Then the game throws you into a tedious puzzle revolving around searching for minuscule checkers pieces in reused environments from previous chapters while little of note actually happens. Ending Fatigue: The game seems ready to come to an end after the artist nearly drowns in the bathtub where his wife implicitly killed herself and the final component for the painting is retrieved - you even return to the art room.
Disappointing Last Level: While the first four chapters are generally praised and considered the game's highlights, the reliance on opaque and occasionally buggy puzzles and overexposure of the game's single enemy keeps the last two chapters from reaching the same bar. Compare and contrast with the reception from fans and Let's Players, who have hailed it as one of the best horror games in recent memory and tend to draw comparisons to P.T. Critical Dissonance: Many major outlets thrashed the game upon its full release, labeling it a predictable mess of bland jump scares and wasted potential even as more positive reviews started rolling in, it still proved polarizing. Awesome Music: The main theme of the game is hauntingly beautiful. Is he a genuinely good man who was completely crushed by his wife's injuries and driven to obsessive insanity by her suicide? Is he a complete and utter monster, filled with selfish, petty, and disgusting thoughts that drove him to abuse and eventually murder his wife for no longer being beautiful? Or was he just a normal guy who did a horrible thing and became a Tragic Villain? Even This Very Wiki can't decide if the Artist's decision to draw himself in one of the endings was a positive symbol of him accepting and moving on from the loss of his wife and daughter, or another instance of him selfishly putting himself above his family. The game offers evidence for many interpretations of his character. Alternative Character Interpretation: The Artist in a nut shell. Game Informer gave the game a scathing review, rating it at a 5. 
IGN gave one of the most harshly critical reviews, scoring it at 5.8 and only listing one real compliment toward any of its mechanics.
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