It has a very concise plot, but the bits it does show you are chosen so well. If it had more moving parts, it’d just get lost. The plot’s the best example, you only get little tastes of it every once in a while, mostly when you’re talking to your save point or when you find a journal, but I think that’s really what makes the bomb it drops at the end so effective. I think that’s really one of the strongest points of this game, how minimal it was throughout. I think that’s a good point, people underestimate minimalism. Have you played or seen The Witch’s House? What did you think of it? Was it holy shit haunting for you, too? Did you enjoy the JRPG/sprite aesthetic and how that was juxtaposed with its horror motif? Let’s discuss in the comments!
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I also believe this game is free, so you only have your time to spend on something that might not outwardly scare you as much as it did me, but will crawl beneath your skin and make you rethink your every move. I was able to do the latter in a day, since Cry’s Let’s Play is only five videos, and I can’t imagine playing it yourself would take much longer (though I suppose you’d have to factor in the number of deaths). While many might not be overly impressed with the simplistic, sprite graphics (though I still prefer the sprite aesthetic tbh and kind of wish FFVII had utilized them while keeping the FMVs), the ingenious and terrifying twist makes this a game worth your while to play or watch. It’s not only horrifying, it’s heartbreaking, and there’s a major clue to what’s really going on right at the start of the puzzle. It makes you reexamine everything that’s happened from start to finish and could possibly prompt a replay to experience it with the knowledge garnered at the close. I’ve never seen any story (game of other wise) with this kind of plot twist, and it twists hard like a rusty knife. There are plenty, and besides that, the jump scares and creepy atmosphere are only the surface of ‘what’s wrong” with this game.Įverything culminates in the ending, which will haunt you long after you’ve moved onto something else. While it may seem like I’m giving away some of the scare moments, I’m really not.
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A slight movement of a suit of armor, a brief shadow in the corner, blood drops and footprints appearing on a wall.ĭespite having the mien and aesthetic of a second generation systems’ sprite based game, The Witch’s House still manages to create an utterly eerie environment where doom waits around any and every corner, manifesting in something as seemingly innocuous as a pool full of tadpoles. Honestly, the biggest scares are what you either don’t or half see. Your instinct to explore and check everything is not rewarded by any means, unless you enjoy that bloody death screen plastered onto your retinas. While The Witch’s House looks like a JRPG, it is not a JRPG. Locked doors are opened not with keys, but with solving puzzles, and your “save point” follows you in the form of the black cat who warned at the beginning that “this place isn’t safe for humans.” However, since the path out of the forest is blocked by a gigantic rosebush that’s impervious to clippers, there’s no other direction to go.
The titular house’s nature shifts and twists as the main character navigates through it with only the cryptic “Come to my room” message to guide her. I decided to watch it after reading Lost in the Aether’s review (linked above), and I chose Cry as the LPer, because he’s not only hilarious, but his reactions are utterly organic, un-contrived, and exactly as I would react.
This screen will become all too familiar.
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