Here's another post to play into the Halloween atmosphere.
Been playing a so-far lovely horror game for the past few days. I was in the mood for horror and since this one came out earlier this month and since I finished off my last horror game a little while ago I was out of excuses to give this one a go.
It's been a blast and is, again: so far, a definite improvement on the first installment. It's still at times annoyingly clunky, just like that one, but that is mostly counteracted by being immensely gratifying whenever you pull off something difficult. And still in story at least, Within 1 is yet the better one. But that is so far as I'm still only at chapter 5, playing on Nightmare (hard) mode, because why not? it's survival horror, baby.
Be warned, graphic violence and shocking horror to the march of incompetent gameplay ahead.
Also, please note, at times it can be genuinely disturbing.
First encounter
The sequel also isn't as linear as the first game, with the story actually incorporating more open areas filled with random encounters and even a few side quests that let you scrounge some much needed supplies or even an occasional new weapon.
The danger doesn't always come from zombies, or whatever they are, either
There are also instances of haunting and ginormous chainsaw-wielding monstrosities
And if the game doesn't give the usual suspects, it sometimes does things that are just plain inspired
Or just does its own thing and experiments, here, where the game briefly allows you into a first-person perspective that didn't feel forced or unnecessary. I'm hoping for some more to be honest.
Here is, in two parts, my first fight with the first boss in the game.
Not that spoilery as I'm not sure that this thing has much background.
It's one of those things where the first game, so far, wins out.
But then, I'm pretty sure that the tank-monster in the underground parking lot didn't have much background either.
And before this fight we are introduced to, of all things, a techno-horror mash-up between a camera and black tentacles that hangs in the sky that looks a bit like Lovecraft's daddy-Outer-God Azatoth.
Tell me that isn't what that looks like.
Also, note the small print there. I'm loving the winks to mythology.
Asmodeus, biblical demon prince of lust (according to some sources, canonical or not).
And I'll leave you with some funny stuff, to show that the game doesn't always take itself as serious as might be expected.
Fuck that, indeed.
See you around and have a happy and fun Halloween!
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