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Although Kotaku editor John Walker would “undoubtedly” suggest 2010 survival horror Amnesia, he can’t overlook how two scenes made him really feel.
“The primary is that this scene early on the place you stroll down some bland hall, and it ends in a collapse the place the ceiling’s fallen in,” he DMed me. “So that you simply suppose, ‘Ah nicely, useless finish,’ and switch round to return.
However as you’re turning round, for a fraction of a second, some hideous visage seems within the hall forward of you. It’s gone earlier than you may actually register when you noticed it or not, and it scared the shit out of me.” John’s messages affirm which you could inform a scary story over a platform as austere as Slack
Then, there’s the invisible monster that cements Amnesia as proudly owning what John calls the “scariest little bit of recreation, aside from Thief 3, I’ve ever performed.”
“You’re on this flooded hallway, and there are tables and chairs strewn throughout the ground, however you may hear these footsteps,” he stated. “In case you contact the water in any respect, they all of the sudden pace up and get louder, as one thing comes crashing towards you. However there’s nothing there!”
And then you definately see the splashes within the water the place its ft should be! And also you scramble, scramble, to stand up on a desk and out of the water. It’s a kind of moments that makes me lean in till my face is touching the monitor in my efforts to extra shortly transfer ahead and climb up, my coronary heart racing, sheer panic making my fingers battle to function the mouse and keyboard.”
