Shines Over: The Damned Review (PlayStation 5)

by Jim Smale · March 28, 2024

Shines Over: The Damned Review, You have no name, no memory, no weapons. There are no friends to protect you. You are alone except for your faithful German Shepherd dog, who will guide you through this dark world and stay by your side. Immerse yourself in a mysterious and terrifying walking simulator with your faithful companion, where jump scares, tension, and environmental puzzles surround you, and danger lies in wait.

Shines Over: The Damned Review Pros:

Decent graphics.
2.14GB download size.
13 trophies.
First-person view.
Walking Simulator gameplay.
Tutorial pop-ups as you play.
Awesome-looking locations and vistas.
Quick-time events trigger throughout, you get the button prompts.
Cool-looking location font pops up as you explore.
The game is split into chapters.
Relatively simple controls.
Puzzle elements throughout.
The atmosphere is really good.
At times you get flashes of weird creatures or movements within the world.
Jump scares plenty.

Shines Over: The Damned Review Cons:

No Platinum trophy.
Doesn’t have a pause menu.
Never sure when the game checkpoints.
You don’t have any game settings.
A lot of flashing lights.
If you go back to the menu early in the game it replays the whole unskippable cutscenes and has you starting at the beginning again.
Judging and using the jump is frustrating as it’s such a small jump arc, judging jumps is not great with the camera angle.
The game is just about trial and error, jump around die, and maybe get the pillar or platform to show then move on and repeat.
The game flow is slow and frustrating.
Cannot remap controls or even see what they are for reference.

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