In short, it’s been improved by a lot.Īs you play the game, you walk from room to room, hoping to eventually find your way out of the hospital you wake up in. Enemies no longer respawn when you leave rooms, there are manual save points and there are now dual analog controls, thanks to the New 3DS. The original Dementium was a very hard game to get through, and it’s been balanced to be more doable. Since this is essentially a remake, let’s talk about the changes they made. The gameplay mirrors how it was on the Nintendo DS.

For the sake of the horror genre, let’s call it a horror game with shooting elements. It could be labeled as either one, but I think there are more horror elements in play than shooting elements. Gameplayĭementium Remastered is a first-person horror game with some first-person shooting games thrown into the mix. The lack of more story gave it a “This was just a test to see if we could make a horror game work on a handheld” game.

This is a pretty common thing in the horror genre, but I couldn’t help but feel like there should have been more. Even when you get to the end and things are explained, there is a lot that is not explained. It isn’t later that the plot is revealed to you, which I will not reveal because it will give you lots and lots of end-game spoilers.įor overall plot, there barely is any. As the game begins, you’re given no background information, so you just awaken in a dark hospital full of gruesome monstrosities. The plot of this game follows a man that awakens in a strange hospital. This is my official review of Dementium Remastered! Story Past that, the developers deemed it fit to be remade and remastered onto the Nintendo 3DS. The game did well enough that it got a sequel, both on the Nintendo DS and PC. However, Konami rejected it and it became Dementium: The Ward instead. That game was called Dementium: The Ward, and was originally an idea pitched at Konami for a Nintendo DS Silent Hill game. But for a single system, there just isn’t much out there.īack in the Nintendo DS and PSP gen, a horror game came out for Nintendo’s console that helped to push along the idea of horror games working on handhelds. Then you have Silent Hill Origins, Resident Evil Deadly Silence, and a few others.

In this gen, sure, you’ve got horror indies plus Resident Evil: Revelation 1 and 2 which were shooters in horror settings. Even throwing the DS, 3DS, PSP, and PS Vita together, you don’t come out with an abundance of horror titles. Handhelds and the horror genre have a very short history.

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