"Expectations are funny things aren’t they? We often build up grand ideas of something we are looking forward to. Sometimes they might be based on our knowledge of who is involved or it might even be pure fantasy. Let’s take Wayward Manor as an example. The combination of the strange and awesome mind of Neil Gaiman and the strange awesome minds of The Odd Gentlemen seemed like a match made in heaven." Says CalmDownTom
Too cute to really be classified as a true horror game, Wayward Manor produces many strange and silly puzzles to leave players scratching their head.
From the review, "What’s worse than the puzzles (and scarier than anything the characters in Wayward Manor might experience) are the game-breaking glitches. Too often the cursor used to interact with the world would become an impotent hourglass icon, incapable of anything but evoking frustration. Objects clipping through one another is a sign that corners may have been cut and when essential puzzle elements become unintentionally unclickable with unfathomable regularity, it becomes hard to forgive them as merely a pratfall of the medium. On the plus side, visual glitches can sometimes be humorous. [Benjamin Maltbie hasn't] any idea what Wayward Manor’s anti-hero might look like, but I can guarantee that he or she can look no more horrific than this one time the otherwise forgettable Madame Budds’s lady bits decided to go rogue.Or are they just wonky by design?"
Jake Richards writes: "This is some Frankenstein's monster gone terribly wrong; gurgling, wide-eyed, pleading for the sweet release of a merciful death. Then your gun jams. Where to begin? It looks bad. Like Psychonauts: not only in style - which is good - but in the year it was released: 2006 - which is bad. ... I can't recommend this despite my love of all things Neil [Gaiman]. Got ten, 15 bucks burning a hole in your pocket? Buy one of his books."
