When hearing a quite in-depth description about the protagonist flaying skin in an attempt to gather resources for a taxidermic canvas, my eyes almost rolled out of my head and onto the floor. I adored the subtle horror and think that Bloober Team crafted Layers of Fear’s atmosphere masterfully, but the more abrasive and “shocking” horror I felt brought the experience down a little. I felt as though there were two different layers of horror that Layers of Fear was trying to go for (har har har) one a more subtle, atmosphere based horror found in the excessive environment shifts, and another more abrasive horror reliant on the player’s moral shock. I felt as though the game often had to explain itself to me when no explanation was necessary, breaking the otherwise thick and consistent atmosphere with written reminders of what the player can experience for themselves that felt as overly-informative and blatant as the introduction to this review. One of my biggest eye-rolling moments was when I jogged past a sofa, which had “Running in circles” written on its seat in a dirty brown font, strongly resemblant of Chiller – which you can find by quickly booting up Microsoft Word. If you strip away the significantly more excessive encounters, Layers of Fear doesn’t seem to fully blossom as a product independent of it’s inspiration. in the wake of its abrupt cancellation (thanks, Konami) and isn’t very subtle about it. It’s absolutely ridiculous, potentially symbolic of some Freudian desire to eat your five a day, but it also perfectly executes its task of derailing the player and lulling them in and out of a synthetic sense of security, creating a genuinely killer atmosphere.īut, as I mentioned earlier, Layers of Fear is amidst one of the many odes to P.T. But, my favourite aspects of the game were found in those exact unsubtle experiences, such as running from a dark, looming corridor into a warmly lit kitchen, which (after a few laps of the cooker) twists and darkens with menace before spitting an assault of vegetables at the player from the bubbling acrylic of a portrait depicting some humble fruits and veggies. Needless to say that Layers of Fear isn’t the most subtle horror title I’ve played. As the game progresses, laws of physics are defied as hallways twist and convulse into infinite tunnels of darkness, adorned by a series of often unpleasant paintings. In the spirit of P.T., the player must navigate the artist’s labyrinthian home, completely lost amidst a series of constantly changing corridors. The player follows the footsteps of a nameless artist gradually losing his grip on sanity as he embarks on a surprisingly troublesome venture to complete his Magnum Opus, dropping hints on his own character and revealing secrets about his past along the way in a beautiful, but severely twisted, early-20th century mansion.Īmidst the various categorizations Bloober Team filed Layers of Fear under, I feel “psychedelic” is the most exciting. If you look into the mirror at 1:14, something is in there.Layers of Fear is described by developers Bloober Team as a “psychological and psychedelic adventure horror game” and I don’t think I could put it any better myself. I do have one thing I'm not sure about though. I think that all of those things were used to make his paint that is shown in the trailer. In the first game, you run around collecting items: Bone, hair, blood, eye, finger, and skin. He also says "What are you doing here, my beloved," which also makes me think that we are still looking through the mind of the painter. He is still driven insane and has hallucinations. This shows that the painter never truly got the chance to leave the mansion, even if he realized what he did was wrong. Through out the video, there is a feminine voice in the background, who I think is the wife because shes the only character who was canonly dead, while the daughter got taken away. There is a painting canvas with red cloth on it too. When the trailer starts, we are seen to be in the first person point of view of what I assume to be the painter from the first game. This morning, Bloober Team announced that there will be a Layers of Fear 3 game released soon! So, I decided to analyze the trailer, and see what kind of theory's I can come up with.
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