![]() ![]() Watching the abode fall apart alongside you is a visual treat, as well as helping to personify the painter’s current ordeal.Īnd if that wasn’t enough, it’s actually the paintings themselves that become the real star of this scarefest. As blood seeps through the walls and torture contraptions appear within the vicinity, it becomes clear that the house is just as much of a character as you are. This goes one step further, as the dwelling reflects the illustrator’s descent into chaos, with the house in the later chapters being the biggest highlight. It’s unnerving but fascinating to watch in motion, as a quick turn of the camera can render the room you’re in as non-existent while an entirely new landscape is painted in front of you. The whole house shape-shifts before your eyes, entire rooms come and go, and objects move with a mind of their own. There’s terrors here that we haven’t seen in any other game before and because of that, it becomes a genuinely scary title to play.Ĭoupled with this is the fact that you’ll never actually leave the confines of the mansion, but this is used to the game’s advantage. Unique set-pieces frighten the life out of you, while gory imagery keeps you on edge the entire time. Of course, there’s the typical but successful jump scares that might cause you to drop your Switch once or twice in fear, but then so many more creative techniques are employed to really rack up the tension. If Bloober Team was looking to create its own masterpiece, then its magnum opus has been created thanks to the sheer variety of scares and bumps in the dark found in LOF:L. It’s a solid driving force that twists and turns through the whole experience, but it also offers itself as an excellent catalyst to the scares. ![]() It’s a genuinely interesting tale that is sure to catch you off your guard upon some revelations, with collectibles providing further backstory and details you won’t want to miss out on. ![]() Alongside the creation of the artisan’s crowning achievement, which is done in stages at the end of each chapter, you’ll explore what made him the man he is in the present. The bulk of the story is contained within the painter’s past, and what a gruesome but fascinating trip down memory lane it is. You’ll play out these vivid visions as they explore the artist’s relationship with his wife, their daughter, the decaying of talent, and the slow descent into madness. But after completing the first layer, he starts to have hallucinations of his past and the events that shaped who he is today. You play as an unnamed painter, who after a court hearing, returns to his empty Victorian mansion to begin work on his very own magnum opus. So, does this one buck the trend and provide a horrifying experience that we’d think twice about getting tucked up under the covers with? Thankfully, it’s a resounding yes. Next, up steps Layers Of Fear: Legacy, a port of a title from 2016 that has been re-built to take advantage of the Nintendo hybrid. Don’t Knock Twice was less than thrilling, and Perception is something we’d rather forget about. The horror genre hasn’t had the best of starts when it comes to the Nintendo Switch. ![]()
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