It’s because of you that certain events take place. In fact, the only real monster in the game is the one holding the controller. This game provides no combat similar to games like Outlast, SOMA, or Amnesia: The Dark Descent so that means no monsters to fight, and the few ghosts, and ghoulies that you may encounter only serve in giving you death without the possibility to escape. Bloober Team nailed it with this game despite popular belief, and I feel that they should be proud of their work. There’s quite a lot to be experienced in Layers of Fear, and fear is just the beginning. Don’t sit there and tell yourself “Oh, it’s just another stupid horror game”, because it’s not. I can become whoever the game is about, and easily put myself in their shoes. When it comes to a video game, that’s a whole different story. For me, there isn’t a single horror film out there that I’m afraid of and that’s because I can’t immerse myself into the film. I still want to finish the game, and eventually I’m sure that I will. The atmosphere in the game is enough to stress you out if you’re not careful, and if you let yourself be immersed into the game, the psychedelic nature of the horror triggers will get to you the way they did me. You want to continue to know what happens next in the game most people would label “Walking Simulator”. The story itself is gripping enough to keep you playing, or at the very least, keep you trying to play. Only this masterpiece is done with more than just paint. Layers of Fear is about an artist more specifically an anonymous painter who has seemingly lost his mind trying to create the perfect masterpiece. I decide it’s time to get up and write a review on the game because I’m too afraid to actually keep playing. It doesn’t happen.I have to face that fear and move forward. I inch forward ever slightly, looking around the room in the game, hoping that when I turn around, something will be in front of me to kill me and just end it. I pause the game again, take a sip of my coffee, and try once more. I take a few deep breaths and try to move toward the door. Whatever it is is in a rocking chair, and the maddening squeak only confirms my fear. I see a silhouette moving from inside the room that I haven’t walked in front of yet. The light goes dark, and the door to my left opens up. Books are scattered all across the floor as I keep moving, and I make it around that bend again, and this time there’s a bloody couch which has the words “Going in Circles” written on it. Until finally I make it around the wall and notice that everything’s changed. I walk around that corridor in what seems to be an endless loop, over and over again. I never finished it, now here we are in May, and I still can’t finish. I’ve spent the most of an entire month attempting to make it through this game. Layers of Fear is a psychological horror that, without you realizing it, plays on your innermost fears, and in a weird sort of way it brings them to life. To me that says this game has done its job. It’s not because I don’t want to, no, it’s because my mind won’t let me. I am mentally having a hard time moving the protagonist any further. Let it be known right now that I haven’t finished the game. (The Playable Teaser for Silent Hills) back in 2014. I’ve never played a game in my life that’s given me anxiety the way this one does, and I’ve played them all from the very first Resident Evil as a kid, to Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro’s P.T. I’m simply stating that those who’ve reviewed it and weren’t phased by this game just didn’t give it a solid chance, nor immerse themselves into it. I’m not discrediting their work by any means. I want you to take everything you’ve read or heard about this game good or bad, and those reviews from IGN and Metacritic, and various others need to be thrown out the window for a moment. Most don’t care for it, however there are some who haven’t heard of it let alone played it. Most don’t care for it, however there are some who Layers of Fear has been out for a while, and there have been plenty of reviews on the game. Layers of Fear has been out for a while, and there have been plenty of reviews on the game.
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