Horror Tales The Beggar: Let’s start off with showing y’all the trailers shall we?

So to start off Let me get this out of the way, Horror Tales The Beggar is a direct sequel to that game I reviewed 2 years ago called Horror Tales The Wine….a sequel that takes place 200 years after the events of the Wine to be precise.

Also just like the first game this game is also made by one developer Carlos Coronado…

Horror Tales The Beggar is available only on Xbox Series X/S, Steam, and PS5. So unfortunately less systems then Horror Tales The Wine was avaliable on….but still go check out this game for yourselves.

So now let’s get the rating out of the way so we can get into spoilers…so the rating, well firstly this came out of the blue. I wasn’t expecting this game to release this soon, especially since last I asked 2 years ago the developer said he was taking a break from making this game and helping a friend make another horror game…
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But glad this long-awaited sequel has been released, but i do have some issues. The game feels kinda a bit of a downgrade all while feeling like an upgrade, I’ll explain in spoilers…but the main issue I wasn’t once scared in this game.

So overall I’ll give this game a solid 7.9/10. Warning ⚠️ spoilers ahead y’all been warned.

So in this game, u play as this mysterious guy called the beggar, and u get discovered by this talking floating robot who cusses a lot….right off the bat this game is different from Horror Tales The Wine because there is no voice dialog in that game, but here’s there’s voice dialog.

So u wake up in this post-apocalyptic world, 200 years after the Wine incident….in this game u will make ur way through a post-apocalyptic town which been destroyed by a nuke I think, all while u will be picking up notes which tell u what’s been happening….u will relearn abilities from the notes that the robot left for u…via these circular disks he left around the maps…

The first note u pick up says and I quote, in a few hours a humanoid entity named Morvin. Wow, what a dumb name for a horror creature….and that ur character’s exposure to the Banydebosc Wine has made u immune temporarily so u can survive him I guess?

Oh also the creature is a figment of your imagination…doesn’t explain why my figment can kill me, attack me, and send dogs on me…must be hallucinating…..

Ur abilities consist of creating a light source from ur hand, throwing objects by levitating up objects, levitating objects towards yourself, and swimming and then running…..

Almost forgot u can change the time of day in this game, that’s an ability u learn later when u make ur way out into the heat and u find out that if u stand out too long in the sun u burn….

BTW this ability comes in handy for solving puzzles later, for instance, there are parts of the game where u have to make your way across to a building but need a platform to jump on…u can change the time of day, depending on which time of day via be night, day or sunrise a platform will fly towards u…

U can also charge ur ability up to toss an object back towards the enemy to injure it…..so this game gives u a way to fight back, good finally..

Also, this game finally fixed the running stamina, where in the first game ur character had the stamina of a guy who smoked 12 times a day…here ur stamina bar is endless…u can run and run without getting tired….thanks the lord..

Also, u learn later the ability to make it rain which will fill up bodies of water to help u get across a big room to get across….or if u turn off the rain the water will decrease which sometimes needs to happen to proceed, see what I mean by this game is very experimental?

Yeah, that’s all ur abilities, like I said this game is very experimental compared to the first game, oh on top of all that ur gonna be chased by a glowing green skeletal fleshy figure who can teleport to u, through objects via levitating them…

Throw u, uh flying, and lastly spawn in evil wolves….yes this game has wolves, 1 of which u can pet…the one u can pet is a friendly wolf u find later, how adorable….unfortunately u have to kill the bad wolves and I hate those moments in this game, I hate how in games and films the dogs always get killed off…when that happens I get sad, especially having to kill the dog ourselves I hate.

Also if u pick up a note u will finally learn what caused the Devil’s Fever in the first game….here’s what the note says…

“Nobel Prize awarded to scientists who discovered the origin of the toxic Banydebosc wine.

Ever since Xavier Roig (descendant of the heroic Albert Roig during the wine pandemic of two centuries ago) and his team discovered a few months ago that the toxicity of wine came from a unique type of metallic moss, the scientific community took it for granted that they would win the Nobel Prize, and to no one’s surprise they did.

The team discovered that this moss (harmless in natural amounts) grows under the earth’s surface and the terrible vintage of the toxic wine managed to get close to the roots of the banydebosc vineyards. It was then that the roots absorbed the properties of the moss. Then, in the cellar, it matured and expanded microscopically inside the wine, thus enhancing its properties until the first bottles were opened decades later.

Roig dedicated the award to his great-great-grandfather and assured him that in a few weeks, the first preliminary results of the metal moss study would be released to the world. Roig assures that the results will revolutionize the field of neurology and Al training.”

Albert Roig was that fedora mask-wielding shotgun psycho from The Wine…..also glad to know that the Devil’s Fever wasn’t anyone’s fault in the first game, due to a fungus that was on an old wine bottle…..though how did no one in that town not notice the fungus on the wine bottle is beyond me. But I do like this game is expanding that world that The Wine  set up….

Now let’s talk about the scares in this game…oh boy I have tons of thoughts on the scares, sorry in advance if this part comes off a bit messy but I’ll try to keep it organized….

Ok so remember how I mentioned in my review of The Wine how I mentioned that the way the horror monster was handled was kinda of poorly because he spawns in too much, plus u have to solve a door puzzle while pulling down on a slow lever all while avoiding him. Well, I think Carlos Coronado kinda pulled back a bit too much here in this game because this game villain feels worse…

Not that he’s hard, no he’s too easy….let me explain, so for 96% of this game all u will be doing is solving platform puzzles to get across and continue forward…while 4 times in this game, the green glowing eyed flesh skeleton spawns in starts walking slow all while u have infinite stamina bar…..which means u can turn around and keep running with any tension…

Heck, u will realize very quickly that 2 out of the 4 appearances he makes feel very scripted, he spawns in front of u…u run the opposite way u turn around he vanishes, and the scenery changes back to normal u keep progressing forward…again feels scripted..

On top of all that I still don’t know how I feel about this game intruding on a character with mystical abilities or a villain that has mystical abilities…I liked that the first game felt grounded in reality, there weren’t any supernatural elements to the game just a deranged rifleman hunting ur character down while ur character is hallucinating

a headless man

Floating objects

Scenery changing

Makes sense because the Devil’s Fever caused hallucinations and ur character is infected with the disease…here in this game idk what is happening…why does our main character have powers? Why does he seem to not be judging things that are going on? Why did he wake up in a post-apocalyptic town? What happened to this town? And the world? Why’s there a supernatural glowing green skeletal fleshy figure chasing u with mystical powers? What is our main character’s objective? What is a Beggar?

Why’s our main character labeled as the Beggar? Why are islands and buildings floating in the air? Why do I have so many questions? Oh wait it is answered about the skeleton figure named Morvin…but besides that

See I’m left with more unanswered questions than answered…also I still don’t know how I feel about the villain, I never found him to be scary or memorable….where I’ll always remember that Headless Dickman from the first game…his design seemed cool ans scary….here the villain’s design is just a naked man with a skeletal face with glowing green eyes….he looks like he got infected by radioactive poisoning or something like that….

Now let’s talk about his final encounter which is a boss fight, yes this game has a boss fight… and I’ll also talk about how I feel about that….so when the boss fight starts your near the edge of a cliff and trying to get across at night or day, just then Morvin teleports in front of u…lifts u up, drags u across to another floating island….

BTW this brings up so many questions, so if Morvin is a figment of our imagination then how are we able to fly across? We never learn in this game how to fly….can the Beggar fly? If so why? Again I’m left more confused..

Anyways so while he’s flying around shooting powers at u, u have to grab objects that are around and toss them at him….but don’t worry he can completely dodge ur attack, also u have to build up the tossing ability….while u do that he can fly away, or hit u with a spell which causes u to have to restart the buildup again…..so u can miss ur opportunity multiple times…

Also, he spawns in wolves to attack u, oh gee wiz how fair is this? So on top of having to attack this flying bimbo who can dodge my attacks, I also have to get rid of the 2 dogs attacking me as well. Sigh….

Anyways so after u defeat the guy, he falls onto the floor and dies…well that’s anticlimactic,

Anyways so in the final part of the game u follow thr flying Droid across platforms, until u fall through a floor into a room..where the robot says what? U thought I was gonna save u? No I’m gonna disect u, create a better version of u then start over…

Ahhhhhh that’s F***ked up, so the game ends with thr robot flying to u…the screen turns black and now the end, idk what the he’ll just happened. But I enjoyed it, anyways hope y’all enjoyed this review….if yall couldn’t tell, I preferred The Wine slightly more then this..

Also here’s a teaser for the next review I’m working on