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Probably because relying on that mechanic for the rest of the game would have been too tedious, and I understand that, but it makes the game’s rules feel arbitrary and frustrating.Ĭombine this with the fact that if you get unlucky and the Shovel Man catches you, you have 2 chances to escape. It’s a cool mechanic that’s inconsistently used. Not being chased by anything? Then run all you like, the sky’s the limit, no matter how low your health. However, this only matters when you’re being chased. This makes keeping your health bar high a major priority, avoiding all damage if you can, because you will need to run for as long as possible when trying to escape. Directly tying health into physical ability makes sense in a game like this. Which is really interesting, and I like how that was handled. Lose health due to tripping on rocks, getting swarmed by bats, whatever, and you will have less stamina to use when you need to run away. Your health bar is also your stamina bar. This is made difficult, though, by a mechanic I have mixed feelings over: stamina. Do this properly and he’ll leave you alone. Under tipped mine carts, behind a curtain, under a bed, anything. Getting far enough ahead won’t save you you have to hide. He chases you, meaning you have to run away from him.

…Okay.Īnyway, the biggest threats are from those two characters, but really, it’s the Shovel Man you’ll need to be concerned with most. He shows up a couple of times, suggests he knows Arisa, kidnaps someone… and then vanishes and isn’t heard from again. Maybe info about him was in some document that I missed, but if the only explanation for a character who plays an active part in the story is in an easily-missed book or piece of paper, then that’s some flimsy storytelling right there. The game’s biggest threat are the Shovel Man, and some guy in a red cloak that, at least when I played through it, didn’t actually get explained at all, leaving me a bit baffled as to what was even going on with him.

With that, it seems like it could have the makings of a really good game, one of those underappreciated gems that languished in obscurity thanks to a bad release schedule or something like that. As the game goes on, you explore more of the caves, the mansion, and a nearby abandoned hospital, trying to find a way for you and your friends to leave the area and to escape the Shovel Man. (Seriously, a surprising number of J-horror games involve cave systems underneath mansions.) In attempting to escape, she encounters a large angry man wielding a shovel, who attacks and chases her. While inside, the floor gives way and Arisa falls into a system of caves and mines below the mansion, because Japan. The fairly short game (you can beat it in around 3 hours, give or take) centres around Arisa, a Japanese exchange student in an American school, who gets convinced to explore a creepy mansion with lots of rumours surrounding it, as part of her friend Bob’s video channel. It would be easy to blame this on the graphics, which intentionally don’t put much focus on realism but prefer to take a more artistic and stylized approach (which still looks gorgeous, by the way I’m not knocking it for its art style), but I’ve played games that look worse than this and yet come across as more unnerving.

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Creeping Terror, which has seemingly no relation to the 1964 movie The Creeping Terror, isn’t really a horror game that’s actively scary, but more of a game that’s occasionally tense. Turns out I didn’t need to gather so much courage in the end. (Hey, nothing in the rules saying that I can’t both enjoy and be terrified by something.) So upon discovering a little game called Creeping Terror, and seeing the game’s teaser image, it was one that I decided I was going to gather my courage for and start playing. I’m a big fan of East Asian horror, even if I’m also simultaneously a bit of a wuss about such games and movies.