For what this season was, it was not too shabby!
This series seems reall solid so far! Great story telling so far to boot! Had me hooked for sure.
The whole ghost hunting mechanic was actually well done. Using the EMF seemed pretty easy, and switching over to the spiritbox once at the hotspot and trying to talk to the ghost. This game did a great job at capturing it for sure!
The only problem I ran into was performance. In the first stage where we are trying to bless the house, the games performance seemed to be rough. I disabled V-Sync and that improved it by a lot but I still felt a mouse delay even if the frame rate was improved. All this resolved itself once I completed the level and went onto the hotel section.
I see there are steps to fixing this, by deleting a options file forcing a reset. But a game should not require this, especially when freshly downloaded. A lot of people do not particularly like messing with game files and like to run with the game as is. From the fear of breaking something. I personally ran the game as is from download. From my knowledge of having played 2000+ games over the span of almost half a decade, the first level has some iffy optimization. The game may be rendering areas the player cant see, and may be rendering the whole outside which we really dont get to see much of aside from the front lawn where we are walking up. I would try to pinpoint the exact problem in that specific stage and try to mitigate or fully resolve the problem. As having the player needing to do something with the game files to have the game function better is a bit of a turn off.
Overall though, this series seems really promising! Only issue I had was performance. Made a video on it.
My specs are as follows. What the game was ran on:
CPU: Ryzen 7 5800x 8-Core Processor.
GPU: RX 6600
RAM: 32 GB 3200MHZ.
Main storage which game was ran on: 1TB WD BLACK SSD.
Motherboard: TUF Gaming B450M Plus 2
Power supply: 800 Watts