Carrion Reviews
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Carrion is another hit from a publisher that has built its name on delivering to us unconventional and unexpected experiences. Devolver’s seal of approval is more than ever evidence of a classic as Carrion’s credentials as an incredible Metroidvania title as well as an inverse horror experience will never be in question.
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Carrion abounds with the thrills of being the monster, then, but, less common and more cosy, with the kick of being in a monster movie—of slithering in celebration over the tropes of the genre. The good news is that, for a while, it works.
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Reversing the role of hero and villain results in interesting experiences so here's Carrion from Devolver Digital and Phobia Game Studio.
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Carrion is a fascinating reversal of the typical Metroidvania. Playing as a hungry, tentacle abomination is fast, fluid and unnerving. My only complaint is that there is no mapping function, which can make progression a chore.
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Conceptually, Carrion is one of the most promising Metroidvanias in the genre, but without any of the highs that make the standout games of the genre so beloved.
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Carrion snuck out of nowhere, much like the monster you play in it. With such little marketing and fanfare, I didn’t know what to expect going in, but what I found was nothing short of incredible. From its aesthetics down to the core gameplay, there is little I could fault in it. So what is it? Well, the debuting indie devs, Phobia Game Studios, categorizes Carrion as a reverse- horror game. Although this label sounds really cool, it doesn’t say much for how it plays. In actuality, Carrion confidently belongs within the classic Metroidvania genre, where you explore an expertly...
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Carrion is an excellent power fantasy that casts you as the monstrous villain in your own horror film. The wonderfully gloopy animation and conception of Carrion’s meaty monster makes it enjoyable to play, especially when tearing through the unfortunate humans that stand in your way. But dull exploration, a lack of memorable environments and disparate gameplay ideas that never really come together, mean that Carrion never truly reaches its full potential.
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Carrion takes the formula of many of the great 2D adventures that came before it and repackages it with grisly body horror and the twist of being a monster on the loose. It doesn’t change up the formula too drastically with its basic genre mechanics, but it still manages to do everything that it does do near-perfectly in a short amount of time.
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Carrion has some frustrating and tasteless flaws, but it is an enjoyable horror indie title. Go around in this reversed horror game where you are the alien and eat up all of those tasty humans. Our Carrion review will show why the initial bite is tasty, but it has an aftertaste that taints the whole experience, while not ruining the best parts.
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A decent reverse horror title with fluid gameplay and immersive atmosphere.
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Carrion gave me a fantastic power fantasy that I didn’t know I wanted. It makes great use of the Metroidvania archetype and fits its reverse horror movie plot into the most enjoyable six hours I’ve ever had the guilty pleasure of experiencing. The game is available now for $19.99 on Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PC.
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Carrion is, for the most part, a bloody good game. It’s a real treat for horror fans and one of the most original games I’ve come across. There were so many moments that left me with a grin a mile wide, from pulling a string of victims up into the ceiling to turning a soldier against their former friends. But if you choose to wreak your own brand of horror upon Carrion‘s hapless humans, just be prepared to step away when there’s no-one left to torment.
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A positively perfect example of an indie title doing what it does best – exploring a unique concept and polishing it to a brilliant shine
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Carrion is undoubtedly a unique take on the survival horror genre. There are a couple of misses, but for the most part it works well for those with a few hours to kill.
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Carrion is a satisfying, bloody, intricate experience with fantastic puzzle, level and encounter design. However, it also suffers a notable consistency problem that breaks the sense of destructive momentum that's central to a game like Carrion. While players who come looking for a rip-and-tear experience like DOOM (2016) might be disappointed by the game's puzzle and stealth mechanics, Carrion never sacrifices its reverse horror atmosphere and cartoonish, over-the-top violence and gore, even when it slows down.
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Carrion review for PC, PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch. Carrion lets you control a vile, amorphous blob trapped in a secret underground government facility, as it casually murders everyone responsible for its captivity. You are the unfathomable, indescribable horror that would send the protagonist in a Lovecraft story mad, flinging yourself around its tight corridors by your tentacles, chomping on scientists and soldiers alike, growing in size after feasting on them.
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Carrion turns the horror genre on its head by letting you be the monster this time in a Metroidvania style game, which serves as the perfect type game to pick up and play between many of the other larger scale releases that have released this year.
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Although Carrion is a relatively short game with little replayability, its quirky theme and ravenous flesh monster make for a fun feeding frenzy.
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Carrion is a new indie horror game that gives you control of the monster. Read our review!
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Turning the horror game genre on its head, Carrion is a gory delight for you rip and tear your way through.
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Carrion’s concept of playing the evil, inhuman creature that’s out to eat everyone is definitely interesting and, at times undoubtedly visceral despite its distant 2D perspective, letting you bloody up rooms and leave halves of corpses lying around for later consumption. Its movement enforces the foreign nature of its protagonist but frequent frustrations like repeated difficulty spikes during combat and getting lost in its unremarkable facility do chip away at its awesome parts. Nevertheless, if you can weather some frustration, you’re in for a lot of delicious dismemberment and many horrified screams as you take Carrion’s flesh beast on its...
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Carrion is a delightfully gruesome game that has just as many puzzles as it does action.
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There's also a sameness to the levels, with everything having that dreary, retro sci-fi look to it. It fits the theme of the game, but it does add to the confusing navigation issues and makes backtracking a bit of a bore. Otherwise the retro art style is a definite highlight of Carrion, especially with how the monster is animated. It's also impressive how chaotic things can get on-screen with no slow-down or other issues.
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There just isn’t a reason to play Carrion. There is little narrative, repetitive combat, limited puzzles, and almost zero horror elements. The atmosphere is okay and it reminds me of Alien but that’s about as far as it goes with horror. Just leave this monster stuck in the vent.
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I have been waiting for the release of Carrion ever since I got to play it in Devolver Digital’s E3 2019 trailer park outside of the Convention Center. I was thoroughly impressed with my demo and was joined by Phobia Game Studio’s own Krzysztof Chomicki, where I got to pick his brain. You can always tell when a dev is excited to show and talk about the game because they want to say so much more to the questions, but can only respond with a “you’ll see”. Carrion has been living in m...
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However, frustrations aside, Carrion was still an entertaining playthrough. As one of Devolver’s major releases of the year it doesn’t quite hit the high mark I expected. It doesn’t need to be a breakthrough experience, though. It’s just plain fun, and I could see myself playing through again.
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Carrion is a beautifully orchestrated symphony of blood, guts, and dismembered limbs.
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A mildly frustrating element with the game however is its lack of a map system in place. Each area of the game features a hidden upgrade you can acquire upon returning with the appropriate new ability, such as bombs that will instantly kill you until you acquire the hardened shell upgrade. The issue here however is that the world is almost labyrinthian in nature, as there’s no clear way of telling which path you need to take to get where. In an almost cruel goading measure, the end of the game even features a room with a series of panels...
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When there are soldiers to kill and helpless scientists to terrorize, Carrion absolutely lives up to the promise of its monstrous premise. It’s unrelenting in its pursuit of delivering that pure power fantasy of being an uncontrollable monstrosity making its escape from a locked-down facility, but in that pursuit, it leaves out fundamental tools that would have made exploration less of a slog. Carrion brings the fantasy of being the monster in a horror movie to life, but also makes you wonder how those monsters managed to make their way around without a map.
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