thomas claiming to be a medium too and in desperate need of help. While processing Jack’s body for the funeral, she finds Jack in his old office and helps him cross over. Marianne exists in reality and the spirit world simultaneously, meaning she can help confused spirits of the departed find their ways home. Jack owned a funeral home and because he dealt in the business of death, he helped Marianne come to terms with her abilities as a medium. Jack raised her after her family was killed in an accident and she was left in the hospital as a baby burned and alone. ![]() ![]() The Medium follows a woman named Marianne in Poland as she takes care of her foster father’s funeral. There are some mild SPOILERS ahead, so be mindful. ![]() This game hits some highs but it hits some lows and leaves players with more questions than what we started with. After Layers of Fear 2, Observer, Observer Redux and Blair Witch, there was a high bar placed for The Medium long before its release.Īs I said, I was convinced I knew what I wanted to say about this game but the more I played, the more confused my mind became and the more conflicted are my feelings. Bloober Team has been pushing out solid games since they released Layers of Fear back in 2016. I thought I knew going in exactly what I was going to say about this game.
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