However, there’s more than just darkness out in the streets of the suburbs, so you’ll have to avoid various monsters in your quest to reunite with your sister.ĭo you remember what it was like to be afraid of the dark? Your eyes make shapes of the shadows, to the point where you’d be almost certain that a dark presence lurks under the bed, or that a veiled figure loomed over you. That’s all the instruction you get from the beginning, leaving you to explore the town for clues as to where they may be.
You’re tasked with setting out into the night to find both your lost pet and your sister You play as an unnamed little schoolgirl who, after losing her dog, then has her sister go missing. Not directly, of course, but through the course of the tutorial, it makes you responsible, you monster. Yomawari starts off by having you kill your dog. Originally released on the Playstation Vita, it gained enough of a following that it made its way to PC, PS4, and now, the Switch.įeel good about yourself? AFRAID OF THE DARK Even for games that don’t chill my bones, they usually have some sort of message beneath the slippery gore that make them worthwhile experiences. Alien Isolation was probably the most stressful and frightening game I’ve played in years, and I attribute that largely to its hard to predict AI. With that kind of security, horror games have lost their edge for me
I’m not trying to brag, I’m nothing special, but I’ve at least learned that I’m capable of comfortably reaching the end of modern single-player games, and that’s enough to undermine the horror. These days, however, I’m too confident in my capabilities in video games and too analytical of gameplay mechanics to the point where the seams show and I can predict how things are going to work.
Heck, I remember dealing with frequent nightmares after the release of the Gamecube remake of the original game in the series. Back in my younger days, I was easily frightened by the Resident Evil series. I’m not so sure about horror games, anymore.