Ghost Master: Resurrection

“The lack of creativity in these expansions is staggering, relying on peak laziness where mortal characters are shamelessly copy-pasted from previous story missions without even changing their bios.”

“The result is embarrassing; in the drive-in cinema mission, there is a literal duplicate of a character on the map, leaving you with two identical people with the exact same name and biography.”

“Meanwhile, another character gets called into Joe's Diner for interrogation because of the bones found at the old lady's house in a main story mission, which makes absolutely no narrative sense.”

“Aside from the upgraded graphics, this remaster is a total trainwreck of broken mechanics, bugs, and sheer developer laziness that practically plays itself.”

“- Poorly tested gameplay: the Earl from the Headless Horseman mission can return into the magically protected mill after already being exposed, leaving you with no way of scaring him and finishing the mission; your poltergeist-type ghosts will consider their own host a mortal present and keep spamming abilities despite having the order to only do that with mortals present (their host is always immune to their own abilities making it a complete waste); the ghostbusters in the hospital mission can banish your ghosts from across the whole map while not even being present and with no warning given about it; and lots of small overlooked things like this.”

“Lots of bugs, model/texture problems, lots of powers don't work properly (the uneasy mechanic not in the game yet, fool's errand/wild geese send mortals to random locations instead of to a haunter's fetter, manifest powers force nearby mortals to look at them instead of being based on line of sight, shapeshift doesn't work properly, lots of targeting issues, etc.), some puzzles are more inconsistent than they were in the original (like Brigit's puzzle doesn't really work in this game more often than not, when in the original you could set it up pretty consistently), crashes (while playing this update I had the game crash on me 4 times in a row!).”

“As much as I love the original Ghostmaster I just can't recommend this game in good conscience the way it is done at the moment. They changed it into a chaotic mess, where you lose oversight, certain levels are so buggy you need to restart at least two times to manage to beat them, and in other levels you are totally stuck because the way you used to do it has been so completely blocked that you can't use the hunters you'd need to succeed.”

“Very buggy, sometimes even blocking progression, possibly even more so than the old original... but it's early access, so... buy with caution.”

“There are bugs, including map-breaking issues that sometimes require you to replay sections multiple times or follow a very specific sequence of actions to avoid certain glitches.”

“The new music is just bad.”

“Compared to the original, the new OST sucks.”

“Some music didn't make it into this release despite being in the original game. Some new tracks feel like they were composed by AI because the melody makes no sense and takes away from the vibe and suspense. After a while, it becomes nauseating to hear because your brain expects the music to make a statement or conclude a fragment, but it never does.”

“Cheap, worthless cash grab.”

“AI usage involved, aggressive monetization.”

“Predatory monetization.”

“Technical issues, including bugs and occasional performance inconsistencies, can interrupt the flow of gameplay and make certain missions feel more frustrating than intended.”

“It's fantastic you're making a remake of this masterpiece but please do something about the optimization – my PC is about to catch on fire running this.”

“I hope it could be optimized.”

“Like adding difficulty levels (the game has always been ridiculously easy), adding side objectives in missions like 'scare away x person first and y person last' or 'don't use x type of haunter' to make it more challenging and replayable.”

“Levels are replayable for more gold plasma and pumpkins - oh yeah, there are pumpkins now!”