It isn’t only the story that feels underbaked. A level set inside crumbling Roman catacombs had me feeling wrung-out with anxiety by its heartstopping end Unfortunately, the story suffers from thinly drawn secondary characters Tasi’s maudlin relationship with Salim is a particular weak point. It’s the studio’s most emotive game, and Tasi makes for a relatable and empathetic protagonist. Already I'm considering trying some other horror games, maybe playing or maybe just watching.Frictional spin an ambitious tale that invokes body horror, cosmic horror, and themes of colonialism, as well as mental-health traumas such as bereavement and loss of sanity. Strangely, I can see the way people can get addicted to getting scared. I think I'll just watch the custom stories rather than play them. Watching someone else play it was enough for me, thank you. I'm just glad I didn't decide to try out 'La Caza' on my own. Not that I wasn't scared already! There was one part where my mouse-hand was jumping from shock, thus rendering it impossible for me to turn around and run for my life. 'La Caza' gave me a pretty good idea about how scary The Dark Descent would've been if I hadn't been reading a walkthrough. I just watched 'La Caza' while I actually played The Dark Descent. ish games, one I played and one I didn't. Period.Įrgh, this is probably making no sense right now, because I'm talking about 2. Without them I would've been completely paralyzed with terror and unable to play the game. Even with all the warnings, the game scared me. However, 'La Caza' reminds me how terrified I would've been if I hadn't been warned. I know that takes a lot out of the game, but the game still scared me quite a bit.

When I started getting stuck a lot, I just played the rest of the game while following instructions on the internet and looking at maps. Right now adrenaline is humming through my fingertips and behind my eyeballs and I'm really really tense.įor a while I was feeling some regret that I, er, 'cheated' while playing Amnesia: The Dark Descent.

So instead of playing the custom story that I heard was interesting, I just watched someone else play through it on YouTube.Īnd now I am very, very glad I didn't play it, because simply watching it was enough to terrify me. I already played one conversion mod for Amnesia: The Dark Descent (it was called 'White Night'), but I didn't want to go through the whole conversion thing again because I'm not super comfortable with it.

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