![]() ![]() This can feel like it takes ages as you can be waiting up to about three minutes wondering if the game is going to crash or not. It needs to be addressed immediately, however, before we go any further that one of the first things you'll notice when starting a new game - which is preceded by a simple yet clean main menu - is the egregiously long load times that is without a doubt the worst when starting up the game whether for the first time or to load a previous save file. ![]() Lust from Beyond, like its predecessor, combines the elements of desire, fascination, and fear to help keep its story and gameplay gripping, with twists and challenges in just about every corner. Playing as Victory Holloway, your goal is to find answers to all the strange dreams you've been having - dreams that don't seem remotely normal and clearly hold some sort of message or destiny - and doing whatever it takes to unravel the true meaning of the abhorrent visions he's been having where pain and pleasure know no difference. Lust from Beyond, much like Lust for Darkness before it, continues its shock-from-imagery approach while making sure to continue providing an engaging experience that keeps things memorable aside from just remembering what it is that you saw, but making sure that feeling of uncertainty and discomfort lingers well after you've finished playing, but also have this odd sort of pull that makes you gravitate towards coming back and getting all collectibles and achievements as Movie Games does a great job at having a structured and competent design philosophy that puts in just enough depth where it matters without fully overwhelming the player or making the game feel like it's overstaying its welcome. It's easy to look at Lust for Darkness's erotic dressing as a sort of exploit to immediately gaze towards it and wonder just what's going on, but truthfully Lust for Darkness and Lust from Beyond both do it in a sort of tasteful way that more so accentuates the narrative and religious undertones that drive its gameplay and use anatomical references as a way to sculpt its unique environments, statues, objects, and the like to give its canvas of eroticism while something much more sinister is going on. Whether in the presence of a malevolent force, in a haunted building, or on sacred grounds, the feeling or uncertainty and eeriness can be painted many different ways, and in the case of Lust from Beyond following up from its 2018 predecessor, Lust for Darkness, it focuses on the occult and erotica to define and showcase its psychological freights. The beauty of the Horror genre is that it can come in all different sorts of presentations and aesthetic, each with its own theme that aims to provoke and illicit emotions and reactions that can range anywhere from terrified to repulsed, flummoxed to deranged, and beyond. ![]()
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