This then gave me an entirely different story. So, eager to know more I booted up the game again and took a different route in the mindset of following the acceptance path. I hadn’t even met a Jack throughout my playthrough. I then looked at the relationship meter for Kristina’s friend Charlotte and noticed a character called Jack with 50% next to him. On the statistics menu, it showed that I had taken a mixed path between acceptance, guilt, and denial and that the ending I had unlocked was an unfinished ending. It was an intriguing premise, to say the least, yet once I had finished my first playthrough and watched the ending I was left feeling confused. The choices I made in my first playthrough made the narrative about a ghost of an old maid haunting young girls and driving them mad and ultimately committing suicide. When I said that the game is a thriller disguised as a horror, I meant it. Depending on what choices you make ultimately affect the narrative and what ending you get out of the 4 possible endings. Now the game is built on choices that create different paths (or scenes) for you to play out. You begin to read and this is where the story truly begins. You pull the book out to find that it’s Emily’s diary. You look down underneath the base to see no one there apart from a book. Once at the apartment things then take a turn when a spooky arm grabs at your foot from underneath a wardrobe.
The story kicks off once Emily’s grieving mother asks you to go and retrieve a family necklace from Emily’s apartment. You start off at a funeral for your friend Emily who had tragically taken her life due to depression (or so it may seem).
However, ‘ I Saw Black Clouds’ may seem like a ghost story, to begin with, but peel back it’s layers and you discover that the game is in fact a psychological thriller cleverly disguised as a supernatural horror. Where those titles dealt with themes such as Heist Action, Virus Drama, and Lockdown Romance, ‘I Saw Black Clouds’ delves into Supernatural Horror, Similar to the previous title ‘The Bunker’. Their roster in the past includes the brilliant titles such as ‘Late Shift’, ‘The Complex’ and ‘Five Dates’. I saw Black Clouds is the latest FMV game from developer Wales Interactive.