The audio balancing is a mess, but at least the score and vocals shine through. The only well-executed aspects are the music, voiceovers, and the photography. Taken altogether, the narrative feels hastily assembled and really needed editing. There’s a random puppet show aside with the Grim Reaper that feels like it’s the ending, but then the story just keeps going, heedless. Other attempts to shock the player just leave you raising your eyebrow. The most supernatural element in the game segues from a threat into an asset strikingly quick. The minigames can’t hold a candle to actual survival horror mechanics, robbing you of any sense of immersion.
I’d love to say it’s in service to some jaw-dropping horrors, but Martha Is Dead has no real tension outside of its first hour. This isn’t even a particularly high-fidelity game.
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It got to the point that the game nearly crashed my entire PC with a memory leak so bad I was legitimately scared it had done something to my rig. There’s also a barely functional bike and bugs that can send you spinning in place out of nowhere. The accommodations for accessibility are extremely lacking. Another requires you to translate Morse Code, with a translation key that’s hard to read on a 50 inch TV. One key moment relies entirely on a sound that’s hard to narrow down I’m not sure how a deaf player could navigate this sequence. You’ll never know which quests will suddenly drag the plot forward, with next to no sign posting to guide you. The inconsistent pacing doesn’t help with this. There’s no central gameplay loop – at best, it’s a walking sim peppered with unpleasant QTEs and minigames. Calling it a horror game is generous, as midway through it turns into a PBS drama. Despite a great premise, Martha Is Dead is wildly unfocused. Well, until it doesn’t for long stretches of time. Pretending to be Martha affords you the ability to freely investigate – at the cost of haunting visions. When your identical twin sister, Martha, is murdered, it’s up to you to solve what happened, while masquerading as her.
Set in World War II Italy, you play as Giulia, the teenage daughter of a German general hiding out in the remote countryside. Surely it must be a gripping horror game, right? Martha Is Dead from developer LKA is a psychological thriller that has garnered considerable attention between a controversial face-cutting scene and Sony censoring such content for the PlayStation version.