Remothered: Broken Porcelain
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Remothered: Broken Porcelain is a 2020 survival horror video game developed by Stormind Games and published by Modus Games. It was released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and Microsoft Windows.[1]
It is a follow-up to 2018's Remothered: Tormented Fathers, serving as both a prequel and a sequel. Its story follows Jennifer, a rebellious orphan, who works at the Ashmann Inn whose staff has gone mad with a murderous rage. In parallel, Rosemary Reed is still investigating the disappearance of Celeste Felton.
Created, written and directed by Chris Darril, the game was announced on 11 April 2019 on the stage of the Italian Video Game Awards in Rome by Darril, who received the award for Best Italian Game for Tormented Fathers.[2][3]
Plot
Set in the year 1973, after her
Jennifer later wakes up, with the staff claiming that she had imagined everything and that Wyman has long been dead as he committed suicide by hanging two years prior. However, Linn later approaches her, revealing that Wyman's suicide was staged and warns her that she must escape, as the staff are sure that Jennifer is Celeste Felton. Linn further explains that since Jennifer's biological mother had taken Phenoxyl while she was pregnant, Jennifer was born with a unique immunity to the harmful side effects, which is what makes her so valuable. However, Jennifer is separated from Linn and captured by the now-insane Stefano and Andrea. Stefano reveals that Jennifer was not adopted by Richard Felton, but is in fact Felton's biological daughter (as Felton is actually a woman but was forced to live as a man by his father since he was 10 years old), with Stefano himself being Jennifer's illegitimate biological father as the result of raping Felton in revenge for marrying Arianna, whom he loved before Jennifer was born. She is able to escape, but is pursued by the now insane staff. She runs into another maid, Elisa, who explains that the entire staff are being brainwashed through the inn's loudspeaker system. She directs Jennifer to head to the basement to shut down the loudspeakers, since she is the only one immune to their effects.
Jennifer proceeds into the basement of the inn, where she finds a secret Phenoxyl laboratory. There, she learns that there's an individual called a "Mother Acherontia" with the unique gift of being able to control those infected with Phenoxyl through telepathic and hypnotic means, creating a collective consciousness among the hypnotized infected. However, there is a risk that the control may backfire and the leader's own mind is absorbed into the collective consciousness through a process called a "fracture/porcelain phase", causing it to go out of control and having all of the infected fall into an endless hypnotic loop of repetition. She also learns Stefano and Wyman were responsible for directing Linn to burn down the Cristo Morente convent, fearing that Gloria Ashmann, Stefano's younger sister, would seize control of the infected away from them. However, Gloria was able to escape and Wyman was made the scapegoat of the Phenoxyl experiments, forcing him to fake his own death and hide in the Ashmann Inn. Elisa is revealed to be Gloria, who survived the fire at the convent two years prior and worked at the hotel under an alias.
Both Jennifer and Linn then escape the inn by stealing a car, though Linn reveals that Gloria tricked her into destroying Wyman's broadcast, allowing her to take full control of the collective consciousness. They are recaptured by Gloria and sent back to the inn. However, Jennifer begins regaining her memories thanks to the help of Wyman's disembodied mind, which has become separated from his body that now serves as Gloria (as Mother Acherontia)'s mindless puppet Porcelain. Jennifer remembers a song that she and Linn composed together, which is actually the trigger known as a "push" to undo the
19 years later, shortly after the deaths of Felton and Gloria, Rosemary Reed arrives at the Ashmann Inn to find Celeste with a dossier of the latter (who was under the name "Jennifer" after her disappearance in 1971) she collected from the Flemmington Girls' Institute. Stefano, now with his face heavily disfigured by a swarm of Acherontia moths summoned by Gloria, and his left arm maimed from Porcelain's attack in 1973, recognizes Reed as Linn (due to her stuttering). After sedating him with a dose of Phenoxyl and using the hallucination of Porcelain under her command, Linn kidnaps Stefano and coerces him into admitting that he had been tracking Jennifer's movements, especially after escaping from the Felton Villa, as Gloria followed her there. She now lives in Sweden as a writer under a pen name. He also further admits that he had brought in 14 other girls who were suspected to be Celeste/Jennifer, only to have them murdered by Porcelain when they were not. Linn then has the option of killing or sparing Stefano. As Linn laments, she removes her blond wig that she wore in the events of the first game and in the present day.
In the present, Madame Svenska reveals that she is in fact Celeste "Jennifer", and she had been telling the story to Giulio Manni in order to give him closure on the fate of his older sister, Rachele, who was one of the girls abducted by Stefano and murdered by Porcelain. Meanwhile Linn, after one last meeting with her beloved Jennifer, has died from Alzheimer's disease, which she inherited from Wyman. Jennifer takes it upon herself to carry the memories Linn spent so many years preserving in her stead.
Reception
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Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | (PC) 39/100[4] (PS4) 44/100[5] (XONE) 49/100[6] |
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GameRevolution | [7] |
IGN | 4/10[8] |
Jeuxvideo.com | 8/20[9] |
Shacknews | [10] |
Remothered: Broken Porcelain received "generally unfavorable" reviews upon release, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[4][5][6]
References
- ^ "Remothered: Broken Porcelain release date moved up to October 13". Gematsu. 22 September 2020. Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- ^ "Sequel to Horror Game "Remothered" Announced Along With New Publisher Partnership". CGMagazine. 12 April 2019. Archived from the original on 16 April 2019. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ Bolt, Neil (12 April 2019). "Italian Horror Game 'Remothered' Returning With a Sequel Next Year". Archived from the original on 30 September 2020. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ a b "Metacritic Review PC". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Metacritic Review PS4". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 11 November 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ a b "Metacritic Review XBOX". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Faulker, Jason (16 October 2020). "GameRevolution Review". GameRevolution. Archived from the original on 26 October 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Ogilvie, Tristan (16 October 2020). "IGN Review". IGN. Archived from the original on 3 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ "Jeuxvideo Review". Jeuxvideo.com (in French). 29 November 2020. Archived from the original on 30 November 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.
- ^ Chandler, Sam (20 October 2020). "ShackNews Review". Shacknews. Archived from the original on 2 December 2020. Retrieved 18 December 2020.