Posted on: March 6, 2018
MotherKojiro
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Overrated, but Worth Experiencing
Everywhere, I hear that this is Frictional Games's magnum opus; one of the greatest Horror games every made. I didn't go into this with that level of expectation, but honestly, I liked SOMA, and even Penumbra a lot better. The game has an extremely slow build, which is fine, but it starts out very poorly. You have a sanity meter, which decreases when you see something scary. It's a great idea! What kills this right off the bat is WHAT scares your protagonist. He's scared because he saw a door blow open; he's scared because he saw some papers blowing around; HE'S SCARED OF THE DARK. I think being scared of the dark makes him one of the worst protagonists in the history of Horror. A big part of the problem with this is that it immediately killed my immersion. I wasn't being scared; I was being TOLD to be scared, usually by things that aren't all that scary. The monsters can be scary, but you're supposed to avoid them. Now, a smart strategy would be to watch them and see where they're going, and then avoid them, but the game actively tells you that doing so will scare yourself more (makes sense) and make them find you more easily (the design working against itself). I felt less like I was immersed in this world as a terrified protagonist, and more like an irritated mother, dragging a scared child back into his bedroom to show him that there are not monsters in his closet. The game does have some spots that got under my skin and into my head - it really does - but they happen so late in the game that it wasn't quite enough to save it for me. The Choir was incredible - unlike anything else I've ever experienced - and the Nave followed me around for days, but I found the horror elements to be a bit weak overall in this one, and the irritating mechanics really broke my immersion. For what it's worth, the end of the game is fantastic, and the story was very interesting, and I would recommend this to Horror fans; I just didn't see what all the fuss was about.
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