Posted on: February 21, 2018
MotherKojiro
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Well Worth the Head Trip
This is a pretty solid Horror title. It starts off a bit slowly in a very normal house, but the atmosphere is beautiful; I explored every little corner just because I wanted to. Once the game starts in earnest, things get intense in a big hurry. I'm not one to startle easily, but for the first half of the game, I was jumping fairly consistently. In the second half, I stopped jumping, just because the scares are so consistent that I became acclimated to them. There is certainly a psychological element to the horror as the story gradually unfolds, but it does give away what's going on fairly early and easily. This also exposes some of the sillier elements, like those collectible rat doodles. Yes, I get that they're supposed to symbolize his descent into madness, but they're so over-the-top that I can't see them as anything but comical; often hilarious, in fact. The act of even having collectibles throws a sort of misdirection as to what the player should prioritize; in Horror, that should be SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP WHAT IS THAT!? KILL IT WITH FIRE OR RUN UNTIL YOUR SHOES GRIND THEMSELVES TO DUST!!! Instead, I often found myself missing some of the scares, because I was in a panic not to save my own flesh, but to find that photograph, doodle, note, or whatever. Immersion was also occasionally broken for me by the writing; this is supposed to be set almost a century ago, best I can tell, but the characters' lexical features are often more modern; I'm pretty sure that "nightmare fuel" originated in this century. So why did I still enjoy Layers of Fear through to the end? The surreal elements. Some truly bizarre spectacles unfold over the course of your experience, and that was more than enough to keep me riveted. If you're looking for one of those strange Horror experiences, where you have to question how much of it was even real, this game is for you!
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