Given the time of year, it’s no surprise to see a new wave of titles that are intended to take you to the spooky side popping up in the eShop. In the case of The Bridge Curse 2, you’ll be sucked into a first-person experience dealing with some pretty horrific creatures inspired by Chinese folklore. After a bit of a slow start, mostly dealing with some stealth action that’s on the dull side, things do at least pick up as you’ll ultimately experience each chapter through the eyes of different characters.

In terms of the positive, the easiest place to start is with the design of some of the game’s monsters, with the Ballerina being a particular stand-out. There are also some sequences and puzzles involving what you’ll need to do to survive that work better than others, and that’s somewhat to be expected. Not everything will always work equally well. The thing is, with inconsistencies in the overall quality of the story, your necessary actions, and how well the game plays overall between chapters, the game can feel like it’s a bit all over the place when it comes to quality.

Where the game struggles and bottoms out quite a bit is primarily tied to pacing and unevenness. You’ll have moments of delicious tension, and times when everything comes together to deliver, but there’s an issue with what feels like too much filler in between. This obviously isn’t an issue isolated to this game, but it feels like they should have either thrown in more chills somehow or just cut down on elements that aren’t terribly interesting and fail to do much to advance the overall story. There’s some good content here to be discovered, but on the whole the juice just doesn’t feel worth the squeeze.