Ian's powers give Past Cure's story an extra sci-fi element, but they are criminally underused. The lengthy tutorial section shows how you can.

Oh, Past Cure, I really did want to like you. Aside from having what came across as an interesting premise for a psychological thriller, maybe it was just my natural desire to see promising new IPs and indie titles to succeed that drew me to it, especially when you have an eight-man studio working on the game, giving me hope that we might have another scenario here where the little guy proves that it can can deliver “triple-A” entertainment just as well, a real underdog story. Deep down, I knew there was an obvious chance it could backfire, that things wouldn’t turn out that way. But I did not expect to be disappointed this hard. I hoped for a miracle cure but would have settled for a placebo, yet instead what I got was closer to syrup of ipecac.There were a few notable warning signs that should have tipped me off, though.

One was the fact that the PC version isn’t exactly optimized that well, so despite having a new machine less than two months old, I had to knock the graphics setting down to Medium to get any decent gameplay (on a related note, sorry about any screenshot quality). The second sign was that despite trying to play with a controller at first, the game kept displaying only keyboard and mouse prompts. Then there was the use of cinematic letterbox during gameplay, which was an annoyance, but not a dealbreaker. But then the game opened with, of a all things, a wave-based shooter where monstrous porcelain figures entered glowing doors as I had to shoot at them, and if even one got within a certain radius of the player character, it was instant death. Not a hit, mind you, they just get close and then our hero apparently just gives up and stops shooting despite still being at point blank range. Not exactly the best first impression, to say the least.The setup is that you play as Ian, an elite soldier who, after being captured three years ago, suddenly reappears with no memory of what happened and signs that the was experimented on, dependent on mysterious blue pills called “The Blues” to keep his sanity in check, still fighting off nightmares with every sleep.

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One day, however, Ian’s brother Marcus comes across a tip that might lead them to the people behind all of this, so an armed Ian sets out to try and discover what happened, naturally getting dragged into something even more mysterious as things progress, going into bizarre territory.The opening moments get you used to Ian’s world via a series of tutorials. First there’s the aforementioned wave-based shooter in a haunted house for gun mechanics, then you go around Ian’s house learning of other combat techniques and how you take his Blues, then it’s back to a modular dream world where you learn of Ian’s various powers via way of a few puzzles. It’s your standard set of tutorials that get you used the game, all of which would be perfectly fineif all of these tutorials didn’t make up the entire first three chapters of a seven-chapter game. To put it bluntly, length isn’t exactly one of Past Cure’s strong suits, and it doesn’t make the most of its time. You can beat it in about five hours or so, with the only obstacles being the aforementioned one-hit kill enemies or gunfire that can rip through your health bar before you have a chance to heal, in some obvious fake difficulty.

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But despite having some repetitive environments, the opening chapters do nicely set the mood, with unsetting and surreal imagery of shifting, marble-white walls, creepy porcelain figures with glowing red eyes, mazes that crumble as you walk through them, and bizarre disease-like growths on the walls, contrasted with Ian’s regular life.