By now I was playing as cautiously as possible. That’s about when I realized that the events were being triggered by an AI and that I couldn’t try to out-predict what would happen and where.
Each time I passed by, thinking that the game was done trying to scare me in the stairwell a new effect would come out or a previous effect would return. But whenever I was most prepared, nothing would happen. I started going into the stairwell as prepared as possible, ready for anything. These effects were new and had no accompanying tutorial text to solve them, but still required unique ways of escape while blocking usage of the map. There was even one stairwell that activated 3 unique, one-time-only effects at different times that made me feel like there were in-game flags placed at that location to scare me. When the game started throwing in random new mechanics I started to panic, worrying some mistake on my part would kill him off. The more progress I made, the more I worried that my time with him was almost up. I now found myself, again, attached to a character going into a new chapter. But the more I played through the second chapter with him and the more he referenced his version of events from chapter 1, the more attached I grew. I chose the same character this time around because he was expendable to me. Making sure that I only made the most important decisions without leaving anything to chance, I was more cautious than ever before. When I finished the chapter, it felt like an accomplishment. I was able to finish the chapter, but walking through the house was more nerve-wracking than ever before. Playing as this last character was tense, worrying that hours of gameplay would be wasted heightened my sense of dread like no other horror game in recent years.
I considered restarting but chose to continue with the last character because I felt I was close to the end of the chapter. Then my second and third characters died and i was forced to play as the last character left or restart the game. I instantly force-quit the game hoping that my decisions aren’t saved before a cutscene ends but it was too late. I went into the game blind without knowing and had my favorite character die. The addition of permadeth is difficult but handled well. Inspired by Resident Evil and Silent Hill and it shows.
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