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ETA 7/3: this game was kicking around in my brain this morning still so i ended up doing some light research to find out more about it. i realized that it's story is based on the horrific real life murder of a child, which casts the entirety of the game in a strange, uncomfortable and frankly unwelcome light. hindsight is 20/20-- the entire game is a flurry of ideas from other developers, pop culture, and horror tropes implemented shakily at best, or just outright boring at worst. no wonder they had to outsource the plot. it's a shame: i don't dislike the presentation of this game.
the list of pros is pretty short: there's a no jump scare mode, which is pretty funny because it means the developer knows the jump scares are largely worthless in their own game. a well executed jump scare pays off for the writer and the audience, and having a random BOO! in the middle of your gameplay loop is certainly a decision, and one that the developer was clearly aware they made. the cons list is nearly endless, though the crux of them all can be summarized easily: everything here has been done by someone else, and better. the microphone aspect doesn't work; you can yell into it and not have any response, for some reason. the child in the yellow rain coat is a horror trope that's been codified by other horror media the world over. the atmosphere is a ghost of other key hunt games (read: asset flips) from steam that cost $1.99. outlast and amnesia perfected the "hide from a monster" haunted house simulator style of gameplay, and this adds nothing to it. the VHS clips at the beginning are a shadow of kane pixel's short film. the experience was annoying, bottom line, and hampered further by the back story.
definitely recommend passing this up, because it's a waste of your time.
ETA 7/3: this game was kicking around in my brain this morning still so i ended up doing some light research to find out more about it. i realized that it's story is based on the horrific real life murder of a child, which casts the entirety of the game in a strange, uncomfortable and frankly unwelcome light. hindsight is 20/20-- the entire game is a flurry of ideas from other developers, pop culture, and horror tropes implemented shakily at best, or just outright boring at worst. no wonder they had to outsource the plot. it's a shame: i don't dislike the presentation of this game.
the list of pros is pretty short: there's a no jump scare mode, which is pretty funny because it means the developer knows the jump scares are largely worthless in their own game. a well executed jump scare pays off for the writer and the audience, and having a random BOO! in the middle of your gameplay loop is certainly a decision, and one that the developer was clearly aware they made. the cons list is nearly endless, though the crux of them all can be summarized easily: everything here has been done by someone else, and better. the microphone aspect doesn't work; you can yell into it and not have any response, for some reason. the child in the yellow rain coat is a horror trope that's been codified by other horror media the world over. the atmosphere is a ghost of other key hunt games (read: asset flips) from steam that cost $1.99. outlast and amnesia perfected the "hide from a monster" haunted house simulator style of gameplay, and this adds nothing to it. the VHS clips at the beginning are a shadow of kane pixel's short film. the experience was annoying, bottom line, and hampered further by the back story.
definitely recommend passing this up, because it's a waste of your time.