But it’s truly disgusting, not to mention anatomically incorrect, although there’s possibly a reason. The second one of these is so awful that I won’t offer any description. I had to translate them the old-fashioned way, which greatly irritated me, especially since there were so many messages to decode. The included notations on translating the Morse code were also indecipherable to me. This is the one that I thought was tied to extra endings, but doing it didn’t change anything. There’s also a surprisingly in-depth optional side quest that requires you to translate and send actual Morse code messages. For instance, you can find a bicycle pump to fill a bicycle tire with air, which will allow you to get around faster. This isn’t the first game to have a dark room, but it’s well done here all the same.Īs you progress, you’re given new tasks to accomplish, many of which are marked on your map.
After taking photos, pictures can be developed by heading to the darkroom in the house’s cellar, which has a semi-realistic, simplified minigame where you expose, print, and immerse the photo.
Some photo ops are hidden and can only be taken with an IR lens. The outlier is that Giulia can take photos with her camera. There’s no fighting, no stealth, nothing like that. You walk around and interact with things in order to progress the story. The thing is, Martha is deaf and mute and Giulia is now pretending to be her.Īs far as gameplay goes, this is a fairly standard first-person narrative adventure. Giulia drags her back to shore, only to put on her locket and pass out when her parents find the two of them. Instead, she finds her floating face down in the water. One morning, Giulia, the daughter of a Nazi general stationed in Italy, goes looking for her twin sister Martha at the lake where the two agreed to meet. Martha is Dead is set in Italy circa 1944.
But it has an intriguing story and a well-realized setting that make it easy to recommend to anyone fond of psychological thrillers, even if the game is sometimes too edgy and grotesque for its own good. Martha is Dead may not make the most sense and it isn’t lengthy or full of gameplay. If this game was bad or shoddily put together, then, sure, I probably would, but I need to give credit where credit is due. But you know what? Beyond this, I’m not going to do that. For a while, I was leaning towards making jokes referencing the meme that many people will think of when they read Martha is Dead‘s title.
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