Date played: August 14th
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 10/10
P.T. scared me the living shit out of me and my brother.
It's a playable teaser (hence the acronym) for a horror game. It turns out it's for Silent Hills, a sort of reboot of the series by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro. The teaser does a great job of being mysterious and scary, making it exciting to try out the final game.
The teaser is played from the first person perspective and takes place entirely in a single corridor and bathroom. The trick is that there is a door at the end of the corridor that loops you back to the beginning of it, where things are always slightly different than the last time. There are no weapons and your actions are limited to a zoom function and a single button press in a specific sequence.
What makes this brilliant is the incredible atmosphere. The audio design was particularly impressive. More than once, I stopped in my tracks because of a weird sound. The graphics are also very pretty and detailed. Of course, being a horror game means a lot of the visuals are dark, disgusting and chilling. There are small puzzles to solve, but this is mostly just a corridor where stuff "happens" to the player. Highlights include the bathroom door, a ghost that disappeared quickly, a broken window, a creepy radio broadcast, a man in the window, a bloodied fridge swung by....something, a wailing deformed baby dying in a sink and the scariest fucking jump scare in the history of video games. Oh yeah, also, a fucking clock. Fuck you clock. Fuck you.
I think this is a really cool way to announce a game and I hope more devs steal this idea.
Platform: PS4
Session fun rating: 10/10
P.T. scared me the living shit out of me and my brother.
It's a playable teaser (hence the acronym) for a horror game. It turns out it's for Silent Hills, a sort of reboot of the series by Hideo Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro. The teaser does a great job of being mysterious and scary, making it exciting to try out the final game.
The teaser is played from the first person perspective and takes place entirely in a single corridor and bathroom. The trick is that there is a door at the end of the corridor that loops you back to the beginning of it, where things are always slightly different than the last time. There are no weapons and your actions are limited to a zoom function and a single button press in a specific sequence.
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I think this is a really cool way to announce a game and I hope more devs steal this idea.
