Remothered: Tormented Fathers

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.

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]

• 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]

• 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, Red Nun, she introduces herself with the line "you want to kill me?", a clear homage to the Dario Argento's 70s' masterpiece Suspiria once the protagonist played by Jessica Harper has to fight against Helena MarKos, the dance academy matriarch that will say the same identical sentence with the same creepy voice.

• In accordance with a YouTube channel and italian website Upside Down Magazine, the game is a full homage to many famous films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, The Birds, Stanley Kubrik's The Shining, David Lynch's Mulholland Dr., Dario Argento's Deep Red, Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs and Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby but also to other media, from tv-series to videogames, with Twin Peaks and then The Evil Within, Rule of Rose, Clock Tower (series) and Silent Hill.[32]

• First Remothered version was a one-only-man-project developed on Enterbrain's Rpg Maker Xp, with 2d and oil paintings aesthetics and heavy resemblances of the Clock Tower (1995 video game). The project went cancelled in 2012 by Chris Darril himself with the objective of making a stronger version with new 3d engine.[33][34][35]

• At its release Remothered: Tormented Fathers has generated few controversies based on of the gender reveal of one of the main characters of the game. Members of the LGBT communities via Reddit [36] and on the italian website Gay.it have accused the game of being transphobic and of "perpetuating horror's harmful anti-trans stereotypes" [37].

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