Haunt the Town

I woke up with a hankering for a small bite of game and wandered the vita store looking for an interesting looking game under 5$. Haunt the Town looked adorable, The graphics were simple and with Halloween coming up I was in a haunting mood. I jumped on it. The game loaded up and there my avatar was, a ghost with a long tail. I worked through the quick and well composed tutorial and my game promptly froze. Not to be detoured I closed the game and tried again. And then again. I kept getting crashes. Out of time I put it down for a couple weeks frustrated with my purchase.

I am happy that I open the game back up again this week. When I tried the game out again it ran smoothly and with no bugs. I was able to explore and posses many different objects around the town. Scaring all the towns folks and finding my lost ghost friends.

The game mechanics are straightforward, posses an object and you are able to interact with the world in a limited way. Each time you scare someone it generated a little bit of terror and you slowly unlock new abilities on many of the objects you can posses. At first you can only jiggle a chair or knock a vase off a shelf. Eventually as you terrify an entire stage worth of people with loud blasts from the stern of a ship or bend water with a Eskimo statue. Every level is jam packed with objects to posses and the animations for each are well executed. Many times the result were not what I expected and it was fun to use each one. The people (AI) wandering each stage will get more terrified with each spook. And if you spike their terror well enough they may jump out of windows to escape.

Over all I enjoyed the experience quite a bit and would recommend it to anyone looking for a neat puzzle game with a cute spooky world.  The game is by Super Flash Brothers Games and can be found on Steam and PlayStation Mobile.

http://hauntthehouse.com/
http://sfbgames.com/