Hopefully a patch will fix this on consoles, and I’m sure it’s not even an issue for more powerful PCs. The framerate struggles to keep up with your movements as you look around which resulted in me feeling rather nauseous. From the minute you load up the game, it’s jittery as hell. Textures and environments are nothing short of gorgeous – but unfortunately it comes at a price. Graphically, a lot of care and attention has gone into making this house seem as realistic and believable as possible. The first thing that struck me about Layers of Fear is just how pretty it looks. The end of each “chapter” in the game is marked by a particular picture being added to the end product being revealed at the end of the game. The story is bolstered with a theme of art and painting it’s apparent early on that the protagonist – you – is an artist, or was an artist. It pays to explore as much as you can – if you’re brave enough – as the underlying narrative is worth paying attention to, and if you don’t do much straying from the beaten path you’ll probably be left more confused come the end of the game. LAYERS OF FEAR PT SERIESThere’s a wealth of objects around the house to interact with – cupboards to open, drawers to siphon through – but there’s nothing you can actually use, apart from a series of letters and documents that upon finding, will gradually unravel the story of Layers of Fear. As per any “walking simulator” of recent times, you’re given no direction, so naturally your instinct tells you to go poking your nose into everything you possibly can. On starting the game you’re subjected to a short and suspicious-sounding voiceover, before being thrown into the entrance of a seemingly empty – and instantly eerie – mansion, with the roaring sound of thunder rolling outside. But more than anything, it just goes to show that you should never judge a book by its cover and first impressions aren’t always accurate Layers of Fear is quite an achievement that has certainly made us consider this developer in a whole new light. Their previous titles, Basement Crawl and Brawl, were not exactly resounding successes and as Bomberman clones, are worlds apart from Layers of Fear. Just like we’d said when we previewed this game back in September last year, we were surprised to see such a mature horror title come from a relatively unknown developer as Bloober Team. Enter Bloober Team’s Layers of Fear, a psychological trip with a disturbed artist through a very freaky mansion. Layers of Fear Since P.T.’s very brief life in late 2014/early 2015, there’s been a resurgence of meandering psychological horror games.Īlthough little more than a looping corridor filled with gratuitous jump scares and disturbing noises, P.T.‘s innate levels of terror somehow captured the imaginations of a generation and now lots of developers want to get in on the action.
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