Scholar’s Mate Analysis – Use Your Intelligence to Get Out of It

A very overwhelming escape room with a deadly pursuer

Companion of the scholar This is one of those titles that surprises you, challenges you and tests, in addition to your ingenuity, your ability to think under pressure. Edited and developed by the friends of Jandusoftwe dive into a horror escape room with Vietnam memories And Mr. X.

Scholar’s Mate places us in a kind of sanatorium, a sinister abandoned psychiatric hospital, without knowing how we got there. We are told the story of Juditha young woman who, after an accident, has terrible visions of a scary man who looks like a serial killer.

What to Expect from Scholar’s Mate

First-person horror fans have a rather interesting proposition here, because with an atmosphere that is at least disturbing, we will find ourselves in an abandoned hospital with the urgent need to escape. In addition, a menacing pursuer will chase us with a kitchen axe.

Elements such as the flashlight, walking on tiptoes, and taking advantage of dark corners to hide will be essential to surviving this nightmare. Scholar’s Mate is a pure escape room, but it adds the pressure of having your own “Mr. X” roaming the facility with the sole mission of killing us.

The investigation is essential, because clues will be revealed to us both about how to escape and what happened in this horrible place, full of terrifying breathtaking scenes. And it will not be easy, because with the tension of listening to the intimidating footsteps of Eddieour particular psychopath, it is difficult to think clearly.

Riddles that will make us rack our brains

Like any good first-person horror and escape room game, Scholar’s Mate will test our intelligence, but also that of “to get old“Custom of write down the clues in a notebook. And besides, we will need more than paper and pen, because the difficulty of the puzzles is quite demanding.

Placing the books in a certain order, getting a key using various elements of the environment as clues or collecting objects to place them in the right place will be essential. It is not an excessively large map, since it only has two floors and a few additional rooms, but with Eddie nearby, it will not be enough to find a place to hide.

I had to think a lot about the photos, dates, and numbers that you find to get a simple password for a padlock. There are also keys hidden everywhere, which we will need to unlock rooms with key items. Finally, the best puzzle is how the game activates and unlocks areas through ingenuity and essential objects.

A bit rough gameplay for a terrifying threat

There mobility The character’s movement is one of the points I liked the least, because whether running, walking or even crouching, Judith moves more slowly”“than a parade of snails.” It is imperative not to make any noise so that Eddie, the villain of the film, does not find us, and the slowness of the protagonist is exasperating.

You can escape the relentless pursuer by running, hiding well and making him go somewhere else, which adds extra difficulty to the research to escape. Sometimes the sound of footsteps can make us place our Nemesisbut in others it can confuse our senses and make us think it is a little further away than it actually is.

For the rest, with the flash light We can see things that are hidden in the dark (it is not mandatory to use it), but it is dangerous because Eddie can see it. Scanning objects by turning them will give us clues, but do not expect anything simple. Other mechanisms will be typical, like closing the doors so that they do not see us, but Eddie can open them (there are no 100% safe parts except for a few).

How to take the Scholar’s Mate Challenge

Jandusoft has introduced 3 levels of difficulty in the game, but they all involve complications due to the design of the title. In story mode, Eddie will have a shorter field of vision and will hear our footsteps a little less. In general, these characteristics will be considerably expanded. However, at the highest level, key elements will not be indicated to us.

There replayability Scholar’s Mate lies, in my opinion, first in completing all the achievements, because there are some that I have not completed. There are hidden collectibles (very well hidden) and information to reveal. The ins and outs of the true story create the need to know more and start a new game.

However, it is a fast gamea little bit actually, although that’s sometimes appreciated in an industry full of overly long titles. The ending, which you’ll be able to glimpse as you progress, will make you think about everything related to mental illness and its mysterious causes.

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Conclusions

Scholar’s Mate is designed to make you nervous, rack your brain and bring out the investigator in you, all while fearing a run-in with the psychopathic killer. It takes classic horror elements with a very successful stifling setting and surprising graphic details.

Another game you can beat between 1 and 2 hoursit’s quite satisfying, straightforward. We appreciate not finding any filler, since all the information reveals either clues or the context of the characters and former patients, doctors and staff of such a gloomy place.

On the other hand, I noticed that some sounds don’t fit very well, the movement of the tanks is quite exasperating and the animations of our dead are always the same (something that could be worked on for the next title, which I’m looking forward to)

Scholar’s Mate is launched on July 4th on Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Playstation 4, Playstation 5 and PC via Steam. It costs around $9.99 in the xbox store and it’s really worth it, thanks a lot to Jandusoft (Spanish developer) for the code and the opportunity