Set in Italy, the game is fully voiced in Italian. These censored scenes are integral to the narrative, so play this on another platform than PlayStation if you can.

Regardless of the reasons, though, I don’t think the developer should have been forced to censor its game because it’s not the complete experience, and this is my belief after playing Martha is Dead.

There’s still lots of blood, though, regardless of which version you play, so without spoiling those exact scenes I can tell you that the issues were around why there was blood more than its presence in itself.

The PlayStation version skips the interactive elements of a certain scene that drew heavy criticism prior to the game’s release (trust me when I say the scene is integral to the narrative and I wouldn’t have it any other way) as well as some other scenes involving blood and suicide. I originally wanted to play on PlayStation 4, but chose Xbox One as the platform so that I wouldn’t risk missing anything. Most of this article will read like a review, and first I’ll discuss the game itself as though it is a review, but then I’ll delve into the reason why I actually can’t give it a proper score.īefore I get too far into this, I’d like to briefly touch upon the controversy that occurred just prior to the game’s launch, when the publisher announced that certain parts would be censored on PlayStation. But I can’t review the game at this stage for a single, critical reason. The game shows true heart and true promise, but unfortunately doesn’t go much past that at this point. Set in Italy during World War II, the game follows a young woman in the days following her sister’s sudden and shocking death. So when Martha is Dead was announced, and said to be a psychological horror game set in a time of war, I firmly believed The LKA team could do these issues justice. LKA is, to me, best known for approaching some very sensitive topics in The Town of Light. I don’t believe topics should be ignored in games, but I do believe that certain issues need to be handled delicately things like mental illness, sexual assault, and war are not topics to be taken lightly.

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