still can’t believe I slept on this (but exceedingly glad I was resolved to wait to play it in VR). the horror arc is so good! the progression from “ahhhh!!! ahhhh!! goddammit!!!” ahhhh!!!" to “OK. Fuck. You know what? I am going to kill these fucking people and burn down their fucking house if it’s the last thing I do” is like perfectly paced.
this new team is the real truth, of every major Japanese franchise resurgence this is way up there
every trope is so delightful and that does not just happen
really want to watch someone play this fresh in Branson
As our resident PT guinea pig, I’ll do it
You’ll have to catch me before/after doing Birdman ~Wings of Fate~ Talkie Edition though
Did you get the leg scene?
why did we think this was a good idea
no horror will top this
nope I’m just a little past getting the flamethrower
I’m doing my usual thing with fairly intense games where I feel like I’m going hard and am actually playing all of half an hour a night
I want to emphasize though that if you’d told me a day ago that there even was a flamethrower I’d have gone “no way! really! cool!” because something about the presentation is making every single “oh yeah of course we packed that” feel fresh
It’s really early in the game, but only in specific circumstances. I can’t imagine what it’s like in VR.
like I said a little ways up, I have like polar opposite reactions to body horror and gore (which mostly just make me grin) and quiet creepy tension (which immediately puts me in a state of pure terror) so it’d probably have been lost on me
still that seems like a very good mixture to keep me enjoying this without being overwhelmed
I got the leg scene…
If I remember correctly, toward the beginning of the game when the dad is chasing you around, if he catches you he cuts your leg off, then sits there watching while you crawl back to it and pick it up (it goes in your inventory) and then you have to use the leg as an item to reattach it.
Did I remember that right? It was a pretty effective moment.
Yeah, it owns. The only part I don’t like it is it made me think that was going to be a mechanic
Felix play Alien Isolation.
I have the gotten the snake key
I’m guessing I’m just past halfway?
so so so good
also very pleased that the first family member the game lets you believe you’ve killed for real (here’s hoping) was the one responsible for every time I actually screamed while playing
Thanks for that
Now back to regular “I have no ammo oh no” resident evil
in addition to everything else that’s tonally perfect in this, the protagonist is a lot of fun
the right combination of “somehow low key in an impossible nightmare scenario” and “properly relieved after being terrified through intense fights” and kind of funny
goodness even the ACTION PACKED FREE BONUS EPILOGUE CHAPTER STARRING CHRIS REDFIELD is pretty neat huh
I hope they start promoting this game as like PSVR greatest hits or something now that the headsets have a bigger install base
they really played themselves/sony making the arguably the best crafted longest lasting deep thing be an immediately revolting dread marathon
yeah, no kidding. as much as people complained that it sort of loses its edge in the later chapters when it turns into, like, Soma by way of Ringu, I was actually finding it harder and harder to push through the tension. not sure if it’s somehow specific to the VR experience or if I found the old house comforting in a certain way that I missed or my nerves were just shredded by the end (after more than two weeks of limping through while interspersing almost every other PSVR game I’d wanted to play) but I am pleased to report it did not get any less scary for me.
Speaking of Soma I guess it’s been a pretty strong console generation for horror – I’ll still vouch for Until Dawn being a ton of fun and I liked Observer more than most – but this has got to be the scariest thing I’ve run through in any medium in terms of its overall effect on me since I was like, 13.
how did you feel about alien isolation?
did not play
hmmmm
You can VR shim it together on PC if you’d like (they demoed with VR but never officially shipped it). Both it and RE7 feel like big-budget adaptations of the Amnesia learnings, RE7 mixing in pulpy stuff while Isolation iterates on the ‘chase monster’ design. I like Isolation a lot a lot; the set dressing is immaculate and the monster inspires hate as much as terror in a very Ripley-esque way.
It takes a long while to get into it and it goes on longer than it needs to but it’s just great all the time.