Remothered: Tormented Fathers

Remothered: Tormented Fathers is a 2018 survival horror video game developed by Italian studio Stormind Games and published by Darril Arts for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Microsoft Windows,[1] both developed and set in Italy. It is created, written and directed by the Italian videogame artist and director Chris Darril[2] and is considered a spiritual successor to the Japanese survival horror series Clock Tower.[3] On March 22, 2019, Darril Arts announced that, thanks to a collaboration with Japanese publisher Dico, Remothered: Tormented Fathers was released on Nintendo Switch in 2019.[4][5] On April 11, during the IVGA (Italian Video Game Awards) in Rome, on stage rewarded for "Best Italian Game", Chris Darril and Modus Games' CEO Christina Seelye announced a sequel to Remothered titled Remothered: Broken Porcelain, in collaboration with Maximum Games that will be released sometime in 2020 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Microsoft Windows and Nintendo Switch.[6]

Remothered: Tormented Fathers
Developer(s)Stormind Games
Publisher(s)Darril Arts
Director(s)Chris Darril
Designer(s)Chris Darril
Writer(s)Chris Darril
Composer(s)Nobuko Toda
Luca Balboni
EngineUnreal Engine 
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
ReleaseMicrosoft Windows
  • WW: 30 January 2018
PlayStation 4, Xbox One
  • WW: 25 July 2018
Nintendo Switch
  • WW: September 6, 2019
Genre(s)Adventure, survival horror
Mode(s)Single-player

Plot

An old woman named Madame Svenska meets a young man named Mr. Manni, who she begins recounting an old story to him so that it will not be forgotten.

In the 1970s, Rosemary Reed heads to the mansion of Dr. Richard Felton to discuss how to treat the mysterious and incurable illness he suffers from. During the interview, it is revealed that Felton's adopted daughter, Celeste, ran away from home and his now deceased former business partner, Adrian Elias Wyman, is the prime suspect for her disappearance. However, it is quickly revealed that Reed only used the medical interview as a pretext to find out the truth behind Celeste's disappearance. Angered, Felton orders Reed to leave the mansion.

Later that night, Reed sneaks back into the mansion to find Felton's wife, Arianna, who might have the answers she seeks. However, upon reaching Arianna's bedroom, Reed only finds a decomposed corpse. Alarmed at the discovery, Reed begins scouring the mansion for more clues while a psychotic Felton stalks the halls. Eventually, Reed finds out from a recorded hypnosis session and from Felton himself that Celeste had actually returned home after her disappearance. However, Felton in his madness came to believe Celeste was a different girl named Jennifer and murdered her. A masked red nun then appears in the mansion, chasing both Reed and Felton. Reed heads up into the attic, where's she's attacked by a young woman before falling unconscious.

As Reed regains consciousness, the woman apologizes for attacking her and tells her about a hidden room Felton sealed away. Reed finds and opens the sealed room, discovering that it is Celeste's bedroom. A tape recorder reveals that after Celeste returned home, she was imprisoned inside the mansion with Arianna and subjected to forced hypnosis sessions which began to gradually destroy her memories. Celeste then decided to escape. Reed follows Celeste's escape path but falls into the sewers beneath the mansion. Upon returning to the mansion, Reed discovers Felton's birth certificate, listing his name as Jennifer. Reed realizes that Felton was born as a girl but raised as a boy and given testosterone treatments by her father. This created the split Richard and Jennifer personas, and the young woman Reed encountered was Felton in her Jennifer persona.

Reed then encounters Felton's nurse, Gloria, and warns her about Felton's madness. Gloria is shocked that Felton murdered Arianna, and confirms all of the revelations of Celeste and Felton's past. However, Gloria drugs Reed, revealing herself as the red nun. Reed attempts to escape but is captured by Felton. When Reed wakes up, Gloria reveals that she had been experimenting on Felton and manipulated her into murdering Arianna, but Celeste was able to escape. Gloria then orders Felton to kill Reed in a murder-suicide. Reed is able to escape and kill Felton by setting her on fire. Reed then heads to the attic to find an escape route, and tricks Gloria into falling out of a window.

Reed approaches the mortally wounded Gloria, who reveals that she, Felton, and her fellow nuns were subjected to inhumane experiments by Wyman to perfect Phenoxyl, an anti-psychotropic drug that was eventually banned for its severe side effects. Gloria then recognizes Reed as one of her fellow nuns, who set fire to the entire project to put a stop to the experiments. Reed confirms it but says her memories of that period are still missing. Gloria apologizes to and forgives Reed, telling her to keep searching for Celeste before passing away. Reed returns to Celeste's room and finds a clue pointing her towards the Flemmington Girls' Institute.

Back in the present, Madame Svenska tells Mr. Manni that Reed continued her search for Celeste.

Reception
Reception
Aggregate scores
AggregatorScore
GameRankingsPC: 79/100[7]
PS4: 78/100[8]
XONE: 80/100[9]
MetacriticPC: 77/100[10]
PS4: 75/100[11]
XONE: 73/100[12]

The game received positive reviews according to the review aggregation websites GameRankings and Metacritic.[8][10] It was praised for its atmosphere, gameplay and storytelling.[13][14]

On July 22, 2018, three days prior to Remothered: Tormented Fathers' console release, Keiichiro Toyama, creator of the Silent Hill series and Forbidden Siren, expressed his admiration for Remothered and hoped to collaborate with Chris Darril.[15][16][17]

Awards
YearAwardCategoryResultRef
2019 NAVGTR Awards Best Writing in a Drama Nominated [18]
2018 Global Music Awards Best Video Game Music Won [19]
Best Composer/ Composition Won
2018 Eurogamer Best Indie Game Won [20]
Best Italian Game Won
2018 IVGA (Italian Video Game Awards) Best Italian Debut Game Nominated [21]
Best Italian Game Won
2018 The Games Machine Best Horror Game Won [22]
Best Italian Game Won
2019 Oniros Film Awards Best Animation Won [23]
Best Song Nominated
October 2018 Oniros Film Awards Best Animation Won [24]
Best Director Nominated
Best Voice Over Nominated
Best Video Game Trailer Won
Best Song Won
Best Poster Won
2018 Rely On Horror Game of the Year Won [25][26]
Community's Game of the Year Won
2018 SH Downloads Horror Game of the Year Won [27]
  • Listed among GameSpot's "scariest games of all time"[28]
  • #6 Best Indie Game of 2017 on Indie DB by Mod DB for the Early Access version[29]
  • Metacritic's #93 Best PC Game of 2018 [30]

Trivia
  • The game's title "Remothered" is a deliberate puzzle. It could mean something like "mothered again" or "born again" but it is instead a combination of the words REM (rapid eye movement), moth, mother, other and red, all of which refer to the game's story and symbolism.[31]
  • The first time we meet the main antagonist of the game, the Red Nun, she introduces herself with the line "you want to kill me?", an homage to Dario Argento's Suspiria, in which the protagonist played by Jessica Harper has to fight against Helena MarKos, the dance academy matriarch who says the same identical sentence with a similar inflection.
  • The first version of Remothered was a one-man-only-project developed on Enterbrain's Rpg Maker Xp, with 2d and oil paintings aesthetics and similarities to Clock Tower (1995 video game). The project was cancelled in 2012 by Chris Darril himself with the objective of making a stronger version with new 3d engine.[33][34][35]
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References
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  4. "Switch players, get ready to enter Felton's mansion!". remothered.com. 22 March 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  5. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers 日本語版、Nintendo Switchで配信決定！". DICO Games. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  6. "Remothered sequel Going Porcelain announced for PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC". Gematsu. Retrieved April 12, 2019.
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  10. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers for PC Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved January 30, 2018.
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  12. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers for Xbox One Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved July 25, 2018.
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  14. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers - recensione". Eurogamer Italia. February 5, 2018. Retrieved December 26, 2018.
  15. 外山圭一郎 (22 July 2018). "Chris-san, I fell in love with the upcoming survival horror game Remothered and its story. It would be wonderful if we could do something together someway. @chrisdarrilpic.twitter.com/1HSTemIPhQ". twitter.com. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  16. "Guess who spoke about Remothered: Tormented Fathers". remothered.com. 24 July 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  17. Zibbo, Matteo (24 July 2018). "Keiichiro Toyama vorrebbe collaborare con i creatori di Remothered: Tormented Fathers". eurogamer.it. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  18. "Nominee List for 2018". National Academy of Video Game Trade Reviewers. February 11, 2019. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  19. "Global Music Awards - Music Competition". www.globalmusicawards.com.
  20. "Eurogamer Awards 2018 feature - Remothered: Tormented Fathers". Eurogamer.
  21. "IVGA - Italian Video Game Awards". www.remothered.com.
  22. "TGM Awards 2018: l'elenco di tutti i vincitori". 22 December 2018.
  23. https://onirosfilmawards.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2019/07/ONIROS_ANNUAL_2019b.pdf
  24. https://onirosfilmawards.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2018/11/ONIROS_OCTOBER_2018.pdf
  25. "Rely On Horror's 2018 Game Of The Year Is ... Remothered: Tormented Fathers - Rely on Horror". www.relyonhorror.com. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  26. "Rely on Horror's 2018 Community Game of the Year is ... Remothered: Tormented Fathers - Rely on Horror". www.relyonhorror.com. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  27. Orsetti, Florencia. "Lunatika´s Choice: Remothered — Mejor juego de horror de 2018". shdownloads.com.ar. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  28. "Scariest Games Of All Time - Remothered: Tormented Fathers". Gamespot.
  29. "Players Choice Indie of the Year 2017 feature - Remothered: Tormented Fathers". Indie DB.
  30. "Remothered: Tormented Fathers". Metacritic. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  31. http://www.remothered.com/remothered-meaning-name/
  32. http://www.upsidedownmagazine.it/remothered-tormented-fathers-tutte-le-citazioni-cinematografiche-e-videoluche/
  33. https://youtube.com/NK3Skg8x52U
  34. https://gamebase.com.br/game/45404/remothered-tormented-fathers/
  35. https://lostmediawiki.com/Remothered_(cancelled_remake_of_horror_game_%22Clock_Tower%22;_2007-2012)
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